Posted in West Virginia
June 22, 2015
Some People Don’t Know These 8 More Things Came From West Virginia
West Virginians have always been creative, and that means that lots of things started here. We already brought you a list of things you may not realize got their start here, but there are more than that. Here are eight more things that you may not know began in West Virginia.
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Marian McQuade of Oak Hills is credited for founding Grandparents Day in 1973. Pictured are Forget-me-nots, the official flowers of the holiday.
Berkeley Springs boasts the country's first spa that was open to the public. It was before we became a state, I know, but I'm counting it.
That was at the Memorial Tunnel on the West Virginia Turnpike (now closed).
Got its start with Mail Pouch tobacco ads on barns in Wheeling
The Ladies' Garland newspaper was published in Harpers Ferry in 1824.
The first routes for Rural Free Delivery started in Jefferson County. Prior to that, people living in rural places traveled to cities to get their mail or paid someone for delivery.
Opening in Welch in 1941.
The inventor was Giuseppe Argiro, an Italian who came in 1920 to work in the mines in Clarksburg, according to the state Division of Culture and History.
What else started here? Let me know what I missed in the comments.
