On This Day in West Virginia History, February 22nd

February 22, 2023

Mountaineer News

Vintage West Virginia

On February 22, 1911, the legislature passed an act establishing the West Virginia Colored Orphans' Home near Huntington.

Learn more: Legislation Establishing the West Virginia Colored Orphans' Home Extract From Second Biennial Report of the State Board of Control, 1912 Biography of Charles E. McGhee Opening of the West Virginia Normal & Industrial School for Colored Orphans Document-Based Questions