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This is intended to be a complete list of the African American historic places in West Virginia. The locations and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map.
The West Virginia History OnView digital collection is the largest collection of West Virginia and Appalachian photography accessible online, and draws more than half a million visitors to the WVRHC website annually, accounting for more than a third of all traffic on WVU Libraries' website.
Heritage Farm Museum and Village is an open-air living history museum in Huntington, West Virginia that focuses on Appalachian history and culture.Originally conceived as a location to house and display the private collection of A. Michael "Mike" and Henriella Perry, Heritage Farm has expanded into an entire Appalachian Frontier Village that was recently [when?] named West Virginia's first ...
West Virginia Archives and History is the state agency that collects and preserves materials on the state and makes them available to the public. Located in Charleston, West Virginia, this section of the Department of Arts, Culture and History oversees the West Virginia Archives and History Library, a non-lending research facility, and the West Virginia State Archives, one of the state’s ...
West Virginia & Regional History Center at West Virginia University: Academic Library: Monongalia County: The West Virginia & Regional History Center preserves and provides access to records that document the history and culture of West Virginia and Central Appalachia. [37] Museums of Oglebay Institute: Museums: Ohio County
Sutton Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Sutton, Braxton County, West Virginia. It encompasses 85 contributing buildings and two contributing structures covering eleven square blocks. The district includes the commercial, ecclesiastical, and civic core of the town and surrounding residential area.
The oldest surviving Washington family house in Jefferson County also is the only one still owned by members of the extended Washington family. [7] Modern archeological excavations of a graveyard at Harewood noted that some remains were moved to the graveyard of Zion Episcopal Church in Charles Town in 1882, and have identified the remains of Lucy Payne (wife of George Steptoe Washington) and ...
Rowlesburg is a town in southern Preston County, West Virginia, United States, along the Cheat River.The population was 438 at the 2020 census. [5] A former railroad town, it is home to the Downtown Rowlesburg Historic District, and was the site of action during the American Civil War.