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Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsAfrican-American educator William H. Davis was born in Columbus, Ohio, on November 27, 1848. As a young man of 15, he enlisted in the Union Army and…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsOn October 15, 1850, Joseph Johnson of Harrison County called the Virginia Constitutional Convention, in order to address concerns that Western Virginia (now West Virginia) was under-represented in state government.
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Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsOn October 10, 1774, perhaps the most important battle ever fought in present-day West Virginia occurred at Point Pleasant. It was preceded by a long…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe entertainer known as Dagmar died on October 9, 2001. Born as Virginia Ruth Egnor in Logan County, West Virginia in 1921, in the 1950s she was one of the most recognizable faces on television and even graced the cover of Life magazine.
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