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The West Virginia Museum of American Glass is located in Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia, United States.It was formed in 1993 for charitable, educational and scientific purposes to discover, procure, publish and preserve whatever may relate to the glass industry in West Virginia, the United States of America, and where ever else glass has been manufactured. [1]
Weston was founded in 1818 as Preston; the name was changed to Fleshersville soon after, and then to Weston in 1819. [6] The city was incorporated in 1846. [7]Weston is the site of the former Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, a psychiatric hospital and National Historic Landmark which has been mostly vacant since its closure in 1994 upon its replacement by the nearby William R. Sharpe Jr. Hospital.
Mountaineer Military Museum: Weston: Lewis: Mountain Lakes: Military: website: Museum of American Glass in West Virginia: Weston: Lewis: Mountain Lakes: Art: website, decorative glass pieces created by area glass manufacturers, includes National Marble Museum Museum of Radio and Technology: Huntington: Cabell: Metro Valley: Technology: Historic ...
St. Albans is a city in western Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States, at the confluence of the Kanawha and Coal rivers. The population was 10,861 at the 2020 census . [ 3 ] It is part of the Charleston metropolitan area .
St. Albans Main Street Historic District is a national historic district located at St. Albans, Kanawha County, West Virginia. The district includes 22 contributing buildings in the central business district of St. Albans. They were constructed following two fires in 1906 that destroyed the original frame structures.
St. Albans Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Depot, also known as St. Albans Depot, is a historic railroad depot located at St. Albans, Kanawha County, West Virginia. It was built in 1906 by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. It has a 1 1/2 story central block with one story wings and a hipped roof. It originally had a square watch tower.
Thomas Sweeney was born in Armagh, Ireland to Thomas Sweeney and Sarah Ann Campbell.His family emigrated to the United States when he was a child. He and his brothers Michael, Campbell and Robert Henry Sweeney lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and by 1830 settled near the important Ohio River port of Wheeling in what was then Ohio County, Virginia.
In modern times, the preserved grist mill of Cummins Jackson is the centerpiece of a historical site and museum at the Jackson's Mill Center for Lifelong Learning and State 4-H Camp. The facility, located in Weston, West Virginia, serves as a special campus for West Virginia University (WVU) and the WVU Extension Service.