West Virginia Posters, Prints, Maps, Photographs & Calendars
for educators and home schoolers; themed decor in studio or office.

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Greetings from West Virginia, Art Prints

Greetings from West Virginia ~

Beckley, Berkeley Springs, Charleston,
Elkton, Fairmont, Grafton, Huntington, Keyser, Parkersburg, Point Pleasant, Princeton, Wheeling.

Rhododendron, State Flower of WV, Art Print

The Rhododendron maximum, or “big laurel,” has been the state flower of West Virginia since 1903. The West Virginia Rhododendron is a shrub with large, dark evergreen leaves and delicate pale pink or white bloom, with either red or yellow flecks.

There is a wide variety of Rhododendron, both evergreen and deciduous, spread around the world. The Rhododendron is also the national flower of Nepal.

The word Rhododendron is from the Greek rodo = rose + dendro = tree.

Cardinals, the State Bird of West Virginia, are passerine birds (perching songbirds) native to both North and South America. Cardinals have red plummage and are seed eaters.

Cardinals are also the state bird of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, and Virginia.

The West Virginia State Animal, the Black Bear, Ursus americanus, is found primarily is in the eastern mountain region of the state. FYI, the Black Bear is actually deeply tinted with brown.

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Brook Trout Art Print

The West Virgina State Fish, the Brook Trout, thrives in small, cold, spring-fed streams. The brook trout is olive with lighter sides and a reddish belly (in males) and is easily identified by the light-colored edges of the lower fins.

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Sugar Maple Leaves Giclee Print

The Sugar Maple, the State Tree of West Virginia, is one of the most important trees and beautiful trees. Along with the Black Maple, it is the major source of sap for making maple syrup, and its wood is desired in furniture and flooring. While the Sugar Maple is easy to transplant, and fairly fast growing, it doesn't like its roots compacted and is not tolerant of pollution. It is also the state tree of New York, Vermont, and Wisconsin.

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Golden Delicious Art Print

The Golden Delicious Apple, discovered by Anderson Mullins in Clay County in 1905, was designated as the official state fruit by the West Virginia Legislature on February 20, 1995.

• The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World - learn about apples.

Miners on Strike Lick Creek, WV, Giclee Print

The fossil fuel coal is a combustible rock formed by compressed layers of annual plant remains primarily during the Carboniferous period (359.2 ± 2.5 Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Permian period, about 299.0 ± 0.8 Ma, is abundant in West Virginia.

FYI - Carboniferous means “coal-bearing”, based on the Latin word for coal, carbo.

Matewan, Movie Poster

Matewan, West Virginia was the site of a shootout on May 19, 1920 between local miners and a private detective agency. The 1987 movie Matewan is about the conflict.

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From a West Virginia Historical Marker - “Construction of nearby tunnel, diverting waters of New River through Gauley Mt for hydroelectric power, resulted in state's worst industrial disaster. Silica rock dust caused 109 admitted deaths in the mostly black, migrant underground work force of 3,000. Congressional hearing placed toll at 476 for 1930-35. The tragedy brought recognition of acute silicosis as occupational lung disease and compensation legislation to protect workers.”

Muriel Rukeyser also wrote about the Hawks Next tragedy.

Harper's Ferry is at the confluence of the Potomac and the Shenandoah Rivers. 
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Native American Cultures - Northeast Poster

Northeast Native American Cultures -
The northeastern part of the U.S. and Canada includes coastal lands, rivers, the Great Lakes, valleys and mountains. before the arrival of European settlers, this region was mostly one vast forest. In these woodlands teeming with deer, bear, rabbit, and other animals, most of the Indians were hunters and gatherers. They also fished in the lakes and rivers. In wet marshy areas Indians gathered wild rice. And in the summer, some tribes planted crops of corn, squash, and beans. ...

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