Qualla: Waldomore https://qualla.com/waldomore en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:07 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/z/waldomore-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Waldomore https://qualla.com/waldomore Waldomore: Introduction https://qualla.com/waldomore/ Photo credit Tim Kiser (w:User:Malepheasant), CC BY-SA 2.5. The name is a portmanteau, the way some Hollywood couples merge their names today. Waldo Goff married Harriet L. Moore, and when they built their two-story Neo-Classical brick mansion in late 1839, they coined the word Waldomore from his first name and her last. The house has held its place at the corner of Pike Street ever since. It outlasted the Goffs, became a public library, and now houses one of the more unusual archives in West Virginia - the books and papers of Gray Barker, the Clarksburg writer who introduced the phrase "Men in Black" to American UFO folklore.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/z/waldomore-wp/dnyz-waldomore-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Waldomore: Waldo Goff and a 4-Acre Tract https://qualla.com/waldomore/ Photo credit WeaponizingArchitecture, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Waldomore went up in 1839 on a four-acre tract that ran from Pike Street down to Elk Creek. Waldo P. Goff, born in 1796, was the fifth son in a New York family that had migrated to Harrison County in 1804. He became a lawyer and politician of the kind that filled the early st...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/z/waldomore-wp/dnyz-waldomore-waldo-goff-and-a-4-acre-tract.mp3 0:06 2 full Waldomore: The Most Famous Goff https://qualla.com/waldomore/ Photo credit WeaponizingArchitecture, CC BY-SA 4.0. Nathan Goff Jr. went on to serve as Secretary of the Navy under President Rutherford B. Hayes - one of the few West Virginians to hold a Cabinet post in the 19th century. He ran for governor of West Virginia in 1876 and lost to Henry Mathews. He served in the U.S. House of Repres...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/z/waldomore-wp/dnyz-waldomore-the-most-famous-goff.mp3 0:06 3 full Waldomore: From Family Home to Public Library https://qualla.com/waldomore/ Photo credit WeaponizingArchitecture, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1930, May Goff Lowndes - a Goff descendant - donated the Waldomore to the City of Clarksburg. The gift came with a single binding condition: the building could only be used as a public library or museum, and for no other purpose. The city accepted the terms. From 1931 to 1976,...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/z/waldomore-wp/dnyz-waldomore-from-family-home-to-public-library.mp3 0:06 4 full Waldomore: The Gray Barker Collection https://qualla.com/waldomore/ Photo credit WeaponizingArchitecture, CC BY-SA 4.0. Today the Waldomore houses materials relating to West Virginia culture and history, a collection for genealogical research, and the personal papers of Gray Barker. Barker was a Clarksburg-area writer who turned a 1952 flying saucer sighting into a career investigating UFO reports...

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