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    Did Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis secretly meet in West Virginia?

    History / Prehistory David Sibray -
    PHILIPPI, W.Va. — Did Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis secretly meet in what is now West Virginia just days after the first land battle...

    Here are the top 10 winter snows that shaped West Virginia history

    History / Prehistory David Sibray -
    BECKLEY, W.Va. — West Virginia can be a snowy place. Though not nearly as snowy as Maine or Alaska, it does snow for much...

    Frank James entered a West Virginia bank in 1872 — and left without robbing it

    History / Prehistory David Sibray -
    PRINCETON, W.Va. — In 1872, when the name Frank James still carried the weight of fear and notoriety across...

    Runaway Virginia slave deceived by rescuer changed public opinion in Ohio

    History / Prehistory William Kerrigan -
    CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — On a September morning in 1856, attorney James Jackson awoke to learn that one of the...

    Farmington Mine Disaster still echoes across West Virginia coal country

    History / Prehistory David Sibray -
    FARMINGTON, W.Va. — Before dawn on November 20, 1968, a thunderous explosion ripped through Consolidation Coal Company’s No. 9...

    Prehistoric burial mound in West Virginia contains remarkable secret

    History / Prehistory Amanda Larch Hinchman -
    SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Rising above the end of this city’s central avenue, the prehistoric Criel Mound—one of the...

    Prehistoric West Virginia was never a so-called "uninhabited" hunting ground

    History / Prehistory Charity Moore -
    CHARLESTON, W.Va. — When I moved to West Virginia in 2013, just out of grad school and anxious to...

    Charles Town grave marks the last resting place of restless John Yeats Beall

    History / Prehistory William Kerrigan -
    CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. — In the Zion Episcopal churchyard in Charles Town, West Virginia, lies the grave of John...
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