West Virginia Archives and History is pleased to announce that Dr. Mary Montgomery Lindquist of Lewisburg will be recognized as West Virginia History Heroes during a West Virginia History Day at the Legislature program and ceremony to be held at the Culture Center on the Capitol Complex in Charleston on Wednesday, Mar. 12. Dr. Lindquist was nominated by the Greenbrier Historical Society (GHS).
A member of the board of directors for more than ten years, Mary Montgomery Lindquist is chair of the education committee of the GHS and past chair of the membership committee. In her current role, she is creating a better interface with county schools. On the membership committee, Dr. Lindquist finalized a re-vamp of the fee structure and helped create a new brochure. She also awas an advocate for more attention to members and an assessment of their opinions and needs. Lindquist has served on many home tour committees, where she contributed her expertise in preparing homes for display and opened her own historic home for tours and fundraising events.
West Virginia History Heroes are nominated by historical, genealogical, preservation, museum, patriotic or like organizations from across the state. The purpose of this annual award is to give state- level recognition to individuals chosen for dedicated service on behalf of an organization’s programs or for a recent significant contribution to state and local history through research, interpretation, publication, or preservation. The West Virginia History Hero award is a one-time only recognition.
The 2025 History Hero awards program is set to begin at 9:30 a.m. in the State Theater at the Culture Center and will conclude before 11 a.m. Honorees’ local legislators have been invited to participate in the ceremony at the Culture Center, time and legislative session permitting.
West Virginia History Day at the Legislature was begun by the West Virginia Archives and History Commission in 1997 and is officially designated by the commission as a special day to recognize the state’s rich and varied history. This annual event, during which groups from around the state provide historic displays in the capital, is now in its twenty-ninth year. This year more than three dozen groups have registered to have displays in the upper rotunda of the capital, where we will share some of our space with Tourism Day.
In addition to the Archives and History Commission, co-sponsors of West Virginia History Day are the Mining Your History Foundation, Preservation Alliance of WV, Inc., WV Association of Museums, WV Department of Arts, Culture and History, WV Historical Society, and WV Humanities Council.