A West Virginia Department of Transportation throwback shared in What Weston Needs shows heavy machinery cutting the path for Interstate 79 through Lewis County's hills in 1969. A separate WVU Libraries archive image documents the same transformation near Jane Lew three years earlier.
The 1966 aerial photograph, credited to Herb Clagg and acquired from the Morgantown Post, shows the future highway grade, bridge work, equipment, and existing homes spread across the valley. Together, the two images capture how much earthwork was required before pavement could connect the county to the growing interstate network.
The Weston-to-Jane Lew segment opened in 1973. Its exits helped shift travel and commerce toward the county's outskirts, while the later connection with Corridor H reinforced Weston as a regional crossroads.
That change carried mixed consequences: faster north-south access and new development opportunities arrived as older rail and industrial activity declined. The preserved Facebook post, WVU catalog record, and local historical context are now stored with the portal article so the story and image do not depend on another Facebook scrape.