The Haunted History of the West Virginia Penitentiary: Afterlife with No Parole, Paperback - Sherri Brake

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Reducere. Built on the site of a Civil War camp ravaged by disease, the Ohio State Reformatory first opened in 1896 to reform young offenders but eventually ...

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Reducere. DescriptionBuilt on the site of a Civil War camp ravaged by disease, the Ohio State Reformatory first opened in 1896 to reform young offenders but ...

Reducere. DescriptionThere were ninety-four executions at the West Virginia Penitentiary. Ninety-four souls that crossed the threshold separating life and de...

In 1863, the newly formed West Virginia lacked a state penitentiary to house convicted felons. As a result, construction began in July 1866 on the ...

Reducere. In the early 1800s, the Bell family of Robertson County, Tennessee, was preyed upon by a strange creature that also terrorized the community, tortu...

Reducere. Thomas Jefferson developed the idea for the Virginia State Penitentiary and set the standard for the future of the American prison system. Designed...

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Reducere. This first collection, in prose memoir and poetry, of the work of a Navajo poet and teacher describes attending a government school for Indian chil...

Reducere. DescriptionThrilling stories of supernatural occurences in West Virginia, including the restless spirits of Harpers Ferry, the legendary Mothman of...

Reducere. Bringing Down the Mountains provides insight into how mountaintop removal has affected the people and the land of southern West Virginia. It examin...

Reducere. Awards🏆Second Place (2008) - IndieFab awards - (Regional Book)Contributor(s): Author: Rebecca J. BaileyMatewan Before the Massacre provides the fir...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the mid-1950s, a new genre of novelty music emerged that mixed humor and horror. The result: Monster Music Suddenly, jukeboxes were f...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Virginia HummelDiscover the link between the orb phenomenon and our true identities as eternal souls Read firsthand account...

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*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the coal wars from Mother Jones and other important participants *Includes online resources and a bibliogr...

Reducere. Hillside Fields provides a broad view of the development of sports in West Virginia, from one of the first golf clubs in America at Oakhurst Links ...

Reducere. This book presents a historical overview of the free Negro in Virginia, from the mid-eighteenth century through the Civil War, along with the physi...

Reducere. William Frazer, a descendant of the Scottish Highland Clan Fraser of Lovat, came to America in the 1720s, settling in Fredericksburg, Virginia. The...

Reducere. Orbs and the Afterlife: Survival of the Soul Discover the link between the orb phenomenon and our true identities as eternal souls Read firsthand a...

Reducere. DescriptionFolk-Songs of the South: Collected Under the Auspices of the West Virginia Folk-Lore Society is a collection of ballads and folk songs f...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John Alexander Williams"West Virginia: A History" is widely considered one of the finest books ever written about the state...

Imagining Shakespeare's Wife: The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway - Katherine West Scheil

Reducere. ALCATRAZ - the name alone said it all... It was meant to send a shudder down the spines of the nation's most incorrigible criminals. It stripped Al...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sarah Rose CavanaghHistorically we have constructed our classrooms with the assumption that learning is a dry, staid affair...

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Reducere. Unlike any city in America, Virginia City epitomizes the notion of a western boom-and-bust ghost town. The Comstock Silver Rush lured wealth seeker...

Reducere. DescriptionFrontier Cabin Story is a rare architectural biography of a long-forgotten 18th-century log farmhouse in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. J...

Reducere. With an introduction by Jean Lee Cole and a foreword by Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Freedom's Witness: The Civil War Correspondence of Henry McNeal Turner ...

Reducere. Life on the West Virginia frontier was a daily struggle for survival. For Phebe Tucker Cunningham, that meant the loss of her four children at the ...

n this classic reprint, now with an introduction by Christopher Camuto, Davis tells the history of the Shenandoah Valley and River.About the Author...

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The penitentiary at Deer Lodge, established in 1870, was Montana Territory's first federal facility. In 1889 it became a state penal institution an...

Reducere. This travel guide combines the history and lore of America's most famous highway with sixty-six spine tingling tales of ghostly encounters. From sp...

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Reducere. DescriptionAs a border county in a border state, Barbour County, West Virginia felt the full terror and tragedy of the Civil War. With a meticulous...

Reducere. DescriptionEastern State Penitentiary: A History documents the stories of the men and the method that shaped one of Philadelphia s most recognizabl...

Reducere. The three rivers that make up the Coal River Valley--Big, Little and Coal--were named by explorer John Peter Salling (or Salley) for the coal depos...

Reducere. Witnesses at these haunted sites swear that the spirits of those who lived in Arizona's wild past are still among us. From ruthless outlaws to pres...

The northwestern third of the Commonwealth of Virginia finally broke away in 1863 to form the Union's 35th state. The authors chronicle these event...

Publisher: West Virginia University PressIllustration(s): 7 tables, 8 graphsNumber of pages: 336Collection: Energy and SocietyPublication date: 202...

Reducere. In Clarke County, the spirits of the past bring history to life. The ghost of a brokenhearted Confederate soldier stares out a window waiting in va...

Reducere. DescriptionWest Virginia is a state of overwhelming beauty. Shared traditions, shared tragedies, and shared histories bind its people to the land a...

DescriptionWhat has been the appeal of Anne Hathaway, both globally and temporally, over the past four hundred years? Why does she continue to be r...