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Today in WV History
31 Oct

The first Morgantown Sunday newspaper, the Sunday Dominion-Post, appeared

The Morgantown Weekly Post was established by Henry M. Morgan and Nimrod Nelson Hoffman in 1864. A daily edition, the Morgantown Evening Post, was published from 1899 to 1904. The Morgantown Chronicle, founded in 1904 and edited by Hu Maxwell, pub...

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