Jun. 7—KINGWOOD — Arthurdale Heritage Inc., was named the 2022 Institution of the Year by the West Virginia Association of Museums. "An award of this magnitude not only makes those of us who are ...

PARKERSBURG – West Virginia was at the center of New Deal politics in the 1930s when the federal government established Arthurdale. The United States was gripped by the Great Depression and Arthurdale ...

Run out of bedtime stories for the children? Let me help. There’s a wonderful fairy tale making the rounds, as it does occasionally. Not so long ago and not at all far away there was a fairy tale land ...

Feb. 27—KINGWOOD — Arthurdale Heritage Inc. is looking to expand by building a $2.5 million mixed use commercial and educational space. "Our mission in 1934 was community development and it has become ...

ARTHURDALE, W.Va. — Ninety years ago, a plan by the federal government to defeat poverty through subsistence farming and cooperative manufacturing ventures took root in the green, rolling hills of ...

THE citizens of Morgantown, West Virginia, saw as they passed up High Street that morning that there was an unusual crowd of miners about the Welfare House. Crowds of miners about that house had been ...

SPRINGFIELD — Filth, misery, ignorance, crushing poverty. Even before the stock market crash of Oct. 24, 1929, a sinking economy had drained the lifeblood from the West Virginia mining community known ...

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt had a date to address a high-school graduating class in northern West Virginia—at Arthurdale, the subsistence homestead community closest to her heart. But in her husband’s ...

In the first year of Franklin Roosevelt’s presidency, in the depths of the Great Depression, the federal government asserted power in unprecedented ways. Enabled by a friendly Congress, spurred by a ...