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• Jews

  … towns dwindled, in many cases, to none. Congregations that once existed in cities and towns such as Bluefield, Clarksburg, Fairmont, Keystone, Kimball, Logan, Martinsburg, Parkersburg, Weirton, Welch, and Williamson are gone. Today, West Virginia’s Jews, …

• Johnnie Johnson

  Rock ’n’ roll pioneer Johnnie Johnson (July 8, 1924-April 13, 2005) was born in "Fairmont":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2231. He began playing the piano at the age of five. The son of a coal miner, Johnson grew up listening to ‘‘ …

• West Virginia Education Association

  … in the first school law. In 1865, the state superintendent called a state convention of teachers to meet in "Fairmont":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2231, and the association grew from this meeting. Thus began a period during which WVEA …

• West Virginia Folklore Society

  … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/363 of Fairmont State Normal School (now " … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1539 of Fairmont State College, revived the society. As … Gabor West Virginia Folklife Center at Fairmont State University, which houses the …

• Mother Jones

  … a year in the New River coalfield, Jones was sent to the Fairmont field. Two weeks after a strike was called in June … where she held meetings and gained union recognition in the Fairmont and Winding Gulf coalfields. She joined the steelworkers’ organizing …

• West Virginia State Teachers’ Association

  … the direction of a board of directors and officers. In 1907, Black teachers from northern areas such as Fairmont, Clarksburg, Elkins, Grafton, and Buckhannon formed a separate organization called the Northern Teachers’ Association. No information exists …

• Lemuel Chenoweth

  … were taken for bridges on the Beverly-Fairmont Turnpike which had been authorized in … River at Hunsaker’s Ferry near Fairmont. He received the contracts for these … the Barrackville covered bridge on the Fairmont-Wheeling Turnpike (1853). His Beverly bridge …

• Clarksburg

  … wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2247 to Clarksburg and construction of a new federal building and a new building to house "Fairmont State University’s":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2233 Clarksburg branch. The city has a daily newspaper, …

• John Knowles

  … (September 16, 1926-November 29, 2001) was born in "Fairmont":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2231. He attained … Riches,_ set in and around ‘‘Middleburg,’’ apparently a fictional Fairmont, was Knowles’s notable use of a West Virginia coal …

• Wheeling Suspension Bridge

  … followed by a tour of French suspension bridges. His first success came when he was appointed chief engineer of the Fairmont Bridge (1841–42) across the Schuylkill River at Philadelphia, which served as the prototype for the Wheeling Suspension Bridge. …

• Tom Kromer

  … Grace Thornburg and Czech immigrant Albert Kromer, a coal miner and glass worker. The Kromers also lived at times in Fairmont, Kingwood, and Williamstown. Best-known for his first novel, _Waiting for Nothing_ (1935), Kromer chronicled the plight of the …

• Women’s Suffrage

  … clubs sprang up in the urban centers of West Virginia’s northern counties, with the most active clubs in Wheeling and Fairmont. Support had increased enough by 1913 for the "House of Delegates":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/502 to …

• Coal Industry

  … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2193, a Fairmont lawyer and governor of West … Watson-Fleming-Camden syndicate, or the ‘‘Fairmont Ring’’ as some unaffectionately called … org/articles/1576; and the Monongalia-Fairmont coalfield wars, which occurred between …

• Coal Mine Disasters

  … make it easier to attract new workers, with Stuart becoming Lochgelly and Parral becoming Summerlee. On December 6, 1907, the Fairmont Coal Company’s interconnected Nos. 6 and 8 mines at "Monongah":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2012 …

• Lewis County

  … southern terminus of regional electric trolley car service, connecting it and Jane Lew on an hourly schedule with Clarksburg and Fairmont. The first paved roads were built in the mid-1920s. Weston’s Main Avenue remained a thriving commercial center until …

• Coalfield Baseball

  … financed teams to help unify their work forces in towns from Fairmont to Gary, and from Helen, Tams, Fireco, and Switchback to … had played outfield for all-Black coalfield teams in Alabama and in Fairmont, on his way up to Homestead near Pittsburgh. When a …

• Youghiogheny Forest Colony

  … by Frank Reeves. The colony is on the headwaters of the Youghiogheny River, which originates nearby. Reeves, born in 1886 in Fairmont, attended West Virginia University, received a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University (1916), and traveled the world as a …

• John Zontini

  … at "Marshall College":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1529 (now University), including 200 yards in a 60-0 win over Fairmont State. His season record of most yards per rush at 9.5 still stands at Marshall. Choosing a professional baseball …

• Morgantown

  … A branch line of the "Baltimore & Ohio Railroad":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/336 arrived in 1886, from Fairmont, but did not continue northward from Morgantown until 1894. The arrival of the railroad and the discovery of oil, gas, …

• Morgantown & Kingwood Railroad

  In the late 1800s, the Fairmont, Morgantown & Pittsburgh Railroad was constructed … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/336 at Fairmont with the Cumberland, Maryland-Pittsburgh line … M&K Junction and the Fairmont, Morgantown & Pittsburgh Railroad at …

• Mormons

  … ;Charleston":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1089, and "Fairmont":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2231. Each passing … a region. In 1979, a second stake was organized at Fairmont and a third one followed in Huntington in 1982. At …

• Literature

  … .org/articles/84 (1919–80), whose suspense novel, _Night of the Hunter_ (1953), was a National Book Award finalist. Fairmont native "John Knowles":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1213 (1926–2001) rose to enduring prominence for _A Separate …

• Locks and Dams

  … of navigable water. The "Monongahela River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2018 is formed a mile south of Fairmont, where the West Fork and the Tygart Valley River merge. From here the river flows in a northeasterly direction for 128 …

• A. James Manchin

  … .org/articles/1484, was elected governor in 2004, and reelected in 2008. In 2010, he was elected to the U.S. Senate following the death of "Robert C. Byrd":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/756. A.J. Manchin died in Fairmont.

• Joe Manchin

  Senator Joseph ‘‘Joe’’ Anthony Manchin III was born August 24, 1947, in Fairmont. He grew up in the Marion County town of Farmington, where he worked in his grandfather’s store, Manchin Grocery, and his father’s furniture store. After graduation from …