Rosbys Rock
 Photos by Carl E. Feather

Robert M. Sullivan and his daughter Sarah stand atop Rosby's Rock, which is a short distance west of their home along the former railbed of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Access to the top of the rock is by a pair of crude stairs behind the rock.

THe Marshall County, W.Va., town of Rosbys Rock was once a prosperous community along the B&O Railroad. It gets its name from the inscription on the huge boulder a short distance up the railroad grade from the town. It was there that the B&O Railroad's east and west sections met Dec. 24, 1852.

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Robert Sullivan stands near one of the signs he posted along the road to Rosbey's Rock. He doesn't mind tourists looking at the rock, but Bob, who lives down the former railroad grade, resents the intrusion of ATVs.
Robert M. Sullivan and his daughter Sarah sit atop Rosby's Rock. There is a lot of disagreement on how the town's name should be spelled; Roseby was a B&O Railroad official, but stone cutters misspelled his name. Officially, it's Rosbys Rock, but there's no explanation of how the "e" got dropped or why the stone cutters put two "b"s in his name on the rock.