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You may pick up your purchase at our shop at the museum location, or any item can be shipped. Currently we can only accept cash or checks. Make your check payable to: Marion County Historical Society.

If you desire delivery, please call us at (304) 367-5398 to find out the cost, including shipping and any insurance you may want. Prices include West Virginia sales tax. Once your order leaves our shop we cannot be responsible for it. All sales are final.
= G l a s s =
Our glass items are created here in West Virginia. Each piece is slightly different, and this is especially noticeable in the colors used in the balls.
- Paperweights Clear glass with the West Virginia quarter inside. $10.00
- Aroma ball Use with your favorite scent for a little aromatherapy $16.50
- Suncatcher Beautiful in a sun filled window $10.00
- Ring Rest A safe location for your treasured ring $10.00
- Fan Pull Can be used as an attractive pendant on a necklace $8.00
- Friendship Balls Before gifts were affordable, our forefathers still wanted to recognize happy events in friends’ lives with a present. Therefore Friendship Balls came into being. The ball was passed on from person to person and back again. Perhaps you'd like one to recreate an old tradition among your circle of loved ones. $18.00
- Witches Balls In colonial times many believed in witches and evil spirits.To prevent these beings from entering the home, these glass balls were hung in doorways and windows. The witch or spirit would be entranced with its beauty and become trapped inside. Each is multicolored and has three tubes running through it. $18.00
- Decorative Balls Colorful glass balls to display. $14.00
- Glass Flowers Three sizes of flowers that used to be used in place of live ones, especially nice to decorate with during the winter.
$6.00 - Small
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$10.00 - Medium
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$15.00 - Large
- WV Lucky Stones Small solid colored glass stones with an image of West Virginia etched on them. Ours are blue. $ 2.00
= P a i n t i n g s =
by Agnes Derosa
- Black Water Falls 5x7 $10.00
- WV Water Falls 5x7 $9.00
- Moon Over Pine Tree 5x7 $10.00
- Field of Flowers 2x3 $7.00
- Dessert Flowers 5x7 $9.50
- Fallen Iris 1 1/2 x3 $6.50
- Angry Sky 1 1/2 x3 $6.50
- Blooming Cactus 5x7 $9.00
= B o o k s =
* Denotes that the book is autographed by the author
- Prices Include WV Sales Tax -
~• Marion County History Books •~
- Marion County, West Virginia: A Pictorial History
by Tom Koon and Oce Smith
$30.00
- History of Marion County
by George A. Dunnington
$8.00
- Images of Marion County
by Tom Koon
$20.00
- Journey Into Yesteryear, Returning to Our Roots*
By Dr Christopher S. Hood & Charles G. Hood
$26.00
- Monongah, The Tragic Story of the 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster
by Davitt McAteer
$30.00
- Monongah Coal Mine Disaster, a Pictorial History of a   Monumental Tragedy*
By Ron Rittenhouse
$42.00
- An Ornament to the City
by Debra Ball McMillan
$35.00
- Davie and School on Moody
by Elinor Watson Carroll
$16.50
- The Knights of the Laughing Waters*
by George W. Ramsey, Jr.
 
$25.00 
~• Civil War Books About Marion and Surroundings Counties •~
- GENERAL JOSEPH  A. J. LIGHTBURN, ONE OF LINCOLN’S BEST *
by By Dr. Robert Anderson
$12.00
- REBELS AT THE GATE: Lee & McClellan on the Front Line of a Nation Divided
by Hunter Lesser
$15.00
- Civil War Letters and Diary of Joshua Winters *
$10.00
- Jeff Davis Pie *
by Robert Anderson
$10.00
- Thunder on the Mountain *
by Robert Anderson
$10.00

