West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin will be in Moundsville Monday to participate in the ribbon-cutting for the new Grave Creek Mound Archaelogical Complex. addition.

A grant and money from the state legislature helped start up construction on the new $3.1 million facility a year ago.

The complex is a research facility and museum of artifacts found all over West Virginia and scientists from all over the country already have expressed interest in coming to the new facility to study inside the new laboratory.

While in the Valley Monday, the governor will make a stop at the Bridge Street Middle School in Wheeling.

He will be viewing the structural improvements done to the school with funds from a school building authority grant.