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West Virginia History OnView database WV Collection holds Keys to the State's History - article about the Center and its history 39°37′59.5″N 79°57′15.8″W / 39.633194°N 79.954389°W / 39.633194; -79.
"The View from the Border: West Virginia Republicans and Women's Rights in the Age of Emancipation," West Virginia History, Spring2009, Vol. 3 Issue 1, pp 57–80, 1861–1870 era; Gerofsky, Milton. "Reconstruction in West Virginia, Part I and II," West Virginia History 6 (July 1945); Part I, 295–360, 7 (October 1945): Part II, 5–39, Link ...
Metropolitan Theatre is a historic theater building located at Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia. It opened July 24, 1924, two-and-a-half years after construction began, and consists of a single floor auditorium with balcony.
The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history and is the largest armed uprising since the American Civil War. [4] [5] The conflict occurred in Logan County, West Virginia, as part of the Coal Wars, a series of early-20th-century labor disputes in Appalachia.
Buffalo Town Square Historic District is a national historic district located at Buffalo, Putnam County, West Virginia.It encompasses three contributing buildings all in the Greek Revival on the town square: the Buffalo Academy (1849), Buffalo Presbyterian Church (1857), and Buffalo Methodist Church (1870). [2]
West Virginia Archives and History is the state agency that collects and preserves materials on the state and makes them available to the public. Located in Charleston, West Virginia, this section of the Department of Arts, Culture and History oversees the West Virginia Archives and History Library, a non-lending research facility, and the West Virginia State Archives, one of the state’s ...
Opened June 12, 1931, it was designed by architect John Eberson, [1] whose theaters included the since-demolished Colonial and Astor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Calvert in Washington, D.C., and the Capitol in Chicago, Illinois; and the extant Cinema le Grand Rex in Paris, France, the Capitol in Sydney, Australia, the Dixie in Staunton, Virginia, and the American in the Bronx, New York City.
2001 - David Felinton becomes the youngest mayor in Huntington, West Virginia history. [23] 2003 - Marshall Commons, opens. 2004 Fairfield Stadium closes. Pullman Square is built. Tsubasacon starts. 2006 Fictional but based on true events We Are Marshall movie released (set in Huntington). Huntington Heroes is founded.