Communities
Community Histories
Districts and Place Names From The New
Descriptive Atlas Of West Virginia
Place Names in West Virginia
"Coal Miners and Their Communities in Southern Appalachia,
1925-1941, Part One," by Rhonda Janney Coleman (West Virginia Historical Society Quarterly)
"Coal Miners and Their Communities in Southern Appalachia,
1925-1941, Part Two," by Rhonda Janney Coleman (West Virginia Historical Society Quarterly)
A-I
Arthurdale Resettlement Community (Time Trail)
Beckley Municipal Charter
"Beckley Charter Much Changed Since
Inception"
Buffalo
Charleston Becomes an Official City (Time Trail)
"Booster Ethos: Community, Image and Profit in Early
Clarksburg," by L. Diane Barnes (West Virginia History)
"Fayetteville, West Virginia, During the Civil
War," by Mary Elizabeth Kincaid (West Virginia History)
Town of Franklin Burns (Time Trail)
Gassaway and Community
Burning of Guyandotte (Time Trail)
Harpers Ferry Flood (Time Trail)
"A Nineteenth-Century Mill Village: Virginius Island,
1800-1860," by Mary Johnson (West Virginia History)
"Helvetia: Little Switzerland"
"The Story of Howard's Lick"
Incorporation of Huntington (Time Trail)
Floods Devastate Huntington (Time Trail)
"Iaeger Named For Early Resident"
J-Z
Sodom and Gomorrah of Today or the History of Keystone West Virginia (6 MB)
Incorporation of McMechen
Mount Hope
Mole Hill Becomes Mountain
Founding of Nitro (Time Trail)
Oceana
Burning of Princeton During Civil War (Time Trail)
Incorporation of Romney and Shepherdstown (Time Trail)
Shepherdstown Considered For Nation's Capital
Jefferson County seat moved from Shepherdstown to Charles
Town (Time Trail)
Shinnston
Act of the Virginia General Assembly
establishing Suttonsville (Sutton)
Burning of Sutton
"Thurmond: The Rise and Fall of a Coal City," by Jessica M. Fair (West Virginia Historical Society Quarterly)
"A History Of West Milford"
Article on L. G. Widen
History Center