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From Virginia Chronicle, One Century Ago: Three Dailies & Four Weeklies Report the End of the Great War

Library of VirginiaNovember 9, 2018

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Prelude to Prohibition: The State Referendum Vote September 22, 1914: The Recorder, Post & Enterprise

It was Wet vs. Dry and City vs. Country and Dry Country won. It wasn’t even close. The advocates for Prohibition themselves might have been…

Henry MorseApril 11, 2017

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“Flew on wings of death to the hills”:Southwestern Virginia reports on the 1918 Spanish Influenza pandemic

The Fall of 1918 saw the end of World War I and hundreds of thousands in America dead from a influenza pandemic that was sweeping…

Natalie DraperMarch 5, 2013

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The Big Stone Post

The setting for John Fox Jr.’s 1908 novel Trail of the Lonesome Pine, Big Stone Gap in Wise County is situated along the Powell River…

Kelley EwingJune 18, 2012