The former Civil War hospital on Avery Street in Parkersburg has been purchased by Wood County Economic Development who plans to renovate it and use it as their office. (Photo by Michelle Dillon) ...

The former Civil War hospital on Avery Street in Parkersburg has been purchased by Wood County Economic Development who plans to renovate it and use it as their office. (Photo by Michelle Dillon) ...

The building was used, among other things, as a smallpox hospital during the Civil War. You can read more about the building's history at ...

There has been a lot written and spoken about the Hammond Hospital at Point Lookout and Oct. 29 at the Leonardtown Library presenter Susan Youhn spoke about some of the nurses and doctors who worked ...

The house, she said, has been owned and maintained by a multigenerational family since its last sale, for $930,000, in 1986. It’s now listed at $8.5 million, down from an initial price of $10.8 ...

The complex of buildings atop Summit Hill, some of which are over 175 years old, has been home to a wide variety of ...

When soldiers of the South massed around Richmond at the beginning of the Civil War, the city needed more than drill fields and barracks. Richmond needed hospitals, lots of hospitals. Casualties came ...

Clad in a dark dress with a black head scarf and starched white apron, Marlene Rivero incorporated song, props and stories to tell about the life of Ann Stokes, a nurse on Civil War hospital ship USS ...