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The Basler Fasnacht starts with the Morgestraich when, at 4am, all the lights go out in the city and carnival participants walk through the streets with beautifully painted lanterns, costumes and typically big-nosed masks, accompanied by drummers and pipers playing piccolos. The festival continues for three days with events for children and ...
Off Interstate 68 8 mi (13 km) east of Morgantown. 39°38′18″N 79°48′56″W. / 39.638333°N 79.815556°W / 39.638333; -79.815556 ( Camp Rhododendron) Morgantown. 4. Chancery Hill Historic District. Chancery Hill Historic District.
Website. www.morgantownwv.gov. Morgantown is a city in and the county seat of Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States, situated along the Monongahela River. The most populous city in North Central West Virginia and the third-most populous city in the state, Morgantown is best known as the home of West Virginia University.
92000896 [1] Added to NRHP. July 28, 1992. Second Ward Negro Elementary School, also known as the Second Ward Annex, is a historic school building located at Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia. It was built in 1938–1939, and is a one-story, plus basement, "T"-shaped brick building in the Art Deco style. It sits on a sandstone ...
July 23, 1990. South Park Historic District is a national historic district located at Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia. The district includes 501 contributing buildings and 5 contributing structures in a primarily residential area south of downtown Morgantown. The district is characterized by tightly packed dwellings on a hillside ...
Basler Fasnacht. The Carnival of Basel ( German: Basler Fasnacht) is the biggest carnival in Switzerland and it is the main Protestant carnival in the world. [ 1] Basler Fasnacht takes place annually between February and March in Basel. It has been listed as one of the top fifty local festivities in Europe.
Noelle Lewis, 10, of Alliance, was the youngest participant in this year's Greater Alliance Carnation Festival Flower Show, where she won several awards on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024.
Colonel Zackquill Morgan was the son of Welsh -born Colonel Morgan Morgan and Catherine Garretson, the first known white settlers in what would become the U.S. state of West Virginia. He was born in Orange [now Berkeley] County, [West] Virginia, in 1735. Zackquill Morgan founded Morgantown, West Virginia in Monongalia County, where he died at ...