#DidYouKnow that the longest vote to elect a House Speaker was in 1856? It took two months and 133 ballots to elect General Nathaniel Prentiss Banks (MA) as House Speaker. Banks was a member of the nativist American Party that opposed expanding slavery into new, Western states.
Joseph Davidson was a Revolutionary War soldier and one of the early settlers of Bluefield, WV. His cabin was constructed about 1796 and still stands. #Learnlocal#Extra
The two-story cabin was moved from its original site in 1939 to make room for the Park Central High School. African American students in Bluefield attended school in this building until Bluefield integrated their high schools in 1969.
You've driven by this historical marker hundreds of times but never got close enough to read it. Here's the story of Andrew Davidson, one of Bluefield's original settlers. Check it out.
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