Page 3 Flashcards
What was the name of the Parkersburg boarding school for young women established by the Sisters of the Visitation?
DeSales Heights
Which national television reporter was in Wayne on June 17, 1961 for a celebration officially renaming a bridge across Twelvepole Creek in his honor?
Brinkley
Which community was the site of a scaffold collapse at a Monongahela Power Company station that killed 51 construction workers?
Willow Island
What is the name of the dam located near the Summers County community of Hinton?
Bluestone
What was the name of the McDowell County railroad worker who is hanged in Welsh after being convicted of murder in 1894?
Hardy
What was the name of the newspaper first published in 1824 by John S Gallaher that was devoted mainly to the interests of women?
Ladies Garland
In which county is Watters Smith Memorial State Park located?
Harrison
Who was the Berkeley County native that served as you as the United States Attorney General from 1838 to 1840?
Grundy
Who is the white supremacist leader an author of the Turner Diaries who establishes headquarters at a compound in Pocahontas County?
Pierce
Who is the Huntington native who became the first African-American basketball player at Marshall and later was named the NBA list of the 50 greatest players in the league history?
Greer
Who is the railroad conductor memorialized for his heroic acts in the folk song “The Wreck on the C&O”?
Alley
