In 1900 after Goddin Inn burned, the Goddin family decided not to rebuild the old inn that stood south of Seneca Road before the Civil War. In 1913 Edna and Guy Kump bought the old inn site on 11 acres of land along Goddin Creek between Seneca Road and the railroad track, where they would have a family farm and their children would learn to garden and care for animals.

During 1924 and 2025 the Kumps lived in Edna’s grandparents’ home known as the “Logan House” in Beverly while Mr. Whiteman built their Elkins home with a driveway opening onto Randolph Avenue. The new house would be big enough for six Kump children and several cousins.

The family moved into their new house in the fall of 1925 and began developing the farm. Edna was focused on the house, but Guy thought the barn was more important to provide food for the family. He said, “The Barn keeps the house.” However, she said, “The House keeps the barn.”

The Kump children became active in 4-H, and they all helped care for the house and the farm animals. They especially loved to ride horses and ponies on the farm.

By the time H.G. Kump was elected Governor in 1932, the garden grew vegetables near the barn, and the hillside orchard was full of apple trees.

There was a chicken house, as well as a pig pen, and smoke house. Fences surrounded the whole property allowing cows and horses to enjoy the south pasture all the way up to the train tracks.

In 1937 at the end of his term as governor, H.G. Kump permitted the state road commission (that he had established) to build Rt. 33 directly through the middle of his 11-acre farm. It was the best path for the highway, but Hazel K. Burford, the first Kump grandchild, remembered seeing her grandmother cry all day when the excavation began.

After H.G. Kump died in 1962 the Kumps sold the pasture land south of Rt. 33 back to the Goddin family and commercial development began. The West Virginia road commission got an easement to drain water through Kump land and back under Randolph Avenue. New businesses cut steep banks into the hillside pasture, and parking lots were paved with blacktop.

Now a culvert leads draining water under the busy intersection to the Kroger parking lot, where the large culvert makes a sharp left turn southward under 11th Street. On the McDonald’s side of 11th Street, the culvert turns right and goes west to the Tygart Valley River.

When enough brush becomes trapped in one of the culvert corners, the water backs up and floods in the deeply eroded Kump pasture where cows and horses once grazed in days of yore. The animals had to be removed.