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== History == Crab Orchard is famous, historically, as the town in which [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[Robert Byrd]] organized a chapter for the [[Ku Klux Klan]]. After Byrd had collected the $10 joining fee and $3 charge for a robe and hood from every applicant, the [[Grand Dragon]] [[Joel L. Baskin]] for the mid-Atlantic states came down to Crab Orchard, to officially organize the chapter... ''"When it came time to choose the [[Exalted Cyclops]], the top officer in the local Klan unit, Byrd won unanimously."''<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/18/AR2005061801105_pf.html A Senator's Shame]</ref> Crab Orchard was named for the many crab apple trees near the original town site.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kenny|first=Hamill|title=West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains|url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015009099824;view=1up;seq=217|year=1945|publisher=The Place Name Press|location=Piedmont, WV|page=189}}</ref>
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