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Sorry about that. The problem with these things is that systems reproduce their sound differently. Some TVs and sound systems equalize all sound, which is what your system is doing. But we will try to be cognizant of that in the future.

That is so cool! It's great to hear from people who have direct ties to our state's history.

Wow, you are married to some old ideas. There are maps all over the place that put WV in either the Northeast or the Southeast. And West Virginia is commonly referred to as a Mid-Atlantic state because it's the buffer between the Midwest and the Atlantic. I think the point of the video is the overlapping culture and economics, not a strict definition from only the sources you trust but a definition that actually varies from source to source. Here's just one source that includes that includes, WV, VA, MD, DE and Washington in the Mid-Atlantic. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_(United_States)

@@derekmoore7619 The U.S. Census Bureau lists the Mid-Atlantic states as consisting of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/maps/reference/us_regdiv.pdf Even Wikipedia recognizes that Mid-Atlantic derives from the Middle Colonies, which consisted of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The Wikipedia article also denotes that the inclusion of Virginia and West Virginia as "Mid-Atlantic" are "atypical" due to the cultural differences. Nowhere in the Wikipedia article does it claim that any state, much less WV, is included due to being a "buffer zone" between the Atlantic and the Mid-West. Some agencies, like the USGS and GSA, include other states as "Mid-Atlantic," but that is due to the appropriation of government funding to certain areas and other strategic needs, rather than cultural or strictly geographic regions. In other words, WV is only included as "Mid-Atlantic" by some agencies due to it being more convenient for those agencies to operate. The U.S. Census Bureau is unique in the fact that it tries to focus on culturally linked geographic regions so that the census data can more accurately represent the actual regions, especially when comparing data from different censuses.

@@RUclipsPremiumforRealz I'm not sure why you've taken this subject quite so personally, but you are clearly missing the spirit of the piece. The nation does not culturally divide right down the lines according to state boundaries. The cultures seep into each other and West Virginia is influenced by all the regions that this video mentions. Also, the Census Bureau is not some official entity that decides what the regions are. Their designations are only intended to convey THEIR methodology, and are not a command to the rest of us that we must follow as a guideline. I'm well aware of the Middle Colonies but even that didn't make sense because the others were New England and Southern, so they lacked Northern to give them a middle. Moreover, those were very loose definitions back in the day because mapmaking was hugely flawed. New York, New Jersey & Pennsylvania can't be the Northeast AND the Mid-Atlantic at the same time. It's a contradiction and businesses have chiefly stopped including them in both regions when Northern or Northeast serves them better. And at no point was I using the Wikipedia article to back me up on the "buffer" for the Midwest remark. I am stating that based on how these states are discussed in documentaries and forms. Nonetheless, if you want to use the colonial defintions, you need to recall that West Virginia was part of Virginia until the Civil War, so your point about the distance to the ocean is rendered moot by whatever metric you choose. West Virginia is included in the Mid-Atlantic by the Federal Reserve Bank, Courts of Appeals, Office of Management & Budget, and many other entities of equal merit to the Census Bureau. West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and D.C. have far more in common with each other than they do with the rest of the South or the Northeast. Again, the spirit of this piece is that West Virginia shares cultural regions and evidently wasn't meant to be taken as the final word.

Yes! His own story would make for quite book or movie, wouldn't it?

I committed before it was over !! Haha 100% truth about the West Fork !! I have heard that several times over the yrs!! Truth if you ask me !! It's crazy how it's not talked about more. 130+ ppl died in the tri state area. It's was the 1st and only F4 to ever hit WV!!

It is so hard to believe a storm of this size hit West Virginia. The town weathered the storm well but it was quite horrible by any standard.

Thanks so much! Many probably think the Revolutionary War passed by not just West Virginia, but the Midwestern states, too, but they were also very much a part of it.

Isn't that fascinating? Few people know this. We had a lot of fun putting this together. Time limits forbade us from putting in even more fascinating details.

Thanks you so very much! You are right about there being reasons for length. The longest allowed time on social media, especially X (formerly Twitter), 2 mins, 20 secs. Some of these would benefit from a longer treatment at the length you suggest. Thanks for becoming a subscriber!

Thank you for letting us know. The access to the maps of the old turnpikes can be rather limited and the source we had indicated this path.

I have been doing some research on the route of the turnpike recently. Do you know the route after it starts in Salem and goes up current Patterson Rd. to Greenbrier Rd? Does it go up current Hunters Fork and across the hill to Red Lick and then onto Meathouse Fork or did it go from Greenbrier Rd. to Black Lick then onto Sugar Camp then on to current State Rt 18? Both options would put Jeptah's house along the road.

