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• Charles Hodel

  … to buy it from him. Built in the early 1950s, the new airport attracted commercial airline service to the county. Hodel helped … /320 at nearby Grandview. He also campaigned for the development of New River Park in Beckley and worked to bring non-mining …

• Holidays and Celebrations

  … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1757, Labor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and New Year’s Day. In an overwhelmingly Christian state, … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/290, of indeterminate origin, marks the New Year in Lewisburg. West Virginia is among the …

• Berkeley County

  … of the settlers came from Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey. Samuel Taylor had a … wartime conditions. Their inclusion in the new state was later confirmed by the U. … . In the 1970s, more industries came. A new 840-bed Veteran’s Administration building …

• Slavery

  … into the Shenandoah Valley came between 1768 and 1810, when Tidewater Virginians left their depleted tobacco plantations for new lands. These planters became wheat and general farmers and sometimes retained plantation ideals. Slaves with overseers often …

• Ada ‘‘Bricktop’’ Smith

  … . At 16 she performed on the vaudeville circuit. Soon afterward New York saloon keeper Barron Wilkins gave her the nickname ‘‘Bricktop’’ … Haskins, was published in 1983, just before her death in New York City. She was inducted into the "West Virginia …

• Homer Adams Holt

  … marginal allegiance to the "New Deal":http://www.wvencyclopedia … ’s philosophical stance on the New Deal policies of the national … , as opposed to a liberal New Deal element in the party … .org/articles/823 company in New York City. After becoming vice …

• Berkeley Woolen Mills

  … Other principal stockholders were from Martinsburg, nearby Winchester, Virginia, and New York City. By December 1914, the West Virginia … S. Army. With its wartime profits, Berkeley Woolen added new buildings that included a dye house and other improvements …

• Rush Holt

  … and served in the House of Delegates, 1931–35. Originally an avid "New Deal":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2265 Democrat, Holt burst onto … in his father’s footsteps in 1998 when he was elected to Congress as a New Jersey Democrat.

• Agnes Smith

  … . She spent her childhood in Clarksburg and Charleston and finished high school at the Academy of St. Joseph in Brentwood, New York. She graduated from "Fairmont State College":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2233 (now University) with a …

• Home Rule

  … provided that municipalities may adopt their own charters, consistent with state law. Prior to that only the legislature could enact such charters. In 1969, the legislature enacted a new Municipal Code that modernized regulation of cities and towns.

• Chu Berry

  … band alongside young trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. After gigs, Berry and Gillespie joined the late-night jammers who gave birth to the new bebop style. Berry’s more famous solos include records of _Ghost Of A Chance_ with Calloway, _Hot Mallets_ with Lionel …

• Hulett Smith

  … Barron appointed Smith head of the new Department of Commerce. His responsibilities … governor, the death penalty was abolished, new human rights legislation was passed, … when legal challenges to the new environmental regulations revealed weaknesses in the …

• Joseph Lawton Beury

  … the first coal from the New River Coalfield. Beury learned mining … knowledge with him to the new southern West Virginia "coal … of Quinnimont and opening the New River Coal Company mine. He … Fire Creek mines, also on New River, and later operated at …

• Michael W. Smith

  … Michael W. Smith Project_, in 1983. His 1990 song ‘‘Place in this World’’ hit the gospel music top 10, and he was named New Artist of the Year at the American Music Awards in 1992. In 1992, he received an honorary doctorate of music degree from " …

• Hope Gas

  … Standard Oil combined its gas subsidiaries, including Hope, under a new, independent gas company, Consolidated Natural Gas. In 1965, Hope Natural Gas Company and New York State Natural Gas Corporation merged to form Consolidated …

• Smoke Hole Lodge

  … when "floodwaters":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2197 swept it away. By 1987, Edward Stifel III had constructed a new three-story lodge. Beyond the reach of electric service, the stone-and-wood structure was furnished with gas lights, …

• Bill Hopen

  … /650 was born April 13, 1951, in New York City. His works appear in government … , a branch of the City University of New York, and is largely self-taught as a … . Other public commissions appear in Baton Rouge, New York, Wichita, and elsewhere, and Hopen’s …

• Smoot Theatre

  … gilt art deco designs on the walls and ceiling; mauve, jade, blue, and beige stained-glass chandeliers; gold leaf around the proscenium; new mahogany and brass doors; and a hand-cut Austrian crystal chandelier in the lobby. In the final decade of the 20th …

• Birds

  … nests were reported in West Virginia, up from just 13 in 2002. Attempts to reintroduce peregrine falcons in the "New River Gorge":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1641 and near the "Eastern Panhandle":http://www.wvencyclopedia. …

• Jeff Hostetler

  … to open the 1982 season. The win helped establish WVU as an ascending national football power for the coming decades. Hostetler joined the New York Giants in 1984 and became an instant hero in 1991 when, filling in for the injured Phil Simms, he led the …

• Jedediah Hotchkiss

  … Hotchkiss (November 3, 1828-January 17, 1899) was born in Windsor, New York. He was educated at local schools and through self-study, … . Thus, he ensured the building of a church at the new town of Dunlow, and was secretary of a committee appointed by the …

• Snowshoe Mountain Resort

  … are the largest slopes south of New York, each boasting 1,500 … largest resort development companies. Improvements include new slopes, increased snowmaking capacity, high- … snowboarders, a snow tubing hill, and new lodging, condominiums, shops, and restaurant …

• Socialist Party

  … the onset of the "Great Depression":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2155 would the party experience a revitalization; but by then the New Deal Democrats had stolen too much of the Socialists’ thunder and many of the party’s issues.

• The Black Hand

  … sought to extort money from other Italian immigrants. Thriving in Sicily in the late 19th century, the Black Hand came to the New World as part of the great migration to America’s mines and factories. Soon the mysterious society operated in West Virginia. …

• Black Lung Movement

  … formed the Black Lung Association. The new association hired liberal attorney Paul Kaufman … .org/articles/1361 of 1969. The new law placed strict standards on … administration implemented stricter eligibility standards for new claimants in 1982, ending the …