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• Philippi

  … and business. A residential community, Philippi is within approximately half an … Sheriff Augustus Modisett, stands near Philippi. Another popular attraction is the … local artifacts, including the "Philippi Mummies":https://www.wvencyclopedia. …

• Battle of Philippi

  … organized troops took place at "Philippi":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … According to historian Mark Snell, "Philippi was a trifling tactical affair, … the Potomac. The federal strategy at Philippi included what was probably the …

• Philippi Covered Bridge

  … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/805 in "Philippi":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … a public meeting was held in Philippi, during which the people voted to … to a scholarly restoration of the Philippi Covered Bridge, completed in September 1991 …

• Philippi Mummies

  … Historical Society Museum near the "Philippi Covered Bridge":http://www.wvencyclopedia. … the work of Graham Hamrick, a Philippi store owner and part-time undertaker, … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1493 visited Philippi in 1963 to write a story …

• Alderson Broaddus University

  … accepted. The college moved to "Philippi":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … Broaddus College and moved to the Philippi campus. The "Great Depression" … day. The tiny college, whose early Philippi campus consisted of just three …

• Barbour County

  … , as was the county seat, "Philippi":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … in the center of the county. "Philippi’s historic covered bridge":http … Broaddus Institute moved from Clarksburg to Philippi. It was merged with Alderson Academy …

• Ida L. Reed

  … 1951) was born into a Methodist family on a hilltop farm near Philippi. One of eight children, Reed experienced many illnesses and family deaths and … given as Smith. A marker on the Arden Road north of Philippi points the way to her birthplace and home.

• Battle of Rich Mountain

  After the decisive defeat of Confederate forces on June 3, 1861, at Philippi, Brig. Gen. Robert S. Garnett, the new Confederate commander, established two defensive positions, at Laurel Hill and Rich Mountain, near present Elkins. Suspecting that the 20, …

• Guineas (Chestnut Ridge People)

  … a group of apparently mixed racial origin located primarily in Barbour, Taylor, and Harrison counties, especially near "Philippi":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1845 and "Grafton":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2141. …

• Audra State Park

  The 355-acre Audra State Park is located south of "Philippi":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1845 between U.S. 119 and U.S. 250 in Barbour County. Its forests and "rhododendron thickets":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/75 …

• Baptists

  … Baptist institutions of higher education being "Alderson-Broaddus University":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/187 in Philippi and Salem University in Salem. West Virginia Baptists have served the state and the nation in many capacities …

• History of West Virginia

  … skirmishes, and other engagements in West Virginia. The year 1861 was one of intense military activity. The "Battle of Philippi":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1846 on June 3 is sometimes regarded as the first land battle of the Civil …

• Ambrose Bierce

  … by his observations of the war in the Tygart Valley, as the war’s first battles and skirmishes occurred from "Philippi":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1846 to the Cheat and Allegheny mountains in Randolph and Pocahontas counties. An 1891 …

• Storer College

  … , and racial anxieties combined to close it. Several attempts to reopen Storer failed. Alderson-Broaddus College in Philippi acquired its endowment. Storer’s library and records were shared between Shepherd College and Virginia Union University in Richmond …

• Bridges

  … record is incomplete, but at least a dozen major timber bridges are credited to him, including the famous 1852 "Philippi bridge":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1847, and its sibling, the 1853 Barrackville bridge, both recently restored. …

• Tygart Valley River

  … Valley Head, Huttonsville, Mill Creek, Beverly, Elkins, Norton, Belington, Philippi, and Grafton. Northwest of Elkins, the river passes through … the Buckhannon River, which joins the Tygart upstream from Philippi. In a reversal of the usual pattern, the …

• Camp Carlile

  … "Benjamin F. Kelley":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1177 moved his forces out to engage the rebels of Philippi. "Francis Pierpont":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1853 received a military salute at the camp on the day of …

• University of Hard Knocks

  … were printed. New members share their stories with alumni during the annual commencement weekend that takes place about the first of June on the campus of "Alderson-Broaddus University":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/187 in Philippi.

• Indians

  … ), the Melungeons, and descendants of the Buffalo Ridge Cherokee. The Allegheny Indian Council and Cultural Center, located in Philippi, was founded about 1979. This group includes members sometimes referred to as Guineas, although some members prefer to …

• John S. Carlile

  … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2269, which was then the county seat of Randolph County, he later moved to "Philippi":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1845, then to "Clarksburg":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1204. In …

• Anna Reeves Jarvis

  Social activist Anna Reeves (September 30, 1832-May 9, 1905) was born in Culpeper County, Virginia. Her family moved to Philippi, Barbour County, in 1845. In 1852, Anna Reeves married Granville E. Jarvis, and two years later they moved to "Taylor …

• Ted Cassidy

  … , 1979) was known best for his role as Lurch in _The Addams Family_ television program. He was born in Pittsburgh and raised in Philippi. Cassidy was six feet, one inch tall by the age of 11, eventually growing to six feet, nine inches. After high school, …

• Jehovah’s Witnesses

  … complicity of government officials, in Bluefield, Clarksburg, Follansbee, Huttonsville, Keyser, Martinsburg, Morgantown, New Martinsville, Philippi, Richwood, St. Marys, Wellsburg, and Williamson. Throughout the state Jehovah’s Witnesses’ children were …

• West Virginia National Guard

  … . Federal and Confederate units from West Virginia were present at both the first land battle of the war at "Philippi":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1846 and at the Confederate surrender at Appomattox. A few ceremonial and social …

• Lemuel Chenoweth

  … of two bridges was to cross the Tygart Valley River at Philippi and the other to cross the West Fork River at … the earliest covered bridge at Beverly (1846– 47), the famous "Philippi covered bridge":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1847 ( …