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Buffalo Creek Disaster

Flood on February 26, 1972 which killed 118 people.

Civilian Conservation Corps Legacy

County Commissioners' Association of West Virginia - Early History of West Virginia Counties (Wayback Machine)

GenDisasters.com - Events That Touched Our Ancestor's Lives - West Virginia

GenDisasters.com, chronicles the events that touched our ancestors' lives - train wrecks, fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, storms, mining explosions, ship wrecks, drownings, and accidents. Transcribed newspaper accounts, excerpts from historical books and photographs detail hundreds of life's tragedies that our ancestors' endured, from the 1800s to the 1950s. New material is being transcribed and added daily. Searchable. [The original link is gone. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820

Consists of 15,000 pages of original historical material documenting the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West including Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky & West Virginia from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century.

West Virginia (WV) Cyclopedia

User driven directory for West Virginia cultural and natural history. Includes directories by city, county, and historical period as well as directories for waterways, mountain ranges, and natural areas.

West Virginia County History Resources

From the West Virginia State Archives.

West Virginia History Timeline

West Virginia State CCC Museum Association

WVExplorer.com - West Virginia History

West Virginia guide to history and recreation by region. Includes links to historical resources by county.