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View looking south on High Street in Morgantown, W. Va.  Businesses visible include Jacobs Men's Wear, Stenger's News, Comuntzis, Mountaineer Sport Shop, Conners One Hour Cleaning, Electric Equipment Co., and others, as well as billboards advertising Coca-Cola and Orange Crush.  Photo taken for "Project 63," a revitalization project undertaken in the early 1960s.

1. High Street, Morgantown, W. Va.

A covered bridge stands next to the newer metal bridge built to replace it. The image shows both the old and the new in West Virginia and is a part of the West Virginia Centennial Church History Project.

2. Covered Bridge and Successor, Old and New West Virginia, Monongalia County, W. Va.

The church was first built as a log church in 1954.  The present frame building was built in 1873. The church has been damaged by several storms and remodeled in 1962.

3. Halleck Methodist Church, Clinton District, Monongalia County, W. Va.

The date the church was organized is unknown, but likely between 1860 and 1870.  A frame church was built in 1890 but destroyed by fire in 1913.  The name then changed to St. Luke Christian Church and a new building was erected in 1918.

4. St. Luke Church of Christ, Mooresville, Clay District, Monongalia County, W. Va.

The church was organized in 1861.  The church house was built in 1869 and a new church was dedicated in 1870.  In 1915 Bula Baptist Church joined with Union and West Warren Baptist Churches.

5. Bula Baptist Church, Battelle District, Monongalia County, W. Va.

The church was organized in 1851.

6. Wayman's Ridge Methodist Church, Marshall County, W. Va.

The church was organized in 1854.

7. Miles Chapel Evangelical United Brethren Church, Pricetown, Lewis County, W. Va.

The church was organized in 1848. The church is at the Mouth of Little Rock Camp (Olive Community).

8. Olive Branch Baptist Church, Harrison County, W. Va.

The church was organized in 1847.  The original members of the church were the charter members and they were: Jane Strother, Sanford Strother, Andrew Lyons, Lavina Lyons, Rachael Hooper, John Strother, and Fannie Frances Strother, and David Herbert.

9. Sardis Baptist Church, Sardis, Harrison County, W. Va.

Bethany (Tenmile) Baptist Church was founded in 1843.  The church was originally located near Trousers Leg Run on Tenmile creek, but later moved to Brown when the survey for a railroad ran through the building.

10. Bethany Baptist Church, Brown, Harrison County, W. Va.

The church was founded in 1837.

11. Mt. Zion Presbyterian Church, Petersburg, Grant County, W. Va.

The church was organized around 1775

12. Petersburg Methodist Church, Petersburg, Grant County, W. va.

The church, originally Waugh Chapel, was organized in the early 1800s, though the current building was built in 1869.

13. St. Paul United Methodist Church, Grant County, W. Va.

The Church was organized around approximately 1840. The present church building was built in 1898.

14. St. Matthew's Lutheran Church, Masonville, Grant County, W. Va.

A front view of First Baptist Church, (formerly Bethlehem Baptist Church of Grantsville).  The church was founded in 1833.  The current building was enlarged throughout the 1940s, 1950s, and finished in 1962.

15. First Baptist Church, Grantsville, Calhoun County, W. Va.

The church in Ona, W. Va. was organized in 1814

16. Bethesda Methodist Church, Cabell County, W. Va.

Rogers was the West Virginia University Mountaineer during the 1963-1964 school year.

17. Mountaineer Mascot William W. 'Buck' Rogers Jr., Morgantown, W. Va.

18. Tony Boyle, President of United Mine Workers

'This is the cellular cofferdam inside which Dravo Corporation crews will build a concrete abutment and two of the five bays for the new $ 6.9 million Maxwell Dam in the Monongahela River, five miles above Brownsville, PA. Placement of concrete for the foundation is scheduled to begin late this month after completion of rock drilling, shooting and removal. The dam is being constructed in two stages. On the opposite bank of the river are the new high-lift Maxwell Locks, completed by Dravo the past summer.'

19. Cofferdam of Dravo Corp.

A photograph of Senator Randolph (right) seated with an unidentified man looking at a Report of the President's Council on Aging.

20. Senator Jennings Randolph (Right)

"Grand Counselor. Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, District of Columbia."

21. E. M. Lindamood

The dealership is on Bridgeport hill.

22. Wilson Motor Company Ford Dealership, Clarksburg, W. Va.

Barron is second from the right.

23. Governor William Wallace Barron (Second from Right)

Senator Robert C. Byrd on the right.

24. Senator Robert C. Byrd