Vintage West Virginia; On This Day in West Virginia History, October 27th

October 27, 2022

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Livia Nye Simpson Poffenbarger, a newspaper editor whose efforts resulted in congressional recognition of the Battle of Point Pleasant as being the first battle of the Revolutionary War, died on October 27, 1937.

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