Andrew's world West Virginia history

Here is our beautiful capitol building, which is the second one in Charleston. Construction on this building was started in 1924 and was completed in 1932, by famous architect Cass Gilbert. The building houses the state legislature as well as the Governor's office and the offices of several other government officials. The picture looks to be taken from the UC side of the river. Edit- its actually the fourth Capitol building in Charleston and sixth one overall in WV

      Everybody knows (or should know) about the namesake of the village of Sod by now, Samuel O'Dell Dunlap. I think theres a very important settler that often gets over looked though.      I'm sure you've read the sign at the mouth of Cobbs creek that says it was named for Fleming Cobbs.       Fleming B. Cobbs, Sr. Was a famous scout, born December  23rd, 1767 in Albemarle county, Virginia and died January 10th, 1846 at the age of 78 in his cabin at the mouth of Davis creek in kanawha county, Virginia.        Fleming was an Indian scout for the US army and was stationed at fort Lee, which stood at the mouth of the Elk river in present day Charleston (I wrote about fort Lee in a previous post).       In his book, the first 200 years of Cobbs creek , Dave McCormick says "his job was to travel up and down the Kanawha and Ohio valleys checking for indian sign, from May until October"       He goes on to tell about how Fleming apparently had a lean to around where th

     I normally try to stay relevant with this blog, but today I'm gonna talk about some American history, rather than West Virginia history.      Yesterday was July 4th, the anniversary of when our founding fathers signed the declaration of independence... Or did they?      Well, yea, they did sign it but not on the day you might think. The second continental Congress did meet on July 4th, 1776 and the declaration was approved that day but most of the 56 delegates didn't actually sign until August 2nd, 1776. E. Harrison, July 4th, 2012, 9 things you may not know about the declaration of independence, history.com Signing of the declaration of independence, education.nationalgeographic.com