Charles Town Farmers Market, WV
The Charles Town Farmers Market,
Saturday 8:00am until 12:00 noon, from April 13th through October 26th 2013.
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The 10 SAFEST CITIES In WEST VIRGINIA For 2019
The 10 SAFEST CITIES In WEST VIRGINIA For 2019
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The purpose of this video is to determine where the safest cities to live are in West Virginia. Those places where crime is usually something you hear about on Facebook, but not from your local paper.
We analyzed cities in West Virginia with a population of more than 5,000 using the latest FBI crime data.
Here are the 10 Safest CITIES in WEST VIRGINIA for 2019:
1. Grafton
2. Charles Town
3. Weirton
4. Morgantown
5. Oak Hill
6. Nitro
7. Fairmont
8. Buckhannon
9. Vienna
10. Bridgeport
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Ghostly Things Are Happening in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Tuesday is Halloween, the spookiest day of the year. Some people like to use the holiday to visit scary attractions like haunted houses. In historic Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, a ghost tour takes visitors to places that are said to be haunted. But that’s no surprise to locals, who say they often see and hear paranormal activity. VOA’s Deborah Block has the spine-chilling story.
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George Rutherford's Charles Town 1935-today by Jim Surkamp
Growing up in Charles Town, the Iron Ladies of the NAACP and George's Wayback Ancestors
Made possible with the generous, community-minded support of American Public University System. More at apus.edu. All posts and videos under civilwarscholars.com are intended to encourage discussion and understanding about out local social economic and political history.
Music by Jim Surkamp (guitar); Shana Aisenberg (shanasongs.com); Big Circle - Cam Millar (cammillar.com)
Image Credits:
1 & 2. Montage - George Rutherford - Jim Surkamp; See Yourself In the Movies - Charles Town, 1941;
3 & 4. 9 Hessey Street, Charles Town, WV - Google Maps;
5. Lula Lee Rutherford - George Rutherford;
6 & 7. Montage Ranson - Google Maps; Miller Chemical ad - August 11, 1943, p. 4 Spirit of Jefferson;
8. Horse stables Charles Town Races - See Yourself in the Movies - Charles Town 1941.
9. Grandstand and Judges Stand - Charles Town Races - See Yourself in the Movies - Charles Town 1941;
10. James Taylor - the James Taylor collection and jcblackhistory.org;
11. Charles Town Race Track, ca. 1945, parking lot and buses. wvgeohistory.org;
12. Charles Town Race Track, 1940's. Jockeys, trainers, and women sitting around a table drinking and smoking. Eddie Smith (left front), Louise Corbin (second woman from left), Martin Bletzacker (first man on right), Norman Corbin (center, wearing tie). wvgeohistory.org;
13. Eagle Avenue School - jcblackhistory.org;
14,15 & 16. Montage - Charles Town, WV - Google Maps; Eagle Avenue School - jcblackhistory.org;
17. West Washington Street - See Yourself in the Movies - Charles Town 1941;
18. Paying parking meter - See Yourself in the Movies - Charles Town 1941;
19. Principal O.M. Stewart - jcblackhistory.org;
20. Page Jackson Class of 1947 - African-Americans of Jefferson County. createdin 2009 by the Jefferson County Black History Preservation Society, Inc. p. 84.
21. Unknown veteran - justjefferson.com;
22. Madeline Lawson McIver - jcblackhistory.org;
23. Russell Roper - courtesy Russell Roper and justjefferson.com;
24. E.M. Dandridge - jcblackhistory.org;
25. football players - video by Jim Surkamp, identified by Jim Surkamp
26. site of football field and sewage field next to modern-day Board of Education Building - Google Maps;
27. football players - video by Jim Surkamp identified in video by Jim Taylor;
28. football players - video by Jim Surkamp identified in video by Jim Taylor;
29. First graduating class at Page jackson 1942 - African-Americans of Jefferson County. created in 2009 by the Jefferson County Black History Preservation Society, Inc. p. 82.
30. Teachers at Eagle School and Page Jackson - jcblackhistory.org;
31. Class of 1953 - jcblackhistory.org;
32. Class with Miss Annie Watkins - jcblackhistory.org;
33. Goldye Johnson - First graduating class at Page jackson 1942 - African-Americans of Jefferson County. createdin 2009 by the Jefferson County Black History Preservation Society, Inc. p. 82.
