Fairmont State GeoSavvy Guide: Tell Your Story With Maps

Fairmont State University students have been using spatial narratives or place-based storytelling to tell our story, reflect on what we are learning, and explore about our world. Here are some of our favorite tools to tell our story or find your own to share.

Clio and Fairmont State University

Join in with Fairmont State University Geography students as we start on the journey to tell our hometown stories using the CLIO app developed at Marshall University. Named after Clio, one of the nine Muses, the ancient Greek goddesses of music, song, and dance. 

Clio is a mobile app and website that connects thousands of people to historic and cultural sites around the United States.  Created by Dr. David Trowbridge of Marshall University, Clio is driven by a nationwide network of contributors from communities and institutions—including classes at universities and colleges—who know their history and want to share it with the world.  As of December 2019, Clio includes articles for over 30,000 landmarks and 600 complete walking tours. Thanks to the support of donors and supporters, Clio is non-profit and free for everyone.

Atlas Obscura and Fairmont State University 

Fairmont State University Geography students have compiled and already started sending in submissions to Atlas Obscura to put Fairmont WV and Fairmont State University on the Atlas Obscura map. 

We want to change the current map to include places that Fairmont State University students associate with the university and think are Atlas Obscura worthy. 

SUCCESS! 

 The Frank and Jane Gabor West Virginia Folklife Center is on the map! Fairmont State University student, Chase Taylor, submitted a submission for the WV Folklife Center 

Wiki Education and Wikipedia

Fairmont State University students participated in the Wiki Education Classroom to use our knowledge of our own hometowns to add geography and geographic concepts edits and to create more robust stories. 

• Wiki Education  teach.wikiedu.org
• How to run a Wikipedia edit-a-thon

StoryMaps and StoryMapsJS

Fairmont State University students love to use spatial narratives from StoryMaps to StoryMapsJS to learn about our interests, share with each other, discover new ways to be creative, and to create stories for ourselves, our clubs, and even resumes. 

Spatial Narrative StoryMaps

We think that Fairmont, WV is a fascinating place. Here are more places we'd like to get on the map. What are yours?

• Barrackville Covered Bridge 

• The Bell at Fairmont State University 

• Birthplace of the Pepperoni Roll 

• Celebration of Lights Fairmont 

• Coffin Hollow 

• Concrete Canoe Display Fairmont State 

• Fairmont High-Level "Million Dollar Bridge" 

• Fairmont State University, formerly West Virginia Normal School 

• Feast of the Seven Fishes Fair Fairmont 

• First Father's Day Service Church 

• The Frank and Jane Gabor West Virginia Folklife Center 

• Highgate Carriage House 

• Historic Woodlawn Cemetery and the Origin of Memorial Day (Decoration Day) 

• Johnnie Johnson "The Father of Rock and Roll" Blues & Jazz Festival 

• Long Point Trail 

• Marion County Historical Society Museum 

• Mary Lou Retton Drive and Youth Park 

• McTrail National Recreation Trail 

• Meredith Tunnel on the McTrail 

• Monongah Mine Disaster Memorial 

• Morris Park Disc Golf 

• Mother's Day Shrine Grafton 

• One-room School House Museum at Fairmont State University 

• Palantine Park Mural 

• Prickett's Fort State Park 

• St. Peter's High School Fairmont and John Knowles 

• Town of Hammond 

• Valley Falls Grist Mill 

• WV Telephone Museum Fairmont 

• Poky Dot 50s Diner 

• Dairy Creme Corner (DCC) 

• WESBANCO (WATSON BUILDING) 

• Katherine Johnson IV&V NASA Facility 

• Jacobs-Hutchinson Block downtown Fairmont 

• Really Big American Flag at Korean Memorial Park