![]() Now the books, pictures, and objects are available to anyone interested in their personal and family history and the area’s culture and past. These activities helped rescue a collection documenting the history, genealogy, and traditions of Central West Virginia, focusing on the counties that were the first foothold of European settlers in the Trans-Allegheny region of old Virginia. An NEH award funded a preservation assessment to help the library save these materials by storing and caring for them properly. After years of gathering materials about West Virginian history, the library’s collections were in dangerous disarray and had outgrown their available space in a former three-room frame school house. ![]() ![]() Generations of settlers followed, and today, Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants (HCPD) operates the Central West Virginia Genealogy and History Library and Museum, based in the town of Horner, to document their history. ![]() John Hacker was the first permanent European settler in Lewis County, West Virginia, when he moved west in the 1770s seeking land on the banks of the Monongahela River. This feature is part of a series we call “50 States of Preservation,” in which we are touring small and mid-sized museums, libraries, historical societies, and other repositories across the country to show how they are helping to preserve the nation’s cultural heritage. ![]()
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