In 1917, You Could Ice Skate Across the Ohio River From West Virginia to Ohio

This morning brought bitterly cold temps for Mountaineers as they stepped outside, but few winters in history can rival the frigid, bone-chilling cold that gripped the Mountain State during the winter of 1917-1918—a season so severe that the Ohio River froze solid along its entire length. More than a century later, this historic winter still holds the record as West Virginia’s coldest.

A Record-Breaking Cold

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