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On January 29, 1873, railroad officials gathered at Hawks Nest in Fayette County to drive the last spike on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. The C&O, as it…
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Jedediah Hotchkiss was born in Windsor, New York, on November 3, 1828. He also developed an interest in geology and surveying while teaching school in…
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Railroader Ralph Swinburn was born in England on August 4, 1805.As a boy, he was working on a coal-hauling railway, when he met George Stephenson, a…
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The Great Bend Tunnel, also known as the Big Bend, was completed in present-day Summers County on September 12, 1872.At more than a mile long, it cut off…
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On September 2, 1963, the Centennial exhibits train wrapped up its tour of West Virginia with a stop in South Charleston.During the summer of 1963, the…