Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: West Virginia

A (future) noted West Virginian befriends Charles Dickens

Joseph Diss DeBar’s designs became the official seal and coat-of-arms for the state when West Virginia came into the union.

Agricultural education throughout the State, and scientific farming, have developed within the last 50 years.

They deliberated as to whether they should kill her or let her go, and finally fixed upon the latter course.

By February 24, 1933, 130 of the 3,000 men working on the Hawks Nest Tunnel at Alloy had already died from silicosis.

This West Virginia based traveling salesman used matrimonial correspondence agencies to ensnare lonely women, whom he robbed, then murdered.

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