@@stephenkelley2700 I wish I knew the answer to that. I suspect the option you described that included Meathouse Fork is the turnpike route. (Someone may once have mentioned it was a part of the turnpike). Maybe Doddridge County historians can help with that. I basically know some of the points along the way. New Milton is one example. It lies about eight miles south of West Union. Looking at modern maps, from New Milton the turnpike must have gone south. Maps indicate few east west options. I live in Ritchie County, so looked at where the turnpike must have been. Oxford is near the county line between Doddridge and Ritchie counties. My ancestor Alexander Lowther had the original post office at Oxford, when he lived on the Ritchie County side of the line. In the book by McWhorter about Border Settlers of Northwestern Virginia, Alexander Lowther's comment before dying said something about hoping for salvation based in part on his hospitality to travelers. I was puzzled because today that area is like the middle of nowhere, remote. Looking at modern maps, the road from Oxford crosses the County line, then south for a distance, then West into Pullman and northward to Harrisville over the "Pullman road." People living in Doddridge County who have deep roots in those areas you mentioned: Patterson Rd., Greenbrier Rd., Hunters Fork, Redlick and Meathouse Fork, may have family oral history about the turnpike. I wonder if attorneys doing title searches in Doddridge County have found properties that mention the Salem-Harrisville Turnpike? A Harrisville attorney told me that the Pullman road was the old turnpike. I might also recommend looking at the History of the Seven Day Baptist Churches of West Virginia, written by Corliss FitzRandolph, a grandson of Jepthah. I have Seven Day Baptist ancestors myself (Davis, Maxson, Tharp and FitzRandolph). I know that early on the pioneer settlers sent out the finest hunters to harvest game and smoke the meat to preserve it for transport to places like Salem. Thus the name of Meathouse Fork? Also, the Seven Day Baptist churches were often visited by ministers from New York State, including Rev. Stillman Coon and Rev. Alexander Campbell (of the SD Baptist faith and not the man of the same name, Rev. Alexander Campbell, a founder of the Disciples of Christ). Those ministers were abolitionists and so were most of the West Virginia SD Baptists. Jepthah served as clerk of the SD Baptist conference that met in Berea, Ritchie County, in 1854. He may be the one who drafted the following resolution, which was adopted: "That we regard American slavery as a sin of great magnitude in the sight of God, and a flagrant violation of the rights of our fellow men and that it is our duty to use all of our influence against it."

@@sandramoore Thank you for your response. I live in Salem and grew up on Patterson Rd. I am helping the current owner of William Fritz Randolph's home Greenbrier Rd put the house on the historic register. Wiliam was Jepthah's older brother. He built his house in 1850. He was also a supervisor for the construction of the turnpike. I reviewed his personal papers that his family donated to the WVU Library. It confirms the route along Greenbrier Rd but I couldn't tell much after that. The WV DOT has an online map of the old turnpikes but it only shows the section from Salem along Patterson Rd. to the top of Salem Hill at the Doddridge County line. It then picks it up from Rt. 18 along the Porto Rico Rd to Oxford. I have also found some maps 1873 that shows roads on the two options I described before. I have been told there are stories of slaves being transported along Meathouse Fork in chains. From the online map, Meathouse Fork was part of the Weston-West Union Turnpike. My theory that William's house may have been a stop on the Underground Railroad also since he was also a Seventh Day Baptist and his house sits right on the turnpike. I didn't find anything in his papers to confirm that though.

@@stephenkelley2700 A couple of years ago, I was called upon by a writer for Wild Wonderful West Virginia magazine to help her assess the likelihood that Jepthah FitzRandolph's house had been part of the Underground Railroad. I referred to the research by Dr. Judith Wellman of New York State, who invented the Wellman Scale to evaluate evidence of involvement with the UGRR. I said that Jepthah's house would have to rank at Level 3, due to several pieces of evidence beyond the oral history: four separate chambers in the basement (each only accessible from one of four hidden trapdoors), membership in the SD Baptist Church where abolitionist pastors preached against slavery, and attendance at the SD Baptist Churches of West Virginia 1854 conference held at the SDB Church at Berea, in Ritchie County, where they adopted an antislavery resolution. (Jepthah was the clerk of that conference held in 1854).

Wow! The stories about this are just amazing.

Thank you. Yes, this was an incredible tragedy. The rebuilding of the team and community is an amazing story. Thanks for watching!

Thanks for taking an interest! Yes, in part 2, we explore how the Underground Railroad extends to the Mason-Dixon Line and was run differently. That video premiered this week. You may find it at: ruclips.net/video/NGBmNykbp14/видео.html

@@daily304 I will look for it, thanks!

We have so many incredible animals in our state!

We couldn't agree more! Thanks for supporting our talented performers!

Right?! They did an AMAZING job!

Don't let the pretty fool you WV is the 3rd world full of subhuman criminals Part of my family has been there for almost 200 yrs, before it was WV The fed gov utterly destroyed that place, it is a nightmare now

We've been hearing so many wonderful stories like these. Heck's was much beloved.

Thank you so much for your kind words! We are proud of the talent in #YesWV!

They had such a wonderful selection of toys. Check out our previous week's video on the Marx Toy Company factory in Glen Dale.

What a cool story. so many of us had great memories of Heck's when we realized we hadn't covered it as a subject.

I worked at Heck's for a year in Fort Wayne back in the 80's, the Park West Location... What a flashback

@@robertwright1376 That's the one my family shopped at! I was born in 1975, so it would have been around 1983 that my dad bought me that knife.