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"The West Virginia Hills" was written in 1879 as a poem inspired by the scenery surrounding the Glenville area and put to music in 1885 by Henry Everett Engle. [1] The song was made one of West Virginia's state songs on February 3, 1961.
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
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It also hit in the middle of West Virginia's then-robust back-to-the-land movement, which, Fowler said, owes a bit of its debt to a biologist with a bent for botany and land preservation.
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]
West Virginia & Regional History Center at West Virginia University has a collection of Sturgiss papers, mostly correspondence and newspaper clippings. [1] William Pallister Hubbard: Republican: March 4, 1907 - March 3, 1911 West Virginia & Regional History Center at West Virginia University has the Hubbard family papers which includes ...
"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 ...