Category: West Virginia University

Did you know there’s a 400-million-year-old ocean beneath West Virginia? It’s called the Iapetus Ocean, and it lies underneath the beautiful Appalachian Mountains. The Iapetus Ocean, which predates the Atlantic Ocean, was named after a Greek Titan. Does the Iapetus Ocean still exist? At the end of the Silurian period […]

West Virginia has 23 species of snakes. Only the Northern copperhead and Timber rattlesnake are venomous. Where are rattlesnakes in West Virginia? Range: This species occurs in West Virginia from the eastern panhandle, through the Alleghenies south to Mingo and Mercer Counties. This distribution is likely a result of the […]

Today, Virginia is still one of the wealthiest states in the South. Virginia is also one of twenty-two right-to-work states. What is the richest part of Virginia? Great Falls is the richest town in Virginia and one of the richest in the entire country. The median annual household income is […]

The 13 original states were New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. The 13 original states were the first 13 British colonies. Was West Virginia a colony? The area that comprises West Virginia was originally part of […]

They were a state born for advocating for and defending the United States of America rather than the seceded states of America. Western Virginians were very committed to the Union in a state that left the Union. Did West Virginia fight with the North during the Civil War? From that […]