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• The Monongahela River

  The Monongahela River is formed at Fairmont by the merging of the West Fork and Tygart Valley … , and another major tributary, the Youghiogheny River, enters near Pittsburgh. Fairmont and "Morgantown":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1402 are …

• Monongalia County

  … rounding up horses, and then left in the direction of Fairmont. The first railroad reached Morgantown in 1886. This was a … north along the east side of the Monongahela River from Fairmont. This line was completed to Connellsville, Pennsylvania, by 1894, …

• Fred Mooney

  … /1053 and "Bill Blizzard":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/545, as well as Keeney, and the characters in his book and his life read like a directory of West Virginia labor history. Fred Mooney committed suicide in Fairmont.

• Ephraim Franklin Morgan

  … /articles/1127 in 1897 and served with the First West Virginia Regiment during the Spanish-American War. He was city solicitor in Fairmont, 1900–01, and a judge of the Marion County Intermediate Court, 1907–13. Appointed by "Governor Henry Hatfield& …

• Geology

  … glacier impacts. Thick terraces of lake sediments still exist along the banks of the Monongahela River in the Morgantown-Fairmont area. Unique plants and animals occur in high altitude muskeg "bogs":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/583 …

• Glass Industry

  … to manufacture bottles, establishing his first plants in "Fairmont":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2231 and Clarksburg. … of employees for decades longer, Charleston closing in 1963, Fairmont in 1982, and Huntington in 1993. But unlike …

• Education

  … , a Methodist minister and principal of Fairmont Male and Female Seminary, became the … Normal School, and in 1869 the Fairmont State Regency Normal was renamed the Fairmont Branch Normal (now "Fairmont State University":http://www.wvencyclopedia. …

• Ann Kathryn Flagg

  … drama in Virginia and then toured with the American Negro Repertory Players. Later, she taught at Dunbar High School in Fairmont. In 1952, Flagg resigned her teaching position to become director of the Children’s Theater at Karamu House in Cleveland, …

• Aretas Brooks Fleming

  … October 13, 1923) was born in "Fairmont":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … of 361 men and boys at Fairmont Coal’s interconnecting Monongah mines in … -Watson family built a number of Fairmont businesses, and they retained controlling interest …

• Pete Everest

  … 10,000 hours in about 170 aircraft types. Everest was born in Fairmont. After graduating from high school, he attended Fairmont State College (now "Fairmont State University":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2233) for a …

• The Rhododendron

  … , Parkersburg, Williamstown, St. Marys, Sistersville, New Martinsville, Moundsville, Wheeling, Wellsburg, Weirton, Chester, Morgantown, Fairmont, and Pittsburgh. Summer performances of Mrs. Henry Woods’s 1863 melodrama _East Lynne_ were supplemented by …

• Television

  … 12) in Clarksburg, November 1957. The launch in June 1960 of WJPB (channel 5), now WDTV, serving Weston-Bridgeport-Clarksburg-Fairmont was followed by a two-decade hiatus. In February 1981, WLJY (channel 46) of Clarksburg began broadcasting and, in …

• Pierpont Community and Technical College

  … It previously was part of "Fairmont State University":http://www.wvencyclopedia … the West Virginia Legislature mandated that Fairmont State College Community and Technical … for a new name for the Fairmont State University Community and Technical …

• Natalie Tennant

  Secretary of State Natalie Tennant was born on December 25, 1967, in Fairmont and grew up in nearby Fairview as the youngest of seven children. She attended "West Virginia University":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1127, where she was …

• Woody Williams

  … siblings had died in the "1918 influenza epidemic":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/847. He grew up in "Fairmont":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2231 and, at 17, dropped out of high school and joined the "Civilian …

• Jorea Marple

  … , 2012. Marple was born on January 16, 1949, in Sutton. After graduating from Sutton High School, she attended "Fairmont State College":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2233 (now university) where she received her bachelor’s degree. She …

• Persian Gulf War

  … , and Charleston. In addition, members of the West Virginia Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 201st Field Artillery (Fairmont), and elements of the "West Virginia Air National Guard’s":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/179130th ( …

• Internet Service

  … ;Charleston Gazette</em>, <em>Charleston Daily Mail</em>, <em>Morgantown Dominion Post</em>, and Fairmont <em>Times West Virginian</em> went online in 1996; the <em>Huntington Herald-Dispatch</em> went …

• Katherine Johnson

  … to aid young people studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics. On December 11, a NASA software facility in Fairmont was renamed the Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility. The facility ensures that all of NASA’s …

• Sam Jones

  … football and basketball as a student at Fairmont's Dunbar High School. Jones began … the WVU Hospital was told by "Fairmont":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … Sam Jones died of cancer. He is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Fairmont.

• Woodlawn Cemetery

  Woodlawn Cemetery is a historic cemetery in "Fairmont":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2231. It is the … buried at Woodlawn, as is Boaz Fleming, the founder of Fairmont. Other burials include industrialist "James Otis Watson":https …