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In the summer of 1798, after an arduous wagon journey across the Alleghenies from Virginia’s Piedmont region, brothers Samuel and John Shrewsbury first set eyes on the 704-acre tract of
West Virginia is well known for its many coal mining towns and coal industry. However, there is another industry that helped put the Mountain State on the map - salt.
CHARLESTON — Volunteers uprooting weeds and invasive plants last month from a plot in Charleston’s Spring Hill Cemetery unearthed a historic discovery: Long-buried stone tablets marking the graves of the
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Ohio Valley History… Arsenal of democracy Rizer One of the igloos in the TNT area north of Point Pleasant. (Chris Rizer | Courtesy) President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said in 1940, “We must be the great arsenal of democracy” in a speech calling for materiel support for Great Britain and China in their war against Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. He knew what all commanders know. You can have as many top-notch soldiers as you like, but if you don’t have enough food, enough supplies, enough weapons for those soldiers, you’ve lost the war. This simple fact played a major role in our local economy, far as we are from Pittsburgh and Dearborn.