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West Virginia State Farm Museum: Point Pleasant: Mason: Metro Valley: Farm: website, buildings of historical value, log cabins and tools, early farmhouse and furnishing, machinery, an operational 19th-century blacksmith shop, turn-of-the-20th-century doctor's and newspaper offices West Virginia State Museum: Charleston: Kanawha: Metro Valley ...
The West Virginia State Museum, formerly the West Virginia Science and Culture Center, is a history, culture, art, paleontology, archaeology and geology museum at the West Virginia Capitol Complex in Charleston, West Virginia. [2] [3] It was founded in 1890 and is considered a major museum in the state by The Statesman's Yearbook. [4] [5]
^ In 2009, West Virginia named bituminous coal as its official state rock, in a resolution that noted that the coal industry plays an "integral part of the economic and social fabric of the state". West Virginia joined Kentucky and Utah, which also recognize coal as a state mineral or rock.
Geologic Map of West Virginia. West Virginia's geologic history stretches back into the Precambrian, and includes several periods of mountain building and erosion. At times, much of what is now West Virginia was covered by swamps, marshlands, and shallow seas, accounting for the wide variety of sedimentary rocks found in the state, as well as its wealth of coal and natural gas deposits.
Watters Smith Memorial State Park is a 532-acre (2.15 km 2) historical park and national historic district with a pioneer homestead and museum located in Harrison County, West Virginia. The homestead, rising above Duck Creek, is a memorial to settler Watters Smith, who was born in Trenton, New Jersey , in 1767, and moved to Harrison County in ...
The mission statement was written in the mid-1980s with the establishment of the COMER Museum. “The purpose of the museum is to preserve and promote the social, cultural and technological history of the coal, oil and gas industries of the State of West Virginia through the collection, preservation, research, and exhibition of tangible objects relevant to these industries.” [5]
This is a listing of museums within the state of West Virginia. Subcategories. ... Military and war museums in West Virginia (1 C, ...
West Virginia was home to graptolites at that time and they left their remains behind in what would later become dark colored shales. [5] At the same time, mountains were being uplifted in the eastern part of the state. [3] West Virginia's Silurian rocks preserve evidence for the mixing of both marine and non-marine environments. [2]