Helvetia Restoration and Development Organization

08/27/2026

08/09/2026

📅 **Helvetia Community Calendar**

Looking for what’s happening around Helvetia? HRDO maintains a shared community calendar with upcoming events, meetings, activities, and other happenings around the community.

**View the calendar anytime:**
www.helvetiawv.com

**Add the Helvetia Community Calendar to your Google Calendar:**
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=ZXF0ZWt0cTY1NmRwYzE1dmlrcW5qcnJucWNAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ

Subscribing means community events will appear alongside your own calendar and stay up to date as events are added or changed.

Have an event we should include? Send the details our way! We’d love for the calendar to be a useful resource for everyone in and around Helvetia.

08/07/2026

History has a way of surprising us.

Recently, West Virginia historian and HRDO board member Elizabeth Satterfield spent time researching in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, where she uncovered correspondence between Anne Lorentz of Buckhannon and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt dating to late 1933.

In Anne's letter, she shared an article she had written about Helvetia and noted that she was also working on a play inspired by the community. A month later, Eleanor Roosevelt replied that she had read the Department of Agriculture's story about Helvetia and looked forward to reading Anne's article.

For many in Helvetia, stories of the Roosevelts' interest in our village have been shared for generations. This newly uncovered correspondence adds another documented piece to that history while reminding us that Helvetia has long captured the attention and imagination of people far beyond our valley.

One passage from Anne's letter feels especially meaningful today. She wrote that many of the older residents were already gone and worried that their stories might disappear with them.

Nearly a century later, her concern still resonates. Yet Helvetia's story continues because each generation chooses to preserve and share it through photographs, recipes, music, traditions, oral histories, and discoveries like these.

We are grateful to Elizabeth Satterfield for her careful archival research and for sharing this remarkable find with our community.

History is never truly finished. Sometimes it is simply waiting in an archive for someone willing to keep looking.

Special thanks to Elizabeth Satterfield and the Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Papers at the FDR Presidential Library, National Archives, for helping preserve and share this important piece of Helvetia's history.

08/07/2026

07/24/2026

Our hearts are with everyone affected by the recent Lewis/Upshur County flooding. Many families have experienced devastating loss, and now is the time for our community to come together and help however we can.

If you’re able, please consider donating non-perishable food, bottled water, cleaning supplies, toiletries, diapers, pet food, or other essential items. Every donation, no matter the size, can make a meaningful difference.

Please drop off all donations at Swiss Roots, Monday–Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. We will be taking in a truckload next Friday the 31st of July.

Thank you for showing the kindness and generosity that make our community so special. Together, we can help our neighbors begin to rebuild. ❤️

07/10/2026

We love this place and the family that has stewarded it for years.

Property 4916 Pickens Road, Helvetia, 26224 has bedrooms, bathrooms with 7904 square feet.

06/19/2026

The plan for our pavilion project is coming along nicely!!!! Thank you to everyone who has already donated to this community project! The Fair Association and the HRDO are in the process of putting final details together! We are still a little short of funding and would like to give everyone another opportunity to be a part of improving our community for future generations. Below is information on how you can help. Thank you!

06/03/2026

Ohio County Public Library Oak Park Public Library

04/19/2026

Join us after school on the 28th for snacks, books, and pickin' up sticks to tidy up around the place!