Monday, March 08, 2010
Flashback: What Happened on March 08, ....
• 1833 - The Virginia General Assembly passed an act authorizinga change in part of the route of the road from Middlebourne in Tyler County to the Pennsylvania state line.
• 1838 - The Virginia General Assembly passed an act establishing a ferry across the Ohio River on the property of Joseph Tomlinson in Wood County.
• 1869 - Governor Stevenson reported that President Grant had ordered all federal troops out of West Virginia.
• 1877 - The Producers’ Lubrication Oil Company was incorporated in West Virginia by the following: E. Rossman, Moses Sweetser of Parkersburg; A. B. Graham, William H. Bachtell, John Schafer, S. P. Schilling, Abram Smith, Henry Wright of Volcano, Wood County; and George Merrill of Newburyport, MA. The company’s main office was at Volcano,
• 1879 - The West Virginia Legislature passed an act authorizing West Virginia University to grant right of way to the Pittsburgh, West Virginia and Southern Railroad through the university’s grounds. It was approved by the governor on March 11.
• 1879 - The West Virginia Legislature adopted a resolution proposing an amendment to the Eighth Article of the West Virginia Constitution, concerning the judicial branch of government.
• 1888 - Author and illustrator David Hunter Strother, known as “Porte Crayon,“ died in Charles Town, Jefferson County.
• 1888 - The Economy Washing Machine Company was incorporated in West Virginia by the following: Charles W. Snyder, Alfred W. Ott, James Clarke, F. Hanhaucer, and Francis P. Murray, all of Philadelphia. The company’s main office was in Philadelphia.
• 1890 - The American Cushioned Chair Seat Company was incorporated in West Virginia by the following: Wilton C. Donn, William M. Cuthbert, Marion L. Holden of Brooklyn, NY; Thomas Soden of East Orange, NJ; and Frank C. Donn of Washington, D. C. The company’s main office was in Brooklyn
• 1893 - The extra session of the Twenty-first West Virginia Legislature adjourned in Charleston.
• 1904 - The first laundry in Williamson, Mingo County, opened.
• 1935 - The West Virginia Legislature passed an act providing workmen’s compensation to victims of silicosis. At least 476 workers, most migrant African-Americans died from silicosis, caused from inhalation of silica rock particles under inadequate safety conditions during construction of the Hawks Nest Tunnel at Alloy, Fayette County, for the New-Kanawha Power Company, a subsidiary of the Union Carbide Corporation. Fifty years later, some studies placed the death toll as high as 764, making it the worst industrial disaster in United States history.
• 1960 - Coal mine fire in the Holden Mine 22 of the Island Creek Coal Company, Logan County, killed 18. Governor Underwood was later criticized for covering up the responsibility of Island Creek, for whom he accepted the position of Executive Vice-President several weeks after leaving office.
• 1974 - Five hundred coal miners marched at Coonskin Park in Charleston in protest to the restrictions placed on gasoline by Governor Moore. Of the 500, 50 then marched to the Governor’s Mansion, where they met with Moore.
• 1992 - The West Virginia Legislature passed a $20 million capital investment jobs program.
• 1992 - A group of Berkeley County residents announced it would opposed a proposed DuPont hazardous waste dump at Falling Waters.
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, there is always one in a community that can’t stand to have a good time without DRAMA. Ours was and is Mrs. W. (and just 2 vowels).