When the Civil War began, the remote Pacific Northwest lacked Eastern telegraph and railroad connections, cutting it off from news. Newspapers took six weeks to arrive by ship. The news of South Carol ...

St. Mark's Episcopal Church in St. Albans, West Virginia has a history that predates the Civil War. Church leaders and ...

Once bustling with miners and merchants, La Paz became the unlikely setting where the Civil War reached the river’s edge. Today, little remains but echoes of the past. Join us as we trace the ...

PARKERSBURG — The mother of a 3-year-old boy who left his foster parents’ house and drowned in the Little Kanawha River last summer ... foul play involved. The civil lawsuit contends the ...

The piers were left over in the Susquehanna from an older rail bridge that opened in 1866, shortly after the Civil War ... River by boat and that construction of the bridge had little overlap ...

“I was the first person to touch it in 150 years.” The hill upon which Fort Boreman is located was a Union Army fortification overlooking the Ohio and Little Kanawha rivers during the Civil War.

The occupation was crowned “California’s Little Civil War.” They literally turned the gates and released ... Years after water started flowing in the Lower Owens River, LADWP needs to be pressed to ...

Brian Kesterson, a local Civil War expert, displays a bag of bullets found during a search in October at Fort Boreman Park in Wood County by the 35th State Relic Hunters and the Mid-Ohio Valley ...

The location was valuable during the Civil War because the Weston & Gauley Bridge Turnpike crossed the Little Kanawha River on a covered bridge at this site. e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia ...

What until now had been the previous war — some call it the French and Indian War ... the other by the Maryland speculator Michael Cresap — arranged to meet at the mouth of the Little Kanawha River ...

Alas, within two years, Captain Andy’s had apparently set sail, with a new establishment — Jim Little Jazz ... during the Civil War, his knowledge of the river helping evade the Union blockade ...