Showing posts with label West Virginia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label West Virginia. Show all posts
Aug 28, 2021

Battle of Blair Mountain

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(Wikipedia) The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history and the largest armed uprising since the Am...
Dec 25, 2009

From New Deal to New Hard Times, Eleanor Endures

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(NYTimes) Early spring, in the Depression year of 1935. A poor girl from coal-mine country, a dark-haired girl of 4, rocks beside her mother...
Oct 16, 2009

Retracing John Brown’s incendiary footsteps

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HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) - Just as cold, damp weather couldn't quench John Brown's incendiary fervor, it didn't discourage those det...
Oct 7, 2009

Royal Proclamation of 1763

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(Wikipedia) The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of Frenc...
Sep 20, 2009

Big day for museums, parks on Sept. 26

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(msnbc.com) - If you can’t get free admission to a museum, a park, or some sort of walking tour, music performance or a national park on Sat...
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Sep 19, 2009

Battle of Shepherdstown

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(Wikipedia) - The Battle of Shepherdstown, also known as the Battle of Boteler's Ford, took place September 19–20, 1862, in Jefferson Co...
Sep 16, 2009

Dixon S. Miles: Bad General or Worst General?

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(Wikipedia) - Dixon Stansbury Miles (May 4, 1804 – September 16, 1862) was a career United States Army officer who served in the Mexican-Ame...
Sep 15, 2009

Battle of Harpers Ferry

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(Wikipedia) - The Battle of Harpers Ferry was fought September 12–15, 1862, as part of the Maryland Campaign of the American Civil War. As G...
Jun 13, 2009

John Brown pikes command high price

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DARGAN, Md. - The spears that John Brown ordered for his abolitionist army were fearsome, primitive things. Nearly seven feet long, the pike...
Apr 27, 2009

Thomas Lewis

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(Wikipedia) - Thomas Lewis (April 27, 1718 – January 31, 1790) was an Irish-American surveyor, lawyer, and a pioneer of early Virginia. He ...
Apr 26, 2009

Hack Wilson

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(Wikipedia) - Lewis Robert "Hack" Wilson (April 26, 1900 – November 23, 1948) was an American center fielder in Major League Baseb...
Jan 26, 2009

Baltimore County's Other Rebel Raiders

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While many are familiar with the Confederate cavalry raider Harry Gilmor , few remember T. Sturgis Davis. Davis, like Gilmor, was a member o...
Jan 23, 2009

Elva Zona Heaster: The Greenbrier Ghost

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(Wikipedia) - The Greenbrier Ghost is the name popularly given to the alleged ghost of a young woman in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, Un...
Dec 9, 2008

Hard times spark interest in New Deal sites

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - The election of an ambitious new president in hard times is evoking comparisons with President Franklin Roosevelt, ...
Dec 2, 2008

John Brown

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(Wikipedia) - John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist who advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a m...
Oct 10, 2008

The C&O Canal completed

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(LoC) - On October 10, 1850, the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal was completed and opened for business along its entire 184.5 mile length from W...
Aug 8, 2008

Putt-Putting Along the Rails

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(NYTimes)- A RAILWAY motorcar, or railcar, is a peculiar, no-frills, gasoline-powered vehicle not much bigger than a golf cart and not much ...
Jul 20, 2008

1877 - Rioting in Baltimore, Maryland by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers

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(Wikipedia) - ... The great railroad strike of 1877 started on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, in response to the cutting of wages fo...
Jun 20, 2008

West Virginia Day

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(LoC) - On June 20, 1863, West Virginia became the thirty-fifth state in the Union. The land that formed the new state formerly constituted ...
Jun 15, 2008

The Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership

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"The Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership is a non-profit organization dedicated to raising national awareness of the unparallel...