Tag: West Virginia history
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Rumors surround Golden Horseshoe artifact
This story was originally published in the Charleston Daily Mail on Friday, May 7, 2010. This morning, State Schools Superintendent Steve Paine will dub more than 200 West Virginia eighth-graders “knights and ladies of the Golden Horseshoe” for their knowledge of state history. But there’s one question none of these adolescent history aces, or anybody […]
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Final rest for forgotten victims of industrial tragedy
This story was originally published in the Charleston Daily Mail on Friday, Sept. 7, 2012. SUMMERSVILLE, W.Va. — History doesn’t have much to say about Roosevelt Singleton. We do not know where he was born or where he lived before moving to Gauley Bridge to work in the Hawks Nest Tunnel. We do not know […]