how
the area looked at Christmas when her family first moved to
Holliday's
Cove in
1908. The church in the painting is the Cove Presbyterian
Church
as it appeared before it was rebuilt in 1915. The house on
the right is the
house that the Shakley family moved into in the year 1908.
The Weirton
Community Center was built on this property in 1952. In the
background
is a train on the Pennsylvania Railroad rolling past the New Cumberland
Junction Railroad Station. This railroad station was built in
Holliday's Cove
in the year 1887, when the northern branch of the railroad was
constructed.
Other Organizations participating in the 2008 contest were the Weirton
Millsop Community Center Park Board, Weirton Transit Corp., Rotary Club
of Weirton Heights, Mary H. Weir Public Library, Loyal Order of
Moose
Lodge 688, Weirton Jaycees, Weirton Woman's Club GFWC, City of Weirton,
Downtown Weirton Business and Civic Association, Renaissance Weirton,
Top
of West Virginia Convention and Visitors Bureau, and Rotary Club of
Weirton.
The Weirton
Area Museum has its place in history as the first winner of
this
annual contest held by the Park Board.