Ferrellsburg is an unincorporated community in southern Lincoln County, West Virginia, United States.

Captain Henry Farley, a veteran of the Revolutionary War and resident of Montgomery County, Virginia, was the first known Anglo visitor to present-day Ferrellsburg.

In June 1792, Captain Farley passed through the area while pursuing a Native American war party that had raided Virginia settlements at Bluestone River.

According to family tradition, the Adkins slaves lived in one-room plank dwellings situated near the Guyandotte River at the approximate location of the Bruce Thompson barn-Pat Kirk residence.

[4] In 1873, Hezekiah "Carr" Adkins, youngest son of Elias, acquired the bulk of the family property.

In the early 1880s, Jackson and Rachel Spurlock commenced a civil suit against Elias Adkins' estate regarding a debt.

In 1896 and 1897, Keenan and Arena Ferrell bought the Adkins home place from John Q. Adams, as well as 119 adjacent acres from Jacob K.

The Ferrells also raised Lula Vance, a local orphan who they later disinherited due to their disfavor of her choice in a spouse.

Ferrellsburg was established on December 27, 1904, by George W. Ferrell, who served as the community's postmaster until January 23, 1906, illness forced him to retire.

"[9] In 1910, Arena constructed her last will and testament, which granted to Altizer all of her personal property, money, and residence on 7th Avenue.

Keenan Ferrell, husband to Arena, would receive the farm at Ferrellsburg, which would, upon his death, pass to Altizer.

According to newspaper accounts of the time, Stowers was president of the stockholders in the Burns Chair Factory and considered attending medical school in Louisville.

[18] The Adkins brothers operated a store at the location until 1920, when they bestowed the property to Dr. Robert R. Vaughan, a nonresident company doctor in the Logan County coalfields.

[19] Dr. Vaughn briefly bestowed the property to Martha Fowler before it was placed in the hands of Jacob D. Smith, trustee.

Adkins, merchant at Harts, along with Coon Tomblin, met Walter Farris at the Ferrellsburg train stop near the Stowers store.

At the time, Farris, a resident of Piney Fork, was relocating to the Logan County coalfields.

Walter Farris was pardoned by the governor, John J. Cornwell, in April, 1919, due to extenuating circumstances of the case.

On April 23, 1921, Albert "Ab" Messer murdered Isaac "Ike" Dean on the porch of Emery Mullins' house in the upper section of Douglas Branch.

[23] Following Walt Stowers' death in 1934, his widow Georgia ceased operation of their store and began to sell their property.

That same year, Georgia Stowers rebought most of the property from Isaacs, then almost immediately sold it to Ola Adkins.

By 1939, Georgia Stowers had relocated to Huntington, having sold some of her remaining property to sister Kizzie Dean.

[25] In 1927, merchant Walt Stowers sold one acre of land to the Harts Creek District Board of Education for $850.

According to the deed, Stowers agreed to remove a log barn located near the premises, while the board promised to build a fence around their acre.

The Low Gap United Baptist Church, established in 1898, originally served the Ferrellsburg community and the lower region of Harts Creek.

Kirk's Grocery, the longest-running and last-surviving general store in Harts Creek District, is located in Ferrellsburg.