Out of the Past

Lumberport Schoolteachers from the year 1915. Miss Stella Woofter identified as the teacher in the back row on right.

Benjamin Harrison V served as the Governor of Virginia from 1781 to 84, Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates...

Photo courtesy of WVU Libraries Homes of coal miners along a narrow street in Wyatt, around 1909.

A night out at the movies in Clarksburg, circa 1933.

Shinnston tornado aftermath in 1944. What’s left of a home hit by the deadliest tornado in West Virginia’s history. Noted...

The Interstate 79 interchange for Clarksburg and Bridgeport before the opening up of the highway. Memorable photographs from around Harrison...

  This picture postcard shows the then-newly constructed First National Bank of Shinnston. The building now houses the Bice Ferguson...

Nick Saban, one of college football’s all mtime great coaches, opened his career at Monongah High School. He recently spoke...

Memorable photographs from around Harrison County Hope Gas Company facility in Bridgeport. Year unknown. Photo courtesy of WVU Libraries

William Lowther “Mudwall” Jackson, born in Clarksburg, was a Confederate colonel, cousin and staff officer to Stonewall Jackson, and also...