POCAHONTAS COUNTY, W.Va. (WOWK) — When West Virginia became a state on June 20, 1863, the Civil War was still raging, meaning that even though it was no longer part of Virginia, Confederate ...

A vast underground bunker lay hidden for decades in the mountains beneath one of America’s most luxurious resorts, built in ...

AVERILL has just returned from a rain in Western Virginia, in which, after a decisive battle at the Droop Mountain ... CLARKSBURGH, West Virginia, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 1863. Gen.

Admitted to the Union in 1863, West Virginia was the only state created from breaking apart from a Confederate state during the Civil War and played ... state’s rolling mountains, hills and ...

Writer Ambrose Bierce found the setting for some of his famous short stories in the mountains of Western Virginia. Arising like other writing of his from Civil War battles and the lives of the ...

On the night of May 9, 1863, a conflagration lit up the skies along the Little Kanawha River at Burning Springs at the site ...

Tolson, an administrative assistant with Civil War Trails, worked with private collectors and members of West Virginia’s Jewish community to unearth details regarding the 1862 seders and Joel.

Hayes — will be unveiled in Fayetteville, West Virginia. A corresponding ceremony, scheduled for 11 a.m. at Lovey Hope Center for the Arts, will be a reminder that “the original cast of the Civil War ...