West Virginia Archives - Page 3 of 5

Musty corn and the dread scourge pellagra

Musty corn was thought to cause the life-threatening disease pellagra, a condition that we understand today results from a lack of niacin.

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.

First car to Crow, W. Va. Walter Dudley and family of Glen Morgan, Permission Postmisstress at Crow. June 11, 1910. That’s all we know here.

In early days for some reason, the little town of Keystone, WV sported one of the biggest red light districts [Cinder Bottom] in existence.

The history of workers meeting violence with violence, with tragic consequences. The history of workers fighting for basic rights.