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• Gauley Bridge

  … the picturesque confluence of the "Gauley":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … tunnel was driven three miles through Gauley Mountain, and tunnel workers almost … S. history. Despite its long history, Gauley Bridge became an incorporated municipality …

• Buffalo Creek & Gauley Railroad

  The Buffalo Creek & Gauley Railroad was built in 1904 from … 1960s, the Buffalo Creek & Gauley was well known for its … of the Buffalo Creek & Gauley steam locomotives are preserved, but … , when the Buffalo Creek & Gauley No. 4, built in 1926, …

• Kanawha Falls

  … /articles/2245, just downstream from "Gauley Bridge":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1637 and "Gauley":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … dam and falls extends upstream to Gauley Bridge, combining with the mountain …

• Weston & Gauley Bridge Turnpike

  … , work began on the Weston & Gauley Bridge Turnpike, which eventually stretched … the antebellum period. The Weston & Gauley Bridge Turnpike Company was authorized by … served until 1930. The Weston & Gauley Bridge Turnpike was completed in …

• Gauley River

  … to form the Kanawha River at "Gauley Bridge":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … . Only a few settlements appeared along Gauley River until the coal and timber … to the National Park System as the Gauley River National Recreation Area in 1988. …

• Gauley Mountain

  … the spurs of the Allegheny Mountains. Gauley Mountain generally resembles the shape of … early 1900s; consequently, the hardwoods on Gauley Mountain are now generally 70 … www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/75. The Gauley Mountain Trail, which runs via …

• Alexander Welch Reynolds

  … Infantry at the "Battle of Carnifex Ferry":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/971 (after which he was known as ‘‘Old Gauley’’ for the river on whose banks the battle was fought), he rose to the rank of brigadier general. After the war, on …

• William Starke Rosecrans

  … Clarksburg in early September to reinforce Gen. Jacob Cox at Gauley Bridge. Rosecrans encountered Floyd at the "Battle of … the stalemate, departed in late October. In operations around Gauley Bridge from October 29 to November 14, Floyd attempted to …

• Allegheny Mountains

  … the Elk (4,345 feet) and "Gauley":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2283 … Mountains are the headwaters of the "Gauley":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2096 … (3,846 feet), Middle (3,993 feet), Gauley (4,571 feet), Red Lick (4, …

• Short-Line Railroads

  … absorbed several coal railroads south of Thurmond, and others near the lumber town of Rainelle. The Middle Creek, Buffalo Creek & Gauley, and Middle Fork railroads all connected to the Coal & Coke (later B&O) line between "Charleston& …

• Hubert Skidmore

  … was retrieved from oblivion by "Jim Comstock":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1493 in 1970, in his effort to reprint important West Virginia material, and later reprinted in a facsimile edition by Thomas In-Prints of Gauley Bridge.

• Hominy Falls Mine Disaster

  At approximately 10 a.m. May 6, 1968, a continuous miner machine at the Gauley Coal & Coke Saxsewell No. 8 mine in Nicholas County cut into an unmapped adjacent mine, which was filled with water. The resulting inundation drowned four miners and trapped …

• Spy Rock

  … into a sea of mud, and nothing could move. Misery, sickness, and hunger began to pile up more casualties than any fighting. At Spy Rock, Cox with more than 500 sick decided to fall back to Gauley Bridge, while Lee retreated eastward to Meadow Bluff.

• Streams

  … includes such rivers as the Guyandotte, Tug Fork, Greenbrier, New, Gauley, Elk, Coal, Kanawha, Little Kanawha, Cheat, Tygart Valley, … .org/articles/33 flows south to the New; the "Gauley River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2096 flows …

• Summersville

  … 1898. Summersville was located on the "Weston & Gauley Bridge Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … ;:https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/631 and nearby "Gauley River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2096 …

• Summersville Lake State Park

  Summersville Lake, located on the "Gauley River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2096 in Nicholas … draw-down have spawned a multimillion dollar whitewater industry on the Gauley River downstream. With its large summer size and scenic …

• J. G. Bradley

  … Supreme Court, Bradley had just graduated from Harvard Law School when he became vice president of the "Buffalo Creek & Gauley Railroad":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/700. He soon became president of the Elk River Coal & Lumber …

• Braxton County

  … War troops camped; a section of the "Weston & Gauley Bridge Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1146; … includes a 10-mile stretch of the "Weston and Gauley Bridge Turnpike":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1146, …

• Sutton

  … http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1089. The "Weston & Gauley Bridge Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1146 … . A suspension bridge was constructed on the Weston & Gauley Bridge Turnpike across the Elk River at Sutton in …

• Teays River

  … The headwaters of the Teays River included the modern "New":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1637 and "Gauley":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2096 rivers, and the upper "Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia. …

• Bulltown

  … at the mouth of Strouds Creek, on the nearby "Gauley River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2096. While & … June 1861 until April 1865 because the "Weston & Gauley Bridge Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1146 …

• Tourism

  … ski resorts and of gambling facilities at state racetracks. A robust whitewater rafting industry has developed, on the New, Gauley, Cheat, and other rivers, and an extensive network of "trails for all-terrain vehicles":https://www.wvencyclopedia …

• Hydroelectricity

  … Pennsylvania. The Ohio, Cheat, Kanawha, Gauley, Potomac, Shenandoah, and New rivers … the Summersville Dam on "Gauley River":http://www.wvencyclopedia … installations at London, Marmet, Winfield, Gauley Bridge, New Martinsville, Summersville, and …

• Turnpikes

  … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2108, completed from Pearisburg, Virginia, to Kanawha Falls in 1848, and the "Weston & Gauley Bridge Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1146, opened in 1858. Despite Virginia’s ambitious effort, …

• George W. Imboden

  … /833, had already established himself politically in Virginia. George acted as attorney and served as a director of the Gauley Mountain Coal Company, the Loup Creek Colliery, and the Deepwater Railway. Imboden served Ansted and Fayette County from 1870 …