Jan 11, 2025 · Ice and snow lay thick at the Allegheny Front at Dolly Sods in West Virginia. (Photo courtesy J. Richie Photography) Polar Vortex of 2014; This January–March 2014 cold wave brought life-threatening cold to much of the Midwest and eastern U.S., including West Virginia. Temperatures plummeted, with readings near or below -20°F in many parts of West Virginia, compounded by severe wind chills.

Nov 19, 2024 · Home to its first capital, Wheeling, the panhandle's origins date back to the 1700s and a contentious boundary dispute between Virginia and Pennsylvania that helped shape the history of the U.S. David Sibray visits the monument that marks the southern end of the northern panhandle and the Ellicott Line near Littleton, West Virginia. According to Weirton-based historian Paul Zuros, both ...

Oct 21, 2024 · BERKELEY SPRINGS, W.Va. — Something about a castle evokes thoughts of murder, mayhem, and mystery. Perhaps it’s the architecture—the stonework and castellated towers. Secrets seem to surround these structures. Berkeley Castle in West Virginia is …

Jan 3, 2025 · Though only two hours from the Washington beltway, the Canaan Valley receives more snow than the snowiest reporting station in Maine and a shorter growing season than Fairbanks, Alaska.. What circumstances lead to this strange phenomenon? According to scientists, the reasons are as complex as they are simple.

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Nov 9, 2024 · Canyon Rim Visitor Center / New River Gorge Bridge A boardwalk leads visitors from the Canyon Rim Visitor Center to views of the New River Gorge Bridge.. Seated at the edge of the New River Gorge, the Canyon Rim Visitor Center overlooks the gorge at one of its most scenic locales. It includes a boardwalk and stairway to …

Jan 14, 2025 · The program is open to resident undergraduate students from families with an adjusted gross income of $65,000 or less. (WVU Photo/Jennifer Shephard) MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia University is launching a new program that will provide funding to cover the costs of tuition and university fees ...

1 day ago · West Virginia, seen here at the New River Gorge, is often rated one of the safest U.S. states in which to travel and vacation.. Our West Virginia Travel Guide includes everything you'll need to arrange a West Virginia vacation in a matter of minutes. West Virginia Explorer is, in effect, a travel guide of many thousands of pages, but here we've consolidated information to …

Jan 13, 2025 · According to historical accounts, the last eastern wolf prowled the remote Allegheny Mountains in east-central West Virginia until 1897, when 17-year-old Daniel Stoffer Hamrick shot and killed it in Webster County.. By then, wolves had already vanished from neighboring, more developed states, eradicated in Ohio by 1842 and Pennsylvania by 1892.

Jan 14, 2024 · The former publisher of the West Virginia Hillbilly newspaper, the late Jim Comstock, believed that residents of the valleys in southern Appalachia first used the term to describe their neighbors in the mountains, though they meant no ill intent.. Comstock cherished the term "hillbilly" and had attempted to set the record straight on many assumptions about West Virginia and Appalachian culture ...