Out of the Past

This photograph portrays members of the Black Hand society whose crimes extended through North Central West Virginia through the 1920s....

Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson was born this month on Harrison County in 1824. Here is a less oft portrayed image of...

Memorable photographs from around Harrison County Happy birthday to Harrison County native and United States Senator Harley Kilgore. His life...

Born August 10, 1953, Archie Talley became the greatest basketball player in the history of Salem College, and one of...

Memorable photographs from around Harrison County Happy birthday to legendary West Virginia University basketball coach Gale “Big Cat” Catlett, born...

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...