Seebert is an unincorporated community in Pocahontas County

 

Seebert is an unincorporated community in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States. It is located on the Greenbrier River, 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Hillsboro. The community was most likely named after the local Seebert family

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. One notable historical site in Seebert is the Seebert Lane Colored School, also known as Pleasant Green School and Hillsboro School. It is a historic one-room school for African-American students that was built around 1898

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. In 1921, the children of Seebert Lane Colored School were photo documented by Lewis W. Hine as part of his work with the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC)

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. The school likely stopped operating after desegregation in 1954

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. Another aspect of Seebert's history is the growth of a separatist African-American community in the area. The rise of the Ku Klux Klan in southern West Virginia and the implementation of Jim Crow laws led this group to create their own self-sustaining community in Pocahontas County

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. They learned to farm the land, attended the African Methodist Episcopal Church that they founded, and worked to provide for their needs

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. This Black separatist community offered an opportunity to own land and succeed together free of segregation and racial strife

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. During the railroad days, Seebert was a more bustling community with a depot, post office, several stores, a gas station, and churches

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. A ferry was introduced to Seebert in the early 1930s

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