Heroic Nina Paden ferry won many hearts in service
The Nina Paden and its skipper wheeled beyond the call of duty in ferrying the Ohio River at Parkersburg, West Virginia. Of all the...
Epidemic victims may rest on New River's Island of the Dead
Victims of an epidemic that swept through the New River Gorge in the late 1800s may have been buried in a remote cemetery on...
UBB Mine Disaster Memorial has helped some heal
All it took was a spark to ignite an explosion that sent hurricane-force winds tearing through mines beneath the mountains near Montcoal in southern...
Historic Antietam maps donated to Shepherd Civil War center
Maps donated to the George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War will give researchers in the Battle of Antietam a...
West Virginia mountains kept 1830 cholera epidemic at bay
Residents of the mountain counties of West Virginia have traditionally weathered the ravages of communicable diseases with some success. Far from the maddening crowds,...
Civil War-era mystery of Burning Springs remains unsolved
Curious motorists traveling the valley of the Little Kanawha River southwest of Parkersburg may or may not stop at Burning Springs. Here a defunct...
Untangling the tale of frontier heroine Mary Draper Ingles
The tale of Mary Draper Ingles—of her escape from Shawnee captors and her return through the mountains—is in many senses the ideal American frontier...
Historic Nuttalburg mine, ghost town may be accessible soon
Access to one of the most important mining heritage sites in the U.S. will reopen again soon, though officials have no timeline for restoration...
Many early almanacs printed out of Wheeling, West Virginia
Thanks to the Internet, almanacs aren't printed as they once were, but in West Virginia, where communications were hampered by the mountains, they were...
How the Tug Fork in southern West Virginia got its name
Of all the placenames associated with West Virginia, that of the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River in southern West Virginia may be...
Wheeling in the 1820s was proposed as new U.S. capital
There was a time when Wheeling was being proposed as the location for a new capital of the U.S. At the junction of the...
Grant funding available for coal heritage projects
The National Coal Heritage Area Authority is seeking proposals for funding for projects that support community efforts to interpret, preserve, and promote coal heritage...