Two hundred years ago this month, right here in Belmont County, history was made. On July 4, 1825, construction officially began on the National Road in Ohio. The groundbreaking took place in St.

Black Americans’, our’ relationship to this annual holiday has always been fraught. In 1852, nearly a century after the ...

He concluded, he later wrote, that the troops were “ exceeding dirty & nasty people ” led by indifferent officers with an “ ...

On a sunny but crisp afternoon this spring, more visitors than you might think trekked on a weekday to Ball’s Bluff ...