On Buffalo Creek in Kenova, West Virginia sits an old, brick, abandoned building. The two stories of broken windows and crumbling inner foundation that were once home to the proud Buffalo Bison, are now a home to stray cats, birds, and creepy spiders. Buffalo High School is known to many Wayne County residents as a place that they attended, friends attended, or came to as rivals at football games. As a younger Bison at the grade schools, I can recall sitting on the wooden bleachers by the field, gazing at the high school and wondering what it would be like to walk the same halls as my mother. One day, I noticed a log had been thrown through the glass door and shattered it into a million pieces. Curiosity and adventure kicked in and I couldn’t let the opportunity slip by. Toppled over desks, scattered papers, graffiti, broken tiles, caving ceilings, and pure disappointment was all I found. The school had become a waste of space, a hazard, and ruined from lack of TLC.
“It’s such a shame,” Kim Stewart said, “to see the place I spent six years of my life being treated this way.” Kim, my mom, graduated in the class of 1981 from that very school. When she went there, the middle school and high school were combined into one, so it was very crowded having grades 7-12 in the same place. In some…show more content… He recalls the rivalry between Buffalo, Vinson, and CK (Ironic that we consolidated into one student body). My whole life I have heard stories being shared with the family about how my uncle and his older friends would mess with my mom at school. “I hate that I can’t take my kids back and show them the inside of the school. I would love to have the chance to do that.” He feels that its current state is beyond restoration. He plans to visit next time he is in town to take pictures of the outside, for fear that it will just be demolished
