Historical
Society & Museum
Museum Shop
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
Glass Ornaments
Stain Glass Window from the Marion Court House on one side & Information on the other - $10.00
Marion County Museum: Former Sheriff's office & Information on the back - $10.00
Glassware
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 aroma therapy $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
Books For Sale
Prices Include Sales Tax
MARION COUNTY HISTORY BOOKS:
ITALIANS IN WEST VIRGINIA by Dr. Judy Prozzillo Byers and Dr. Victor A. Basile $22.00
MARION COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA: A PICTURAL
HISTORY by Tom Koon* and Oce Smith $30.00
JOURNEY INTO YESTERDAY, RETURNING TO OUR ROOTS
By Dr Christopher S. Hood & Charles G. Hood* (The Haymond Family) $26.00
FAIRMONT CEMENTARIES
By Gena Wagaman * $20.00
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
CAROLINA MINE, A NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA COAL CAMP $20.00
Compiled by Trudy Ice Lemley and Irene Yuhas Ice
IMAGES OF MARION COUNTY By Thomas Koon* $20.00
AN ORNAMENT TO THE CITY, Historic Architecture in Downtown
Fairmont, West Virginia By Debra Ball McMillan $35.00
DAVIE AND SCHOOL ON MOODY By Elinor Watson Carroll $16.50
(James Otis Watson, I , Founder of the Coal Industry in WV)
THE KNIGHTS OF THE LAUGHING WATERS by George W. $25.00
Ramsey, Jr.* Rivalry Between the East Fairmont & West Fairmont
High Schools starting with the history of sports from 1900s
BIRDS OF WEST VIRGINIA FIELD GUIDE $14.00
By Stan Tekiela
WILDFLOWERS AND TREES OF WEST VIRGINIA by Christopher M. $10.00
Gatens & Emilly Grafton. Illustrations Erin Turner
CIVIL WAR BOOKS OF MARION & SURROUNDING COUNTIES
GENERAL JOSEPH A. J. LIGHTBURN, ONE OF LINCOLN’S BEST
By Dr. Robert Anderson* $12.00
CIVIL WAR LETTERS AND DIARY OF JOSHUA WINTERS
By Dr.Elizabeth Davis Swiger* $10.00
THE REPORTER WORE PETTICOATS BY Dr. Abigail Reynolds $22.00
A historical Novel based on a true person.
JEFF DAVIS PIE by Dr. Robert Anderson * $10.00
THUNDER ON THE MOUNTAIN by Dr.Robert Anderson* $10.00
COURIER by Dr.Robert Anderson* $10.00
SOME UNTOLD TALES OF VALOR by Dr.Robert Anderson* $10.00
EYEWITNESS TO HELLFIRE by Robert Anderson* $ 3.00
CIVIL WAR LEDGENDS, A Meeting at Philippi Bridge:
By Dr.Robert Anderson* $ 3.00
STATE HISTORY BOOKS
WEST VIRGINIA ENCYCLOPEDIA (West Virginia Humanities $45.00
Council) edited by Ken Sullivan
HISTORIC PHOTOS OF WEST VIRGINIA $42.00
BY: Gerald Swick
CONTEST FOR A CAPITAL by T. L. Loftin $20.00
LIFE AND TIMES OF ANN BAILEY BY Virgil A. Lewis $10.00
(Pioneer Heroine of Greater Kanawha Valley)
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 Dr. Robert Anderson* $18.00
THE CIVIL WAR IN WEST VIRGINIA By Stan Cohen $16.00
WEST VIRGINIA BEAUTY FAMILIAR & RARE By Steve Shaluta* $30.00
Photography & Jeanne Mozier, Text. A large, beautiful hardback book
Of colored photograpy throughout West Virginia
OTHER LOCAL AUTHORS BOOKS
THE FEAST OF THE SEVEN FISHES, THE COLLECTED COMIC STRIP & ITALIAN HOLIDAY COOKBOOK By Robert Tinnel* (soon to be a movie) $20.00
SHADOWS OF THE ALLEGENIES By Dr. Edwin Daryl Michael* $19.00
Fauna & wildlife in the 1700s in this Historical Novel of Scotsman & his wolf hound
