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This Week in WV History
4+ week, 1+ day ago (728+ words) CHARLESTON - The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org. Aug. 16, 1851: William Hope "Coin" Harvey was born in Buffalo, Putnam County. Harvey, a social…...
This week in West Virginia history
3+ week, 5+ day ago (697+ words) The oldest statue in West Virginia is this 9-foot wood carving of Patrick Henry. Council Confederate troops led by Brig. Gen. John Echols were defeated at Droop Mountain by a larger federal force led by Brig. Gen. William W. Averell on…...
This week in West Virginia history - West Virginia Press Association
2+ week, 4+ day ago (550+ words) By West Virginia Humanities CouncilFor The Wayne County News Charleston — The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at wvencyclopedia.org. Aug. 23, 1949: John Chambers was born in…...
A week in West Virginia History
2+ week, 4+ day ago (679+ words) CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org. Sept. 3, 1851: Mollie Gabe was born into slavery in Flatwoods, Braxton County. After emancipation,…...
This week in West Virginia history: August 30 to September 5
2+ week, 5+ min ago (886+ words) A longtime State Farm agent on Buckhannon's Main Street, Kelley Tierney offers home, auto, life and renters insurance — plus State Farm financial services — under the company's "Here For What Matters" approach. Read more → The following events happened on these dates…...
West Virginia and the Civil War subject of Round Table meeting
4+ week, 1+ day ago (448+ words) PARKERSBURG - The Civil War Round Table of the Mid-Ohio Valley will hold a special meeting next week for a presentation on West Virginia's history in the Civil War. William Kerrigan, Ph.D., author, historian and professor emeritus at Muskingum University, will…...
Locations in Valley and Central Virginia included as state's 'Most Endangered Places"
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (267+ words) A list of endangered historic places in Virginia earlier this year includes several structures in the WMRA Listening Area. WMRA’s Calvin Pynn reports. Preservation Virginia is a nonprofit that publishes a list every year of historic structures throughout the Commonwealth…...
One Of America's Most Haunted Places Is Right Here In West Virginia
2+ week, 2+ day ago (1675+ words) 150 years. Right at 818 Jefferson Ave, Moundsville, WV 26041, sits a landmark that has quietly been one...
Life in the Revolutionary-Era Virginia Backcountry
1+ week, 1+ day ago (91+ words) Williamsburg Families DESKTOP AD – Row of 6 MOBILE AD – Row of 2 Life in the Revolutionary-Era Virginia Backcountry November 12 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm November 12 • 6 p.m. • American Revolution Museum at Yorktown Join William & Mary professor Sarah McCartney, Ph.D., for a look at “Life…...
Behind the walls of West Virginia's massive Gothic prison, now a tourist attraction
2+ week, 23+ hour ago (1074+ words) MOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. — Behind stone walls 24 feet high, as many as 2,000 people at a time were once confined in a massive Gothic prison that spanned three city blocks in the heart of this Ohio River community. For 129 years, the West Virginia…...