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in the agency’s first seventy-five years. He oversaw the move of materials from the antiquarian society quarters in the capitol building (then located on
Capitol Street) to the capitol annex, which had been recently constructed across the street. At the direction of the Board of Public Works, Lewis also moved some materials from the State Law Library and elsewhere in the capitol. This removal of historical materials from the capitol would prove fortuitous when the capitol burned in 1921. Among the numerous items thus saved from future destruction were records of the antebellum sessions of the Virginia Court of Appeals at Lewisburg. In addition, Lewis was responsible for the agency’s acquisition of Granville Davisson Hall’s records of the Wheeling conventions responsible for the establishment of the State of West Virginia in 1863 and the Civil War records held by West Virginia Adjutant General’s Office.
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the section has managed the highway historical marker program, which was begun in 1934. Archives and
History also has maintained the West Virginia Veterans Memorial Archives since 1997. The state historian and archivist serves as staff for the Records Management and Preservation Board (RMPB), created in 2000 to establish programs for the management and preservation of the counties’ public records. Through the RMPB, grants are awarded to county commissions and a statewide county records preservation project has digitized thousands of pages of deed records. Archives and History also oversees the annual West Virginia History Bowl competition of 8th-grade students around the state and annual West Virginia History Day, which features historical organization displays at the capitol and recognition of local society’s history heroes.
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Virginia State Archives, one of the state’s most important repositories on the history of West Virginia and its residents. As of 2019, the agency held more than 16,000 linear feet of manuscripts and state government archives; 1,000,000 photographs, negatives, slides, and digital images; 76,000 books, 33,000 microfilms, 100,000 film stories and video tapes, as well as thousands of maps, state documents, and periodicals. The section currently subscribes to about six dozen West Virginia newspapers.
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History had available for its use in the capitol building. With additional storage space, Archives and History collections grew almost nine-fold in six years, including the addition of the Boyd B. Stutler Collection of John Brown and Civil War material. Archives and History also was able to request return of state agency records stored at another facility. More recently, the State Archives has acquired county and circuit court records from several West Virginia counties.
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Archives and History, with the legislative act providing that all materials acquired by the antiquarian society with state funds be transferred to the new state agency. The legislation also created the appointive position of state historian and archivist to oversee it, and the governor appointed
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Virginia Archives and History administers several other programs. Unclaimed West Virginia Union Civil War medals were part of the Adjutant General’s materials transferred to Archives and History, which distributes them to proven descendants. Since 1967,
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