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Natural Bridge Toy Museum, Natural Bridge; closed November 2012; Natural Bridge Wax Museum, Natural Bridge, closed in 2014 [64] P. Buckley Moss Museum, Waynesboro, closed in 2014 [65] Presidents Park (Virginia), Williamsburg, closed as of 9/30/10; Professor Cline's Haunted Monster Museum and Dark Maze, Natural Bridge; destroyed in a fire April ...
It encompasses 7 contributing buildings and 2 contributing sites in the Reconstruction-era African-American rural village of Morgantown. The district contains four dwellings, the Mount Nebo Baptist Church (1902), an abandoned Morgantown School (c. 1891), a meat house, the ruins of an outbuilding, and a cemetery.
The Virginia Museum of Natural History was founded in 1984 as The Boaz Foundation, named after Dr. Noel T. Boaz, Founding Director, along with co-founder Dr. Dorothy Dechant Boaz. The museum was founded as a private institution, but on June 2, 1985, the museum opened to the public with the new and current name.
History of the Making of Morgantown, West Virginia: A Type Study in Trans-Appalachian Local History. Morgantown, WV: Morgantown Printing and Binding Co., 1926. Callahan, James Morton. History of West Virginia: Old and New. Chicago and New York: The American Historical Society, 1923. Chambers, S. Allen. Buildings of West Virginia. Oxford and New ...
The original museum remained open until 1982 when it was closed in response to artifacts being stolen. [3] All remaining items where then stored in the basement of city hall and the society was disbanded. [4] The museum was reopened in 1996 inside the Jeffersontown Library building under the direction of the City of Jeffersontown.
It is situated near Cheat Lake, and the Tibbs Run Reservoir, which was used as a water source for Morgantown before 1969. The reservoir basin was drained in 1980 and is now grown over with plants. The garden was founded in 1983 by George Longenecker, a professor at West Virginia University, and a group of volunteers.
Aug. 27—MORGANTOWN — USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Chief Terry Cosby came to town on Tuesday to visit an urban farm and a climate monitoring site. He was joined by local and ...
The district includes 501 contributing buildings and 5 contributing structures in a primarily residential area south of downtown Morgantown. The district is characterized by tightly packed dwellings on a hillside and represent a variety of post-Victorian architectural styles popular between 1900 and 1940.