2018 - Page 26 of 51 - Appalachian History

Open this skyscraper or I’ll jump!

The grand opening of Lynchburg, VA’s first true skyscraper had a last minute political twist changed the Oppenmeyer Tower’s fate forever.

This was the only federal conviction in the hundreds of brutal assaults on Jehovah’s Witnesses that swept America in 1941.

And Rover’s efficiency for killing snakes? No member of our family ever was bitten by any kind of a snake in all of the years living there.

On June 29th of 1899, the boxing match that led to a ban of prize fighting in West Virginia got underway at Fries Park in Parkersburg, WV.

In 1938 the record holder for longest sentence in the English language was 1,288 words. This speech contains a 628 word sentence. That poor audience!