34. Page-Jackson High School - jcblackhistory.org;
35. Bunsen Burner - wikipedia.org Page-Jackson High School - jcblackhistory.org;
36. NAACP logo - wikipedia.org;
37. Marshall University - marshall.edu;
38. James Alvin Tolbert - jcblackhistory.org;
39. People marching - January 25, 1990, p. 1 Spirit of Jefferson;
40. Article on Inspector Grove June 9, 1988, p. 1 Spirit of Jefferson;
41. Article NAACP Report - December 18, 1980, p. 1 Spirit of Jefferson;
42. Bertha Fox Jones - October 6, 2003 Spirit of Jefferson;
43. Article Dispute Flares August 18, 1988, p. 1 - Spirit of Jefferson;
44. People marching - January 25, 1990, p. 1 Spirit of Jefferson;
45. George Rutherford, Sen. Robert C. Byrd, and Jim Tolbert;
46. John W. Rutherford death certificate - wvculture.org;
47. John W. Rutherford - courtesy George Rutherford;
48. Lewis Rutherford page ancestry.com;
49. Dr. Ebenezer Coe - ancestry.com;
50. Abraham Lincoln by George Peter Alexander Healy - wikipedia.org
51. silhouettes of playing children by D. H. Strother - Harpers Monthly Sept., 1974, p. 457.
52. town crier - pagespeed.com;
53. horses and trainer - See Yourself in the Movies - Charles Town 1941;
Bar Hopping in Charleston, West Virginia
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In this episode of Open Tab, we bar hop on Capitol St in Charleston, WV. We enjoy a WVU game and a feast of Greek/American fusion at Adelphia Sports Bar and Grille, listen to some seriously talented local bands at The Boulevard Tavern, and finish the night with some delicious bar grub and Pumpkin Shock Top at Sam's Uptown.
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Wreath Laying Ceremony at Charles Washington's Grave - Charles Town, WV
16SEP11: The opening ceremony of the 225th Anniversary of Charles Town started with a wreath laying ceremony at the grave of Colonel Charles and Mildred Washington in Charles Town, WV. Charles Washington passed away on September 16, 1799 a few months before his older brother, the first President of the United States of America, George Washington and was the founder of Charles Town. Charles Town Mayor Peggy A. Smith addresses the crowd and lays the wreath while the Rough Rider Honor Guard presents the colors while playing Taps. This area was part of the original tract of land associated with Charles Washington's home 'Happy Retreat' and was overgrown. In recent years it was acquired by the City of Charles Town which did an excellent job of clearing the trees and building the stone wall around the graves.
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Moundsville: Charles Manson and the former West Virginia state penitentiary in Moundsville, WV
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Haunted History Walks of Summersville WV
Haunted walking tour in Nicholas County featuring Haunted Heartland Tours owner and author Sherri Brake.
St. Charles Ghost Tours
This is for Dr. Micheal Henry for St. Charles Ghost Tours on Main street.
Harpers Ferry - Video Tour of Historic Town & Attractions, West Virginia - USA
Harpers Ferry - West Virginia - Short Video Tour of Historic Town & Attractions, USA - May 2012.
HD Video Tour of Historic Harpers Ferry Town, Shenandoah Canal, Shenandoah River, Railroad Bridge and Tunnel, The Point...
Most Haunted River In WV
Arden, WV
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Is Charles Manson place haunted
nightclub bar restaurant charleston west virginia ghost hunt paranormal investigation
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Out In The Coal Patch: Life in the Coal Mining Towns of Western Pennsylvania
Lecture by Gary Rogers
Oakmont Historical Society Lecture Series
Oakmont Carnegie Library
11/27/2017
Just as coal provided energy for the steel industry, coal provided a way life for coal miners. In this Oakmont Historical Society lecture, we take a look up the Allegheny River and into the lives of the miners and community life out in the coal patch.
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A Tour of Limerock West Virginia
Created by the influx of workers to the coal mines and timber industry Limerock became a boom town with the construction of the railroad from Elkins to Thomas. It was so named for the limestone quarry that was in the area. When the boom ended Limerock soon became one of the many abandoned towns in Tucker County.
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West Virginia's bleak outlook (2011) | 7.30
The struggling state of West Virginia is one of the hardest hit by the United States' lagging economy.
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LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: Recently in the United States, there was finally a bit of good economic news with unemployment dropping to its lowest level in more than two and half years. But overall, the economy remains in a slump and some parts of the country have been particularly hard hit.
A recent poll shows almost every American state is pessimistic about the future, but the bleakest outlook of all is in West Virginia.
North America correspondent Michael Brissenden went to find out why.
MICHAEL BRISSENDEN, REPORTER: Few places in America know economic hardship quite like West Virginia. Here in McDowell County in particular, hardship and struggle have been the songlines for generations.
ALAN JOHNSTON: My grandmother on my daddy's side was a musician. She played banjo (inaudible). And my dad was a ribbon-winning old-time fiddler in this area.
MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: Like a lot of people here, Alan Johnston's family have music in their blood, but coal dust in their lungs.
ALAN JOHNSTON: My dad he worked in the mines for 20-some years and then he got so bad off he had to come out of the mines. He got silicosis in his lungs and black lung and they had to remove one of his lungs as a matter of fact. My brother, he worked in the mines. His name's Clayton. And he got his disability in - he's in his early '70s now, but his health is shot.
MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: West Virginia was built on coal. From the early 1900s until the 1960s, a coal rush filled the valleys or hollers, as they're called around here, with jobs. These were tough people and coal mining was tough work, but it's been even tougher without it.
JOHN FANNING, WEST VIRGINIA SENATOR: I think the loss of population is the biggest problem. Up and down this hollow here and in the area around Welchinaw (phonetic spelling), we had 100,000 people. We had bookos (phonetic spelling) of stores. We had at one time 13 car dealerships in this county. We have none today.
MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: State Senator John Fanning is a long-time local. This part of West Virginia has unique problems, he says, but America as a whole should be better at protecting itself.
JOHN FANNING: We have outsourced our jobs. Where do we have anything made in the United States or where do we have anything made in West Virginia? It's not only McDowell County, it's not only West Virginia, it's the United States of America. Jobs.
MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: When he's not engaged in state politics, John Fanning at least has one of the few thriving businesses in his dying town. His family have been the undertakers here for the past 80 years.
JOHN FANNING: We are a county of old people, so the funeral business still prosperous because we're dealing in older people. This is a nice place to live, but it doesn't provide a lot of the necessities that young people need.
MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: And many of the young people who have stayed have been trapped in a downward spiral of unemployment and addiction.
BRYAN: There ain't no opportunities. Cheque, food stamps, drugs - that's about it.
LOCAL WOMAN: This place is really awful, it really is.
BRYAN: There ain't nothing to do.
MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: McDowell County has some of the highest poverty rates, lowest education levels and biggest drug problems of anywhere outside of America's big cities. The urban ghettos are mostly home to a black underclass. Out here it's white.
Today just a few hundred metres from the Fanning funeral home, Brian and his friends are busy stripping one of the empty buildings of almost anything of value.
BRYAN: All my life I've been on drugs.
MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: And that's a big - I mean, a lot of people on that round here?
BRYAN: Everything you see round here's on drugs.
LOCAL WOMAN: I've got a 13-year-old son; he's locked up.
MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: What did your parents do?
BRYAN: Coal miners and nurses. You know what I mean? That's about it. Now you gotta have a college education and all that. I guess we was left back in the pack.
MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: It's not difficult to see why this would be a place with a less-than-positive view of the future. The last 50 years has been tough on West Virginia. But that bleak outlook has bred a black humour, and as they like to say around here, this is one of the few places in the United States that's hardly felt the effects of the current great recession.
JEAN BATTLO, WRITER: We've been down so long it looks like up to us - you know that saying? Actually, psychologically, socially, I don't feel personally that we're feeling the nation's economic crunch the way others have because we've already been there, we're already there.
Moundsville - Documentary Teaser 2
Moundsville is a documentary about the West Virginia town of Moundsville--its past, present, and future. Pre-order the film here: vimeo.com/ondemand/moundsville
Directed by David Bernabo and John Miller
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After the last election, every media story about small town America seemed to focus on the same stuff – Trump, opioids, that factory that would never reopen… But what if you went to a small town, and didn’t ask about those things… What if you went simply to ask people about their lives, without connecting their answers to those bigger media narratives… What if you didn’t ask them what they thought about some national politician or global corporation, and instead tried to find out about their future – and their past…
You go to Moundsville, West Virginia, because it teeters on the edge between prosperity and ghost town, and because it has a storybook past. It had factories that made everything under the sun – shoes, toys, glass, whips, even airplanes. It could be Flint, Youngstown or Birmingham.
You also go to Moundsville because it’s a place where people know that the ghosts of America are not only the ones that make us nostalgic for the roaring twenties, the Baby Boom and the moon landing. Thousands of years before the age of Trump and Obama, while Julius Caesar conquered Europe, Moundsville, not far from the oldest human settlement on the continent, was a commercial hub of a prehistoric trading empire.
Every day you spend in Moundsville, you reckon with evidence that empires fall and rise, that America was great two thousand years ago, and will, in different ways, be great two thousand years from now, and that maybe only the ghosts know the truth about how we got here, and where we’re going.
The 10 Most Redneck Cities In West Virginia Explained.
Where do the most rednecks in West Virginia live? We dug into the math to find out. Rated R for Redneck.