A Look Back

By William “Skip” Deegans While Rainelle is well known for its kit homes that were sold by Sears Roebuck &...

By William “Skip” Deegans Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, described West Virginia’s Elizabeth Winn Blake...

By William “Skip” Deegans Two grand American hotels, The Greenbrier and the Mount Washington Hotel, were built, in large measure,...

By William “Skip” Deegans Seventy-five years ago, this June, Greenbrier Valley residents had a treat when the Meyer Davis Orchestra...

West Virginia Regional History Center. Advertisement from the Richmond Dispatch, 1873. By William “Skip” Deegans Using the labor of recent...

By William “Skip” Deegans Following the Civil War, surviving Southern officers were often treated like celebrities who were featured at...

Photo from Marse Henry By William “Skip” Deegans Henry Watterson, one of the most prominent orators of his day, spoke...

By William “Skip” Deegans Shown in the photograph is the West Virginia Building that was built for the 1904 World’s...

By William “Skip” Deegans In the 1920s, C. D. McClung was the Lewisburg distributor for Delco-Light plants. The plant consisted...

Photo courtesy of the West Virginia University West Virginia Regional History Center. By William “Skip” Deegans Development of western Greenbrier...