Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Federal Writers' Project (1941), "Newspapers", West Virginia: A Guide to the Mountain State, American Guide Series, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 112+, ISBN 9781603540476 – via Google Books; Otis K. Rice (July 1953). "West Virginia Printers and their Work, 1790-1830". West Virginia History. West Virginia Historical Society. ISSN 0043 ...
The Nicholas Chronicle is a newspaper serving Summersville, West Virginia, and surrounding Nicholas County. [2] Published weekly, it has a 2016 paid circulation of 7,481 and is owned by Nicholas Co. Publishing Company, Inc. [ 3 ] It is currently the largest weekly newspaper in West Virginia .
Summersville is a city in Nicholas County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 3,459 at the 2020 census. [ 3 ] It is the county seat of Nicholas County.
William Griffee Brown, History of Nicholas County West Virginia. Richmond, VA: Dietz Press, 1954. A.J. Legg, A History of Panther Mountain Community (Nicholas County, West Virginia). Morgantown, WV: Agricultural Extension Division, 1930. Nicholas County Historical and Genealogical Society, Nicholas County History.
James B. Carden House is a historic home located near Summersville, Nicholas County, West Virginia. It was built in 1885, and is a two-story, "T"-plan, frame, Folk Victorian style house. It features a two-story front porch running the full width of the house. Also on the property are an end gable barn and a small workshop.
Born Nancy Hart in 1846 in Raleigh, North Carolina, she and her family moved to Tazewell, Virginia, when she was an infant.Her mother was first cousin to Andrew Johnson, who became president after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.Hart lived with her family in West Virginia until the outbreak of the Civil War, at which time she developed great sympathy for the Southern cause.
Old Main, the former Nicholas County High School, is a school building located in Summersville, West Virginia. The two-story stone Renaissance-style building was constructed in 1913 and graduated its first class in 1915. [2] From 1915 to 1930, the school also served as the site of a State Normal School for teachers. [2]
Though her West-Virginian heritage spans seven generations back, Pancake was born in Richmond, Virginia, where her father was enrolled in seminary at the time. [2] She grew up in Summersville, West Virginia in Nicholas County, later moving to Romney, West Virginia when she was eight years old.