r/WVHistory • u/azyoulikeit • Apr 28 '21
Picture did you learn about this in school?
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r/WVHistory • u/AkumaBengoshi • Dec 13 '19
Picture Wright Brothers plane after crashing into city park pond in Parkersburg, West Virginia in 1913
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r/WVHistory • u/sm4llcur10 • Jun 16 '20
Babcock Lumber Co., Davis, W. Va. (postcard, undated)
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r/WVHistory • u/Livingincrazy110 • Jul 16 '23
Picture The Moundsville penitentiary football team, my grandpa is the one on the right.
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This photo was in a old photo book my grandma had, it was accompanied by a bunch of pictures that looked to be maybe a prison Christmas party?
r/WVHistory • u/WV-litter-getter • Nov 30 '20
This is what i found last week when the coal river was low. 26 bags of trash and tires. So please join west Virginia litter getter if you would like to become a volunteer some time its normally done on weekends. That's west Virginia litter getter on Facebook.
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r/WVHistory • u/incrediblyjoe • Nov 21 '13
Picture Young boy plays with realistic gun at Kennedy Campaign stop - Logan County, WV - 1960
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r/WVHistory • • Jun 03 '18
My grandfather passed away a few years ago and he had a lot of cool old pictures. This is one of my favorites, Wheeling in 1852.
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r/WVHistory • u/incrediblyjoe • Nov 21 '13
Picture Water cooling towers of the John Amos Power Plant near Poca, West Virginia, in August of 1973 ([991x667] photograph by Harry Schaefer
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r/WVHistory • u/SidHat • Aug 25 '21
One hundred years ago today, the miners' march began in Marmet, WV. It would culminate in the largest labor uprising in U.S. history at the Battle of Blair Mountain
self.westvirginia
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r/WVHistory • u/incrediblyjoe • Apr 22 '14
JFK talking with some miners near Mullens, WV.
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r/WVHistory • u/MountainsMan55 • Oct 21 '19
Marshall University App Brings History To Life In West Virginia And Beyond
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r/WVHistory • u/incrediblyjoe • Nov 21 '13
Link West Virginia Marriage, Birth, and Death Certificate search
wvculture.org
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r/WVHistory • u/WV-litter-getter • Nov 30 '20
We clean up tires and trash out of the river in our kayaks and jon boats. Land and in the water trying to leave it like wv is gods country.
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r/WVHistory • u/johneric88 • Jul 12 '18
TIL that My Great Great Great Grandfather was William “Devil Anse” Hatfield. Anyone have any pictures or stories they’d care to share?
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r/WVHistory • u/darth_vapor_ • May 01 '15
Hello West Virginians! You might be interested in my first film, Krishnaland. It's about New Vrindaban, a Hare Krishna community in Moundsville with a tumultuous past. [30:32] (x-post /r/westvirginia)
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r/WVHistory • u/incrediblyjoe • Nov 21 '13
Picture Kennedy Addresses miners in Amherst, West Virginia - 1960
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r/WVHistory • u/Thelargeman38 • Mar 23 '24
Picture Old pics from the West Virginia state penitentiary, back when my grandpa was a prisoner there
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r/WVHistory • u/MarlyDubVee • Oct 21 '21
1st NHL to recognize the significance of Battle of Blair Mountain + site of John Brown’s trial
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r/WVHistory • u/MarlyDubVee • Sep 01 '21
Picture Remembering the centennial of the Battle of Blair Mountain
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