Big Creek High School was a Grade 9 through 12 public high school located in War, West Virginia. It was operated by the McDowell County Schools and governed by the McDowell County Board of Education.

WAR, W.Va. — The walls of Big Creek High School, which spawned Homer Hickam’s mining-town stories of childhood friends obsessed with rocket-building, will be coming down soon. Demolition for ...

WAR — The State Fire Marshal’s office is investigating a fire of unknown origin that destroyed much of the former Big Creek High School building on Friday, according to West Virginia State Police.

WAR, W.Va. — More than three dozen volunteer firefighters in McDowell County expected to be on the scene for most of the day Friday battling a blaze moving through old Big Creek High School in War.

Media outlets report that firefighters from five volunteer fire departments battled the blaze Friday morning at the Old Big Creek High School in War. The West Virginia State Police and a deputy ...

Give Jim Hickam a call. The former Northside head coach and his teammates at old Big Creek High School in War, West Virginia, practiced for an entire season in 1958 … and never played a single game.

The wrecking ball is coming for a West Virginia high school that ... Jake Gyllenhaal. Big Creek opened in 1932 and closed in June. Mayor Tom Hatcher of the city of War says the building is too ...