We are amassing a rather impressive collection of pictures of Mannington, WV, and the buildings there. If you need something specific, please email bethanne at 1632andbeyond dot com and ask.
Not all of the photos will be shared here. We have screen shots from real estate websites for homes that have been claimed for various characters. If you are using those characters, we are happy to share them with you or to check them for details you might need, but even though they were publicly available and are from prior owners, we are simply choosing not to share interior shots from private homes. We are also choosing not to share all the interior shots from churches and businesses. As stated, we have them for reference, upon request. For example, one author wrote a characters shoes were clicking on the floor upon entering Leahy. When we checked the photos, they confirmed that area is carpeted, so that detail was corrected.
As it has been over twenty years since the original novel was published, things are starting to diverge fairly significantly. That’s why this photo archive is so very important for our universe.
In addition to Mannington, we have photos Eric and his wife Lucille took in Germany of the area near where Grantville ended up, as well as some other areas of interest.