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• Hydroelectricity

  … located across the state line in Pennsylvania. The Ohio, Cheat, Kanawha, Gauley, Potomac, Shenandoah, and New rivers have all been … nearby Glen Ferris dam and power plant, located at "Kanawha Falls":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1110. …

• Tu-Endie-Wei

  … .org/articles/1740 and "Great Kanawha":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … that served travelers along the Ohio and Kanawha. Known today as the Mansion House, … www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1435 in the Kanawha Valley. It now houses a museum. …

• Cabell County

  … the Virginia General Assembly on January 2, 1809, from part of Kanawha County. Cabell County lies along the Ohio River in … of these trails was upgraded to the "James River & Kanawha Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/978 (modern …

• William H. Cabell

  … Court justice and later died at his residence in Richmond. He is buried at Shockoe Hill Cemetery in Richmond. "Kanawha County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1103 was divided in January 1809, soon after Cabell’s service as governor, …

• Turnpikes

  … while the "James River & Kanawha Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org … included the "Giles, Fayette & Kanawha Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia. … /2108, completed from Pearisburg, Virginia, to Kanawha Falls in 1848, and the & …

• Calhoun County

  … culture remains strongest. The "Little Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org … European descent also traveled the Little Kanawha and its tributaries. The first … the upper reaches of the Little Kanawha and its tributaries. Everything from …

• Cecil Underwood

  … Charlotte Pritt":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1925 of Kanawha County. In the ensuing fall campaign, Underwood defeated Pritt … Wise":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1322 of Kanawha County. A majority of West Virginia voters for the …

• Camp Brock

  In 1935, the state Department of Public Welfare established Camp Brock on the campus of "West Virginia State College (now University)":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1106 at Institute. Camp Brock was part of a system of camps intended to …

• Unitarian Universalism

  … other events. The Unitarian Fellowship of Huntington is located on Sixth Avenue. Although the present Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of the Kanawha Valley dates back only to 1953, there was a group of Unitarians in "Charleston":http://www. …

• United Bank

  … these banks were renamed United National Bank. In 1986, United National joined forces with InterMountain Bankshares and its subsidiary, Kanawha Banking and Trust. In 2002, United National Bank converted to a state charter, becoming United Bank. In 2005 …

• United Carbon Building

  The United Carbon Building is an architecturally significant office building in Charleston that was designed in the streamlined modern style of the 1930s and 1940s. In 1939, Oscar Nelson, president of the United Carbon Company, commissioned Charleston …

• United Mine Workers of America

  … to maintain a union toehold in the "Paint Creek and Cabin Creek":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1798 areas of Kanawha County led to a bloody confrontation. During World War I, coal production expanded in West Virginia, and a tenuous …

• Indian Trails

  … portion of the trail that followed the Kanawha River is also called the " … of another old Indian trail from the Kanawha Valley to Virginia. The Chesapeake Branch … Coal River Trail, and the Little Kanawha Trail. The Scioto-Monongahela Trail connected …

• Indian Wars

  … included the present "Northern Panhandle":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1700) during the 1770s and 1780s, to the Kanawha and middle Ohio valleys, including Kentucky, during the 1780s and 1790s. But no part of the "frontier": …

• Indians

  … traveling ahead of European-American settlement. By the time the first settlers arrived, the native villages on the Ohio, Kanawha, and Monongahela rivers were abandoned. Archeologists have not been able to relate these villages to tribes known from the …

• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

  … .org/articles/1428 complexes on the Ohio, Great Kanawha, and Monongahela rivers. The entire length of the … , as is nearly all of the Great Kanawha and Monongahela rivers. The lower parts of the Big Sandy, Little Kanawha, and Elk are navigable, as well. Cargo …

• Mary Draper Ingles

  … escaped with another captive. Ingles traveled up the "Ohio":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1740 and "Kanawha":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1123 rivers and on through the New River Gorge, scaling rock cliffs, eating …

• Andre Van Damme

  Dancer Andre Benoni Van Damme (December 16, 1919-February 3, 1989) was born in Belgium. He was admitted to the ballet company of the Royal Opera House of Brussels shortly after his 16th birthday. When his dance career was interrupted by military service, …

• Vandalia Gathering

  The <a href="http://www.wvculture.org/vandalia/" target="_blank">Vandalia Gathering</a>, an annual event, celebrates West Virginia’s heritage of traditional music, crafts, food, folklore, and dance. The Memorial Day Weekend …

• Interstate Highway System

  … border east of Huntington, passing through Wayne, Cabell, Putnam, and Kanawha counties, where it joins I-77 south to a point … north of Morgantown. The 160.52-mile expressway through Kanawha, Clay, Braxton, Gilmer, Lewis, Harrison, Marion, and Monongalia …

• Vernacular Architecture

  … in design, reflected its progress. The Kanawha Valley was settled from eastern Virginia … County, acquired property on the "Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia. … was not often used in early Kanawha Valley buildings. Several building types …

• Irish

  … among the laborers. In the 1820s, the "James River & Kanawha Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/978 ran from … St. Patrick’s Church, one of six in the state. In Kanawha County at Coalburg stands a large Celtic cross, erected in …

• Vines

  … ":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1259, which completely overgrows forests, roadsides, and stream banks in the Kanawha Valley and southern West Virginia. Canada moonseed, bittersweets, clematis, wisteria, and Virginia creeper have poisonous …

• H. Rus Warne

  … successful businessmen sought out Warne to design large, fashionable houses. He designed houses in Edgewood, South Hills, and Kanawha City, growing residential neighborhoods of Charleston. Many were of the Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival styles. As …

• George Washington

  … ":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2344, on the "Ohio River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1740, "Kanawha River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1123, and elsewhere. In 1770, he traveled down the Ohio to …