On this day in 1930 work began on the Hawk’s Nest Tunnel through Gauley Mountain in West Virginia. The tunnel was to divert water from the New River to a
In April 1865 a riverboat that carried cargo from Illinois south to New Orleans was hired to transport newly freed Union prisoners from Vicksburg, Mississippi, home. Unfortunately, many of them
In the 1920’s two men from eastern Europe were going around the Appalachian region scamming people out of large sums of money, pretending they were paying back “family debts” incurred
The West Virginia State Penitentiary at Moundsville opened in 1876. Prior to this prisoners in the state were usually either kept in county jails or sent out of state for
In the late 1880s a Bristol, Tennessee water company decided to extend its lines across the state line to what was then known as Goodson, now Bristol, Virginia. The folks
In the 1930’s a man interested in writing, new age religions and far-right politics came to Asheville, North Carolina, where he established his own fascist organization in support of Adolf
On this day in 1925 an explosion ripped through Bethlehem Mines’ Barrackville mine number 41 near Fairmont, West Virginia. 34 men were trapped in the mine by the blast. There
On this day in 1943 Colonel James C. Marshall, a military engineer, announced that housing would be built for employees of the Clinton Engineer Works who were working on a
In the area of Bland and Tazewell Counties in Virginia in the late 1780’s a pregnant young woman and her child were captured by a band of renegade Indians consisting
In 1912 a Presbyterian pastor in Greeneville, Tennessee, decided to help his former secretary back at the school he headed in Pittsburgh. That decision cost the woman her life and