Community Histories
Districts and Place Names From The New
Descriptive Atlas Of West Virginia
Place Names in West Virginia
Arthurdale Resettlement Community
Beckley Municipal Charter
"Beckley Charter Much Changed Since
Inception"
Act of the Virginia General Assembly Establishing the
Town of Buffalo
Late-Nineteenth Century Description of
Buffalo
"Shopping hub? George Washington? Buffalo residents
don't want town's claims to fame lost in the Toyota tide"
Front Page of 1858 Issue of The Wreath of the
Kanawha Valley, Published by the Students of Buffalo Academy (Sc91-39)
1858 Advertisement For Buffalo Academy and Seminary
(Sc91-39)
Flyer For 1929 Buffalo High School Play
(Sc83-20)
Charleston Becomes an Official City
"Booster Ethos: Community, Image and Profit in Early
Clarksburg"
"Fayetteville, West Virginia, During the Civil
War"
Town of Franklin Burns
Gassaway and Community
Burning of Guyandotte
Harpers Ferry Flood
"A Nineteenth-Century Mill Village: Virginius Island,
1800-1860"
"Helvetia: Little Switzerland"
"The Story of Howard's Lick"
Incorporation of Huntington
Floods Devastate Huntington
"Iaeger Named For Early Resident"
Incorporation of McMechen
"Mt. Hope Swept by Flames"
"Mt. Hope In Ruins"
"Mt. Hope Destroyed By Fire"
"Mount Hope Disastrous Fire"
Fayette Journal Headline, March 24,
1910
"Turning a Molehill Into a Mountain"
"Mole Hill Becomes Mountain, W. Va."
"Mountain Or Mole Hill?"
"High Officials Participate In Mole Hill–Mountain Program"
"Little Mole Hill Grows Up To ‘Mountain’ Size Today "
"‘Who Says It Can’t Be Done?’ Residents of Mountain Ask"
Mountain to Mole Hill Ribbon
Founding of Nitro
"Oceana Wiped Almost Off the Map by the Fire
Fiend"
"Oceana Fire"
"An Appeal To The People And Prayer to County
Court"
Burning of Princeton During Civil War
Incorporation of Romney and Shepherdstown
Shepherdstown Considered For Nation's Capital
"The Capital On The
'Potowmack'"
"The Capitol That Might Have
Been"
1791 Newspaper Article From the
Potowmac Guardian and Berkeley Advertiser
Jefferson County seat moved from Shepherdstown to Charles
Town
Sources on the Shinnston Tornado
Shinnston Tornado
Act of the Virginia General Assembly
establishing Suttonsville (Sutton)
Burning of Sutton
"Thurmond: The Rise and Fall of a Coal City"
"Coal Miners and Their Communities in Southern Appalachia,
1925-1941, Part One"
"Coal Miners and Their Communities in Southern Appalachia,
1925-1941, Part Two"
