Crowds of young folks enjoyed the first ice skating of the winter on the sand pit pond just north of town during the afternoons and evenings.   Skating was also good on the frozen ponds in the oil fields north of the city, where many kids enjoyed the smooth ice. In 1919, the Herald Star reported crowds skating each afternoon and evening on frozen unsafe deep water at the mouth of Cross Creek.

Workers of the Steubenville Sand & Gravel Co. north of Follansbee. Note the sand in the railroad cars in the background.  Photo courtesy of Brooke County Genealogy Society.

• Steubenville Herald Star, “Follansbee,” December 27, 1915, p. 4.
• Mill Towns Review, “Bobsledding is the Rage,” January 27, 1915, front page.
• Steubenville Herald Star, “Follansbee – Skating on Cross Creek,” December 17, 1919, p. 15.