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• Mannington

  … on U.S. 250 west of "Fairmont":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … in May 1861. Confederates raided nearby Fairmont during the 1863 "Jones-Imboden … possible to travel by streetcar to Fairmont, Clarksburg, and many smaller communities. …

• Marion County

  … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/805 at Fairmont. Early settlers began to move … .org/articles/2090 were Marion Countians. Fairmont native "Mary Lou Retton& … Riches_, is set in a fictionalized Fairmont. National championship-winning football coach & …

• Consolidation Coal Company

  … purchased a majority interest in the Fairmont Coal Company, which itself had consolidated … Fleming-Watson family, principal owners of Fairmont Coal Company, found a solid … of the stock of the Consolidation Coal, Fairmont Coal, and Somerset Coal companies. …

• Paul Marshall

  … Wine Cellars in Dunbar; Blaker’s Mill at Jackson’s Mill; buildings at Bulltown Historic Area; High Gate Carriage House in Fairmont; and the James C. McGrew House in Kingwood. Marshall retired in 1998 and moved to South Carolina. A member and officer in …

• Ruth Ann Musick

  … She came to teach mathematics and English at Fairmont State College (now "Fairmont … /articles/1044, with Walter Barnes of Fairmont State and Patrick Gainer of West … Folks Say’’ and ‘‘Sassafras Tea.’’ Musick died in Fairmont. She bequeathed to Fairmont …

• National Bank of Commerce

  … when it was purchased by Huntington Bancshares in 1993. Huntington Banks also purchased CB&T Financial Corporation of Fairmont. Huntington Banks first entered West Virginia in 1989 when it acquired First National Bank of Morgantown. It later purchased …

• Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper

  … on either guitar or banjo. They worked for a time at radio station "WMMN":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1327 Fairmont and at various locales outside the state. However, the highpoint of their radio careers was a decade (1947–57) at & …

• McKendree Hospital

  … No. 2 became known as McKendree Number 2. Miners Hospital No. 1 was located at Welch, with No. 3 in Fairmont. McKendree Hospital started providing medical care on December 30, 1901. An interesting feature of the legislation that created these hospitals …

• Rose Agnes Rolls Cousins

  … now University). While growing up in "Fairmont":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles … State College. She eventually returned to Fairmont to care for her parents and … majority of her working life at Fairmont Clinic, where she became manager of …

• Louise McNeill

  … https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1905, "Concord College":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1498 and "Fairmont State":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2233. McNeill's archive is housed at the West Virginia University …

• John Camillus McWhorter

  … and early settler. McWhorter was educated in the local public schools and at Fairmont State Normal School (now Fairmont State University). He received a law degree from West Virginia University law school in 1894 and …

• Normal Schools

  … other normals were established, in "Fairmont":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … normal schools matured into Marshall University, Fairmont State University, West Liberty State … system. All the normals but Fairmont were essentially high schools in …

• Herschel Coombs Ogden

  Newspaperman Herschel Coombs Ogden (January 12, 1869-March 31, 1943) was born near Fairmont. In 1888, with a bachelor of arts degree from West Virginia University, he relocated to "Wheeling":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1168 and entered …

• Michael Owens

  … had come full circle. He returned to West Virginia in 1909 to establish a state-of-the-art bottle factory at "Fairmont":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2231, and in 1916 he launched at "Charleston":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Mine Safety

  … in some other states. Meanwhile, mine disasters continued unabated. In December 1907, a massive explosion ripped through the "Fairmont Coal Company’s No. 6 and 8 mines in Monongah":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2012, killing at least …

• Pepperoni Rolls

  … soft treat that you eat right out of your hand. "Fairmont":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2231 baker Giuseppe ‘‘Joseph’’ … . Filippo Colasessano, also a former miner, opened his own Fairmont lunch spot, and in 1957, Colasessano’s son, ‘‘ …

• Philippi Covered Bridge

  … steel girders and two new intermediate concrete piers. Originally, the bridge was an important component of the Beverly and Fairmont road, a major connector to the "Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/584. The …

• Little Jimmy Dickens

  … quot;WJLS":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1326 Beckley and "WMMN":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1327 Fairmont. His entertainment career took him to several radio stations until 1949 when he joined the _Grand Ole Opry_ at WSM …

• Doddridge County

  … www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1628 was born near Grove, November 9, 1874. Neely began his political career as mayor of Fairmont. Until his death from cancer in 1958, Neely was a dynamic and controversial figure in state and national Democratic politics. …

• Public Health

  … /articles/760 (1897) and the construction of "Miners Hospitals":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1819 in Welch, Fairmont, and McKendree after 1899. In 1908, responding to a worldwide epidemic, the Board of Health recommended that West …

• Radio

  … each, Parkersburg with four, Clarksburg and Huntington with three stations each, and Beckley, Bluefield, Morgantown, Logan, Welch, and Fairmont with two stations each. As television emerged in the 1950s as the dominant household medium, radio survived …

• Folklore

  … schoolteacher Dora Lee Newman and the Fairmont High School class of 1916. … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1539 of Fairmont State College (now University) and Gainer … The West Virginia Folklife Center at Fairmont State University, established under the …

• Alan Mollohan

  … father in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was born in Fairmont on May 14, 1943. For six years, beginning in seventh grade … University’s College of Law before beginning a legal career with a Fairmont law firm in 1970. First elected to the House in 1982, …

• Monongah Mine Disaster

  On December 6, 1907, a massive explosion ripped through the Fairmont Coal Company’s No. 6 and 8 mines in Monongah, "Marion County":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1504. The powerful blast, which shook the earth and was heard several miles …

• Monongahela Culture

  … its major tributaries, north of the vicinity of present Moundsville, and along the Monongahela River, north of present Fairmont. Because of the smaller floodplains in the northern Ohio River drainage, the Monongahela people also occupied numerous upland …