West Virginia State University was one of the first historical black colleges to be established in West Virginia, and a key part of that founding involves a marriage between a slave and a slave ...

CHARLESTON — West Virginia Archives and History will present “West Virginia and the Civil War” in the Archives and History Library at the Culture Center, State Capitol Complex, in Charleston ...

The West Virginia tavern now known as Foster's Main Street Tavern gained Civil War history when two future presidents dined there in the midst of the war.

During the Civil War, Anna's mother, ... West Virginia, at what was the Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church. It is now known as the International Mother's Day Shrine.

The organization began in Virginia in 1994 and has since grown to incorporate Civil War sites in Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Tennessee.

Civil War Delays the Feud. It is said that the McCoys were laying out a plan of battle for the recapture of the pig when the news that the civil war was on reached the West Virginia-Kentucky ...