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Ramps Time for some favorite West Virginia traditions: ramps and ramp dinners! Read More »
Grafton Monster This mysterious creature was supposedly spotted for the first (and perhaps only) time in 1964. Read More »
Nick Saban Retires Read more about former West Virginia state champion quarterback and coaching legend Nick Saban. Read More »
Black High School Basketball Tournament From 1925 to 1957, Black high schools competed in a segregated basketball tournament. Read More »
Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster The nation's deadliest coal mine disaster since 1970 occurred April 5, 2010, in Raleigh County. Read More »
Dogwoods in Bloom This beacon of spring is always a welcome sight to winter-weary West Virginians. Read More »
Maple sugar Maple sap production occurs on warm days following freezing winter nights, usually in February and March. Photograph by Dean Michaud. Read More »
Baseball Professional baseball has been played in West Virginia for over 110 years. Read More »
Right to vote In 1920, West Virginia became the 34th state to ratify the Women's Suffrage Amendment. Read More »
Minister’s Mission Rev. Bernard Coffindaffer erected clusters of crosses in West Virginia and much of the Southeast. Read More »
This Date in HistoryMarch 28, 1870: State officials boarded the Mountain Boy to move capital from Wheeling to Charleston The steamboat Mountain Boy was one of six steamboats that moved West Virginia’s capital between 1870 and 1885. The boat was built on the Monongahela River at Brownsville, Pennsylvania, in 1868 on a hull 135 feet long, 26 feet wide, and four feet deep. It was built for J. W. Oakes, president of the Kanawha and Gallipolis Packet Co. The Mountain Boy was running regularly on the |
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