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Resources For Further Information On the Buffalo Creek Disaster
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Buffalo Creek Virtual Museum,
Morrow Library, Marshall University
Includes brief history of each Buffalo Creek community and a listing of community members that were killed, dam building & failure chronology, WSAZ video and audio from immediately after the flood, personal accounts, court case documents, report from the Governor’s Ad Hoc Inquiry.
Voices of Buffalo Creek, the Charleston Gazette Online
An excellent week-long series of articles looking back on the disaster at the time of the 25th Anniversary. Includes the original Gazette coverage, Report of the Citizen’s Commission to Investigate the Disaster on Buffalo Creek, Gazette reporter Paul Nyden’s chapter on Buffalo creek from his 1974 dissertation, related web sites.Buffalo Creek, West Virginia State Archives,
West Virginia Division of Culture and History
Created for the 25th Anniversary of the flood, the site includes many pictures, background history of the communities before the flood, and much information about what happened after the disaster. Includes list of victims, and resources available at the State Library including many Government reportsRootsweb: Logan-Mingo County Genealogy
This site includes oral histories from Buffalo Creek Flood survivors. Survivors can continue to add their stories.
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