The Belmont County Tourism Council celebrated a year of remarkable accomplishments at its Annual Christmas Party on Monday evening, highlighting major tourism milestones and presenting the 2025 Mattox Award to the Epworth Park Foundation.
Travel back in time through photographs of the area’s past each week in the Enterprise Album.
Travel back in time each week through the pages of the former Barnesville Enterprise and former Barnesville Whetstone newspapers.
Several stories from the Thanksgiving Weekend Snow of 1950 were shared by readers of Barnesville Area News.
Karl F. Eichhorn, Jr., a 1943 BHS grad, WWII veteran, and lifelong professional photographer, was in town and recorded the 1950 Thanksgiving Snowstorm.
The Thanksgiving Snowstorm in 1950 ground transportation and the local economy to a halt for several weeks.
The Tacoma Post Office unit and sign were recently donated to the Watt Center for History and the Arts.
Area history is revealed weekly through the Enterprise Album, a feature that ran in the former Barnesville Enterprise from 1948 until its end in 2021.
Travel back in time through the pages of the former Barnesville Enterprise and former Barnesville Whetstone newspapers.
The Underground Railroad Museum is preparing to welcome Civil War author and historian Daniel Dorsch during the Thanksgiving weekend.