June 20, 2012:  The Celebration at the Marion County Museum with hertiage music, Living History Interrupters, and cake will be going on between the hours of 10 - 2.  Everything is free including parking.  Come join us & learn about Marion County's Involvement in the Civil War.  See some of new Civil War Collection including a 1851 Smithfield rifle made in Harper's Ferry. Marion County Historical Society, Inc. and Museum Adams Street, Fairmont, WV, 26554 304.367.5398 Hours Open Monday to Saturday from 10 am to 2 pm.

Come join us at the Marion County Museum (located right by the Courthouse  in downtown Fairmont) for West Virginia's Birthday on June 2oth from 10 - 2 p.m.  Live heritage music on the front porch. Have a question about West(ern) Virginia History, ask our historian who will be here.  Also, on this date we will be visited by "Susan Holt Camden" who married Dr. Thomas Bland Camden, Superintendent of of WV Hospitals for the Criminally Insane (1872-1880). They were imprisioned with their children in Camp Chase for their Southern sympanthies. Maybe you know her brother-in-law, Johnson Newton Camden.  Johnson Newton   Camden founder of of Monongahela Coal & Coke Company which later became Fairmont Coal with Otis Watson. There will be cake and lemonade.  Tours will be available.  All free to the public.  Parking is also free on this date so come join us & set a spell.  Who knows. we have other visitors from the past.