Latest Past Events

Grave Creek: Fossil Day

Grave Creek Mound 801 Jefferson Ave, Moundsville

Do you have a mystery fossil? Bring it for expert identification by Dr. Elizabeth Rhenberg from the WV Geological and Economic Survey! Don’t have a fossil? A fossil display by members of the West Virginia Fossil Club will showcase some of their specimens and answer questions about collecting fossils, and Taylor McCoy from Pittsburgh will... View Article

Grave Creek: Green Your Winter Blues

Grave Creek Mound 801 Jefferson Ave, Moundsville

Join us for an afternoon with Ainsley Gray, Agricultural Program Assistants at the Marshall County Cooperative Extension Office, members of Ohio County Master Gardeners, and museum volunteers. Learn about monarch butterflies, take seeds from the museum’s Interpretive Garden to grow at home, propagate a house plant, make a “Sprout House” for germinating seeds, and more.

Grave Creek: Film: Roots of Resistance: The Story of the Underground Railroad

Grave Creek Mound 801 Jefferson Ave, Moundsville

Produced in 2005 by the WGBH Educational Foundation, part of the PBS American Experience Series.  Told through the narratives of escaped slaves and their descendants, this is the story of the secret network of deeply committed individuals who helped escaped slaves find their way to freedom.

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