In 1975, Morgantown PRT, an experimental automated system which exhibits some ( but not all ) features of PRT, was opened to the public after significant construction cost overruns.

The Confederate-Union Veterans ' Monument in Morgantown, a zinc monument, was dedicated in 1907 on the Butler County Courthouse lawn.

By 1934 State Road 135 north from Nashville to Morgantown had been built and in that year was hardsurfaced.

Morgantown Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

The west side of the town was once called Morgantown ; the east side, Williamstown.

Cook was born in Morgantown, West Virginia and grew up in Evanston, Illinois.

The growth of downtown Morgantown limited the space available on the original campus ; therefore, the new site was located nearly two miles north on what had been farmland.

Knotts was born in Morgantown, West Virginia, a son of William Jesse Knotts and his wife, the former Elsie L. Moore.

He attended the public schools and was graduated from the West Virginia University at Morgantown in 1876.

He was associated as well with the Software Valley Corporation in Morgantown, West Virginia.

However, the market for these systems proved to be overestimated, and only one of these US-designed small AGT's was constructed as a mass transit system, the Morgantown PRT.

Originally dismissed as a " white elephant " when it was being built, today it is credited by the mayor for being one of the reasons Morgantown had the lowest unemployment rate in the United States during the recession of the 2000's.

He died in Morgantown, West Virginia and was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery.

Born near Morgantown ( and kin to its founder Zackquill Morgan ), Pierpont grew up in western Virginia, in what is today Marion County, West Virginia ; he was linked with the region's history for the rest of his life.

Zackquill Morgan founded Morgantown, West Virginia in Monongalia County, where he died on New Year's Day in 1795 and was buried in the quiet country cemetery at Prickett's Fort, where many of his old friends and neighbors lay sleeping.

Nicholas Decker was an heir of Garrett Decker, who was a member of the unfortunate Decker settlement of 1758 ; his settlement in 1766 at the mouth of Deckers Creek was certainly one of the earliest on the site of the present city of Morgantown.

In 1782, after the extension of the Mason-Dixon line made his home a part of Pennsylvania, the county seat was moved south, first to Colonel John Evans ' home and ultimately to Zackquill Morgan's home in present-day Morgantown.

TEMPERANCE MORGAN was born in 1760 in Morgantown, Monongalia, West Virginia, USA.

v. LEVI MORGAN was born on 26 Jun 1766 in Morgantown, Monongalia, West Virginia, USA.

Since 1992, Tatsuruhama's sister city was Morgantown, Kentucky, United States of America.

He was also a fan favorite in Morgantown and inspired a record, " Ole Hoss ( The Ballad of West Virginia's Jeff Hostetler )".

Clymer was born in Morgantown, Berks County, Pennsylvania on November 3, 1827.

* February 7 – West Virginia University is established in Morgantown, West Virginia.

1946: The Synthesis Gas Branch Experiment Station was established as government-sponsored coal-gasification research at West Virginia University facilities in Morgantown, West Virginia.

1977: All three research centers became technology center under the newly established U. S. DOE: Bartlesville Energy Technology Center ( BETC ), Morgantown Energy Technology Center ( METC ), and Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center ( PETC ).

Most of the county is drained by the Schuylkill River, but an area in the northeast is drained by the Lehigh River via the Little Lehigh Creek and areas are drained by the Susquehanna River via the Swatara Creek in the northwest and the Conestoga River ( which starts in Berks County between Morgantown and Elverson ) in the extreme south.

Morgantown is now served by the William H. Natcher Parkway, which is designated as part of the future Interstate 66 corridor and the future Interstate 67 corridor.

According to many townspeople, in the early days of transportation if you made it from Morgantown, West Virginia to the borough by 4: 00 P. M. you had a " fair chance " of making it to Uniontown before sundown.

Samuel Steel built a sawmill at Jenner Crossroads in 1817 ; John Shopwood opened a hotel in 1825, and Samuel Elder opened the first store in 1836 Other early industry in the township included a sawmill on Quemahoning Creek built about 1813 by Moses Fream and a small woolen mill, built in 1817 by William Dalley, enlarged by Owen and William Morgan later into a small settlement known as Morgantown.

The Pioneers, by Earl L. Core, West Virginia University and Morgantown Public Library.

The seating area of the facility was renamed " Milan Puskar Stadium " in 2004 after a $ 20 million donation to the university by Morgantown resident and founder of Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Milan Puskar.

Although the founders were always loyal to these principles, the immediate catalyst for the College's establishment was perhaps less lofty: by 1882, Methodists believed they had lost control of West Virginia University in Morgantown, leading to an exodus from the state university of Methodist students who now sought an educational alternative.

The premiere episode of the Andy Griffith Show begins with Andy telling Opie he was raised by Aunt Bee, who is about to return to Mayberry after a five year sojourn in Morgantown, West Virginia ( the real-life hometown of Don Knotts, the actor who portrayed Barney Fife ).

Returning from a visit to his western lands, after following McCulloch's Path ( then the most important route across the rugged ridges between the valleys ), he crossed the North Branch Potomac River on the future route of the greater Virginia highway which was partially realized in the ' state road ' authorized from Winchester via Romney to Morgantown before 1786, and extended westward in 1786 by a branch road from near Cheat to Clarksburg, from which the first road was marked to the mouth of the Little Kanawha River between 1788 and 1790.

Sponsored by mission the First Presbyterian Church in Morgantown and the church's National Board of Missions, " The Shack " sought to meet the spiritual as well as the social and physical needs of coal miners and their families.

** Order 2008-5-37 ( May 27, 2008 ): re-selecting Colgan Air, Inc. d / b / a United Express, to provide subsidized essential air service ( EAS ) at Morgantown and Clarksburg / Fairmont, West Virginia, at a total annual subsidy rate of $ 2, 116, 650, for the two-year period of June 1, 2008, through May 31, 2010, requesting proposals, with or without subsidy, by June 18 from carriers interested in providing EAS at Parkersburg, West Virginia, for a new two-year period, beginning when the carrier inaugurates full service, and setting a final rate for an interim period for Colgan ’ s service at Parkersburg, West Virginia, in order for the carrier to be compensated, from June 1, 2008, until further Department action, pending the completion of the carrier-selection case.

In 2004, the Progress and its sister newspapers were sold by Wilson Jr. — by then the sole remaining member of the Wilson family still involved in the business — to Jobe Publishing, Inc., based in Morgantown and publishers of the Butler County Banner and Green River Republican.

Nicholas Decker, the first settler to establish a settlement in the vicinity of what is now Morgantown, on 29 April 1781, surveyed for Zackquill Morgan assignee of Isaac Lemasters, of land in Monongalia County, on Deckers Creek and the Monongahela River, including his settlement thereon in the year 1772, agreeable to and in part of a certificate for from the commissioners of adjusting claims to unpatented lands in the county of Monongalia — James Chew, assisted Mr. James Madison, surveyor.

His son, Zackquill Morgan, later founded present-day Morgantown.

Another son, Zackquill, founded Morgantown, West Virginia.

Despite the accounts of various historians, we still do not know when Zackquill Morgan settled on the site of Morgantown, nor indeed, who made the first settlement on that site.

A younger brother Zackquill ( Zackwell ) Morgan founded Morgantown, West Virginia which is the town where West Virginia University is located.