Wythe County VA Archives - Appalachian History

In June 1929, First Lady Louann Hoover refused to invite black Congressman Oscar De Priest’s wife to the White House for tea with others.

Baseball’s First World Series Hero: ‘Deacon Phillippe’

Baseball pitcher Charles Louis (“Deacon”) Phillippe, of Rural Retreat VA, was drafted into the National League by Louisville in 1898.

The focus on Edith, at her birthplace museum in Wytheville, is to tell the story of this First Lady in her early years.

On that Sunday evening in 1927, one-armed deputy Chap Osborne approached the vehicle he had just stopped, with his gun drawn.