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From Jerry West to Best Virginia, basketball in West Virginia is a unifying force

History / Prehistory Clyde Craig - July 28, 2025

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The Mountain State is a land stitched together by rugged mountains, close-knit towns, and a complicated economic past. Yet for generations,...

The five worst floods in West Virginia history: A Chronicle of Disaster

History / Prehistory David Sibray - July 27, 2025

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Shaped by rugged mountains and winding rivers, West Virginia has endured some of the most catastrophic floods in American history. Its five...

Remarkable encounter: John Brown’s final moments witnessed by Stonewall Jackson

History / Prehistory William Kerrigan - July 22, 2025

CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. — On December 1, 1859, abolitionist John Brown, having been convicted and sentenced to death for...

How Devil Anse Hatfield became a bold symbol of change in Appalachia

History / Prehistory Clyde Craig - July 21, 2025

LOGAN, W.Va. — By the time the world would come to know him as “Devil Anse,” Anderson Hatfield had...

The daring Civil War tale of Samantha Jane Atkeson of Putnam County

History / Prehistory William Kerrigan - July 7, 2025

BUFFALO, W.Va. — Samantha Jane Atkeson was a teenager when she had to face down Union soldiers searching her...

Freedom in Sight: Monroe County slaves risked all to flee to Union lines

History / Prehistory William Kerrigan - July 3, 2025

UNION, W.Va. — While slavery had only a minor impact in most of what's now West Virginia before the...

The 12 oldest towns in West Virginia that still exist

History / Prehistory Clyde Craig - June 28, 2025

POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — While parts of the mountainous interior of West Virginia weren't settled until the early 1900s,...

Dreamland murder-suicide house in Kenova, West Virginia, demolished

History / Prehistory Cody Straley - June 23, 2025

KENOVA, W.Va. — Every summer for nearly a century, people have flocked to Dreamland Pool in the small city...

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