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15 Oct

President Johnson signed the National Historic Preservation Act, which established the National Register of Historic Places

The first archeological excavation undertaken in West Virginia was at Grave Creek Mound at Moundsville in 1838. The second major site was recorded in the fall of 1846, when Ephraim G. Squier and Edwin H. Davis documented the Salt Rock petroglyphs ...

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