The stock market crashed on October 29, 1929, helping to catapult the nation into the Great Depression. But a month prior, September 16, 1929, the Kanawha Valley Bank opened its doors at a new location on the corner of Lee and Capitol streets. The new, towering...

While log homes were the order of the day in the early 1800s, a Charleston attorney built a small, yet distinctive clapboard home on the east end of Virginia Street in 1834. The house, known as Elk Grove, was home to James Craik and his wife, Juliet Shrewsbury, a...

Decades before Charleston Area Medical Center became the 3rd largest employer in West Virginia, and years before St. Francis joined forces with Thomas Health Systems, numerous hospitals served the residents of Charleston. Here’s a timeline of Charleston’s health care...