THE BIG YELLOW CARS (streetcars) $ 8.00
By John Camp Neely
BOOTSTRAPS AND BISCUITS (wild food recipes of WV)
By Anna Lee Robe-Terry $15.00
MOUNTAINEER VISIONS (poetry) by Robert Anderson* $ 3.00
MORE DONE THAN SAID (Union Mission) $14.00
by Fran Perry &Fay Perry
THE HOBO’S MARK by Robert E. Anderson $ 3.25
PARTYING ON THE LINE AND OTHER OLD-TYME TALES
By Robert E. Anderson $ 3.25
GHOST TALES
TELLTABLE LILAC BUSH by Ruth Ann Musick $17.00
DEVILS TEA TABLES $10.00
ELK RIVER GHOST , TALES AND LORE: $10.00
A GUIDE TO HAUNTED WEST VIRGINIA by Walter Gavenda & $23.00
Michael T. Shoemaker
HAUNTED West Virginia, Ghost & Strange Phenomena of the Mountain $10.00
State
COFFIN HOLLOW & OTHER GHOST TALES: By Ruth Ann Musick $17.00
LEGENDS OF THE MOUNTAIN STATE Ghostly Tales of WV $20.00
COOKBOOKS
APPALACHIAN HOME COOKING, History, Culture & Recipes $26.00
By Mark F. Sohn, Ph.D
CHILDREN OF THE HEARTH (cook book) $6.00
By Barbara Swell
FIRST AMERICAN COOKIE LADY $13.00
By Barbara Swell
COOKING IN A COAL CAMP $12.00
By Glenna R. Pack
GARDEN SUPPER TONIGHT $13.00
By Barbara Swell
MORE THAN BEANS & CORN BREAD $15.00
By Barbara Beury McCalllum
OLD-TIME FARMHOUSE COOKING By Barbara Swell $ 6.00
OTHER BOOKS
BLACK DAYS,BLACK DUST The Memories of an African American
Coal Miner by Robert Armstead as told to S.L. Gardner $18.00
CHESSIE SYSTEMS RAILROADS IN WV $23.00
By: Thomas W. Dixon
THE OHIO RIVER IN AMERICAN HISTORY, Along with the $30.00
Allegheny, Monongahela, Kanawha, Muskingum, Kentucky, Green &
Wabash Rivers By: Captain Rick Rhodes*
LETTER TO A NEW PRESIDENT by Senator Robert Byrd $23.00
LOSING AMERICA by Senator Robert Byrd $14.00
CHILD OF THE APPALACHIAN COALFIELDS by $35.00
Senator Robert E. Byrd
WHERE IT ALL BEGAN By David L. McKain & Bernard L. Allen $40.00
The Story of the People & Places Where The Oil & Gas Industry began
in West Virginia & Southern Ohio
STERO AUDIO CASSETTES
THE TELLTALE LILAC BUSH & OTHER GHOST TALES $7.00
by Dr. Ruth Ann Musick ( 2 cassettes)
*DENOTES THAT THE 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 the book(s) and take a tour while you are there.
Gift wrap: $1.50 - Museum Card: .75
Make checks payable to: Marion County Historical Society
P. O. Box 1636
Fairmont, WV 26555-1636
CDS
WEST VIRGINIA, A Film History (The Complete Series – 6 hours) $30.00
A production of the West Virginia History Film Project by the West
Virginia Humanities Council.
U.S. SENATOR ROBERT BYRD, Mountain Fiddler $16.00
MUSICAL CDS
Whakewenn: Flavor of the Hills: $15.00
Frozen in Time: $15.00
The West Virginia Highlanders
Of Davis & Elkins College:
Live at the RCCAC $15.00
The 60th Anniversary $15.00
TRIFOLD PAMPLETS
Butterflies and Moths of WV- Trifold $6.00
West Virginia Birds Trifold $6.00
West Virginia Wildlife Trifold $6.00
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
MADAM PRESIDENT, The Extraordinary True (and Evolving) Story of $3.50
Women in Politics by Catherine Thimmesh, Illustrate by Douglas B. Jones
OUTSIDE THE WINDOW, by Anna Egan Smucker, Illustrated by $8.00
Stacey Schuett
THE AMISTAD Coloring Book by Peter F. Copeland $3.50
A Slave Revolt Aboard A Slave Ship
SPECIAL LIMITED PURCHASE!!
Never been used original Hartley boxes $ 1.00 @
(3 different sizes) while they last