Construction Workers Repairing Bluestone High Bridge After Its Collapse, Summers County, W. Va.
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The men stand on the collapsed structure.A week after the collapse the men began dismantling the twisted span, using a never before used technique by burning the steel beams with chemicals.Five workmen killed and four injured when the 300-ton span buckled and folded downward into the mouth of Bluestone River.
Pictured in the back row is Everette Wyant, Emerson Buckland, Netti Wygal, Charlotte Vallandingham, and Lilia, holding Helen Groves.In the second row is Bruce Pitzer, Martha Buckland, Opal Jones, Joe Thompson, Lorene Jones, Bernice Hodge, Anne Allen, Jake Jones, and the Wygal boys.Third row is Ted Hodge, Ira Wyant, Carl Jones, John Hoke, Ray Wyant, Chester R. Adie Buckland, and Wygal (?)Fourth row is Paul Wyant, Ovene Hodge, Madeline and Elizabeth Jones, Hodge baby, Howard Wygal, and Joe Pitzer.
Storer College Alumna at Jefferson Rock, Harpers Ferry, W. Va.
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Cecelia Isabella Lee (Green) attended Storer College for Secondary School. She married James Henry Green Sr., who graduated from Storer College in 1946.
Pleasant Grove Methodist Church, Webster County, W. Va.
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The first Methodist church built in the county was at Pleasant Grove in the early 1840's. The first Methodist society organized in Webster County in 1833 at the Hamrick Barn by Reverend Addison Hite. The present church at Pleasant Grove was erected in 1910. The church is located several miles east of Webster Springs.
Friends of University Hospital, Morgantown, W. Va.
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Two women offer snacks and other items to patients at the WVU Hospital. Friends of University Hospital is a non-profit organization that promotes the health and welfare of individuals in the Morgantown community.
Colonel C. L. Smith, later Brigadier General, graduated from West Virginia University. He practiced law in Fairmont, W. Va., and established the Fairmont Times with O. S. McKinney. He was a colonel of the First regiment of the National Guard.