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The West Virginia & Regional History Center (WVRHC), [1] is the largest archival collection housing documents and manuscripts involving West Virginia and the surrounding central Appalachian region. [2] Because of name changes over the years, it is sometimes referred to as the "West Virginia Collection."
The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum preserves the history of the Battle of Blair Mountain, the fight for labor justice, and the people who lived through it. [36] West Virginia & Regional History Center at West Virginia University: Academic Library: Monongalia County
[9] West Virginia & Regional History Center at West Virginia University has miscellaneous items in various collections. [1] West Virginia State Archives has miscellaneous papers located throughout the collection. [5] Filson Club Historical Society has numerous letters to family during his time in Congress in the Guthrie-Caperton family papers. [10]
The Museum is located two blocks from the riverboat landing at the corner of 2nd and Juliana Streets. Exhibits focus on the regional history of west and central West Virginia, and include household furnishings, art, clothing, and prehistoric Native American tools, jewelry, weapons and items. Admission is separate from the park.
9 Doddridge: 9 Mountaineer Country 10 Fayette: 28 New River/Greenbrier Valley 11 Gilmer: 10 Mountain Lakes 12 Grant: 7 Potomac Highlands 13 Greenbrier: 46 New River/Greenbrier Valley 14 Hampshire: 28 Potomac Highlands 15 Hancock: 11 Northern Panhandle 16 Hardy: 25 Potomac Highlands 17 Harrison: 22 Mountaineer Country 18 Jackson: 10 Mid-Ohio ...
Cook collected a lot of material pertaining to the history of West Virginia, including the history of farming in the state, the history of the 31st Virginia Infantry, additional Civil War and early West Virginia state history, and more. He is responsible for multiple collections of materials held at the West Virginia & Regional History Center. [5]
The West Virginia and Regional History Center, the world's largest collection of West Virginia-related research material, is in the Wise Library on the Downtown Campus.. The collection includes over 4.5 million manuscript documents, 30,000 books, 15,000 pamphlets, 1,200 newspapers, 100,000 photographs and prints, 5,000 maps, and 25,000 microfilms, oral histories, films and folk music recordings
"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 ...