- Courier *
by Robert Anderson

$10.00
- Some Untold Tales of Valor * by Robert Anderson $10.00
- Eyewitness to Hellfire *
by Robert Anderson
$3.00
- Civil War Legends * by Robert Anderson $3.00
~• West Virginia State History Books •~
- West Virginia Encyclopedia
(West Virginia Humanities Council) edited by Ken Sullivan
$45.00
- Contest for a Capital
by T. L. Loftin
$20.00
- Our Mountain State Heritage
by Sylvia Parker
$18.00
- Mountain State Stories of the People Celebrating West Virginia
by Sylvia Parker
$18.00
- Written on the Land * (CCC Camps)
by Robert Anderson
$18.00
~• More Books by Local Authors •~
- Fairmont Cemeteries * (Woodlawn Cemetery, Prickett's Fort Cemetery, Fairmont City Cemetery, and the Morgan Cemetery)
by Gena Wagaman
$20.00
- The Big Yellow Cars (Streetcars)
by John Camp Neely
$6.00
- Bootstraps and Biscuits (Wild Food Recipes of WV)
by Anna Lee Robe-Terry
$15.00
- Mountaineer Visions * (Poetry)
by Robert Anderson
$3.00
- Monongah Glass of Fairmont, West Virginia
by Sandra Schneider
$11.00
- Fire in the Hole (Coalfields in WV)
by Russell F. Bonasso
$22.00
- More Done Than Said (Union Mission)
by Fran Perry with Fay Perry
$20.00
- Partying On The Line & Other Old-Tyme Tales
by Dr. Robert E. Anderson
$3.25
- The Hobo's Mark
by Dr. Robert E. Anderson
$3.25
- BLACK DAYS, BLACK DUST, The memories of an African American Coal Miner
By Robert Armstead, As Told To S. L. Gardner
$18.00
- Monongah, The tragic story of the 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster
By Davitt McAteer
$30.00
- Monongah Mine Disaster, A Pictoral History of a Monumental Tradgey
Edited by Ken Sullivan
$20.00
- Feast of the Seven Fishes, The Collected Comic Strip & Italian Holiday Ckookbook *
By Robert Tinnell
$20.00
- A Guide to Haunted West Virginia
by Walter Gavenda & Michael T. Shoemaker
$23.00
- Haunted West Virginia, Ghost & Strange Phenomona of the Mountain  State $10.00
- Chessie Systems Rairoads in WV
By Thomas W. Dixon
$23.00
- Legends of the Mountain State, Ghostley Tales of WV                      $20.00
- The Ohio River in American History, Along  with the                   
Allegheny, Monongahela, Kanawha, Muskingum, Kentucky, Green &
Wabash Rivers*
By: Captain Rick Rhodes
$30.00
- Letter to a New President
by Senator Robert C. Byrd
$23.00
- Losing America
by Senator Robert C. Byrd
$14.00 
- Child of the Appalachain Coalfields
by Senator Robert C. Byrd
$35.00

- Arch: The Autobiography of Arch Moore, Jr.
By Arch Moore, Jr.

$33.00
~• Stereo Audio Cassettes•~
- The Telltale Lilac Bush & Other Ghosts Tales (2 Cassetes)
By Dr. Ruth Ann Musick
$33.00
~• Musical CDs•~
Flavor of the Hills
by Wakeeweinn
$15.00
Frozen in Time
by Wakeeweinn
$15.00
Live at the RCCAC
by the West Virginia Highlanders of Davis & Elkins College
$15.00
The 60th Anniversary
by the West Virginia Highlanders of Davis & Elkins College
$15.00
~• Special Limited Purchase •~
Hartley boxes
3 different sizes
Original - Never Been Used
Very Limited Supply
$1.00
* Denotes that a book is autographed by the author.

Please add $5.00 for postage & handling fee for anywhere in the United States

Or stop by the Museum and pick up your items, and take a tour while you are there!

Gift wrap: $1.50   ----   Museum Card: $0.75

Make checks payable to:

Marion County Historical Society
P. O. Box 1636
Fairmont, WV   26555-1636


  


For more information about ordering, please contact us at . . .



Marion County Historical Society Museum

P.O. Box 1636
Fairmont, WV 26555-1636

304 • 367 • 5398

marionhistorical@yahoo.com




Updated February 26, 2008