West Virginia Archives - Page 8 of 43

Page 1 of The West Virginian, March 11 1920

March 11, 2019 West Virginia / Womens suffrage

WV women win right to vote

In a fifteen to fourteen vote on March 10, the state Senate made West Virginia the thirty-fourth of the thirty-six states needed to ratify the amendment.

January 29, 2019 Railroad industry / West Virginia

It’s winter. Engineers, to the dog house!

In the early 20th century, the hundreds of short-line railroads were regarded by locals as their railroad. The KGJ&E was no exception.

January 28, 2019 Appalachian crime / Coal mining / Mine Wars / West Virginia

Lengthiest murder trial in WV history begins

The trial of Sid Hatfield and twenty-two other defendants for the murder of one of the detectives, Albert Felts, began on January 28, 1921.

front page Wheeling register, January 20, 1894

January 24, 2019 Appalachian crime / Capital punishment / West Virginia

John Hardy attributed his downfall to whiskey

WILD E, W. VA., January 19. – “John Hardy, for killing Thomas Drews, both colored, was hung at 2:09 p. m. to-day. Three thousand people witnessed his death.

Brothers and sisters Burl Hammons, Sherman Hammons, Maggie Hammons Parker, and Ruie Hammons at Burl, Maggie, and Ruie's home in Stillwell, near Marlinton, 1972

December 31, 2018 Christmas traditions / West Virginia

Old Christmas superstition

They claim if the house drips on Old Christmas—not the first Christmas, Old Christmas, that they’ll be a good fruit year, plenty of fruit and mast and everything.

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