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• Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

  … wrought-iron bridges over the Ohio River at Wheeling and Parkersburg. By a … In West Virginia it added the Monongahela River Railroad (Fairmont to Clarksburg) in 1900, … the process of acquiring the Ohio River Railroad from Wheeling through Parkersburg and …

• Banjo

  … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/251, and _Sandy Boys_. Even earlier, in the 1840s, White minstrel performers began to tour river communities, performing a parody of Black life and playing banjo music learned from Black musicians on instruments not unlike ones …

• Hazel Atlas Glass Company

  … , and other products were made by Hazel Atlas. Hazel Atlas glass plants in West Virginia included one along the Tygart River in "Grafton":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2141 (1916–60) that largely produced wide-mouth canning jars, and …

• Barboursville

  … quot;Cabell County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/792 in 1814. Barboursville is located on the "Guyandotte River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/98 and Interstate 64, near "Huntington":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org …

• Ken Hechler

  … of "strip mining":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/645 and led the fight to preserve the "New River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1637. He actively supported Joseph ‘‘Jock’’ Yablonski’s campaign to replace corrupt …

• Henry Clay Furnace

  … with the ironworks, which was located at "Ices Ferry":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/830 on the Cheat River. The brothers operated the furnace until about 1848, at which time the Ellicotts’ business failed. The furnace converted or …

• John Henry

  … /articles/2154, on the "Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1143 near the Greenbrier River in Summers County. These men used sledge hammers to drive long steel bits into treacherous red shale to bore the holes …

• Barns

  … ;Greenbrier":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/33, and other river valleys, constructed barns that show stylistic evidence of their … smaller barns than the ‘‘great barns’’ found in the larger river bottoms of the state, the gentler terrain of the …

• Highland Scenic Highway

  … ":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1274 rivers. The first section of the road is along the North Fork of the Cherry River on State Route 39. After climbing to … a descent for the crossing of the Williams River, the highway climbs back to 4,300 …

• Highway Development

  … U.S. 40), the George Washington Highway that shadowed the Northwestern Turnpike (U.S. 50), and the Midland Trail on the James River & Kanawha Turnpike alignment (U.S. 60). The pace of highway development increased statewide in the 1930s and ’40s. A …

• Hilltop House

  … the historic town of Harpers Ferry. The hotel overlooks the spectacular landscape at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers. It was established by the African-American Lovett family in the late 19th century and has changed hands numerous times …

• Hinton

  … ":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1637 rivers. It is the county seat of & … .org/articles/575 on the New River, completed in 1949, provided employment for many … plans for an amphitheater, a beach, and river access. The 2020 population of Hinton …

• Shawnee

  … in villages along the "Ohio River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … they moved again to the Miami River headwaters in southwest Ohio. They consistently … on white settlers traveling the Ohio River multiplied after 1786 and continued into …

• Shay Locomotives

  … its operations at Curtin on the Cherry River, the largest narrow gauge logging line in … steep coal mine branches in the New River Gorge, the "Chesapeake & Ohio … and in occasional use at "Meadow River Lumber’s":https://www.wvencyclopedia. …

• Sheltering Arms Hospital

  … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1840 became concerned about the social and medical needs of miners in the Kanawha and New River coalfields. In 1887, Peterkin formed a corporation to provide charitable and medical services in the coalfields. Sheltering Arms …

• Shenandoah Bloomery

  … http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/993 on the north bank of Evitts Creek, near its confluence with the "Shenandoah River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/388. Vestal operated the bloomery until about 1760, when the property passed …

• Shinnston

  Shinnston is located on the "West Fork River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1002 at the juncture of U.S. 19 and State Route 131, in northern "Harrison County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/273. Shinns Run and Mudlick …

• Short-Line Railroads

  … line closed in 1930–31. The Valley River Railroad narrow track served a sawmill at … to coke ovens in the nearby New River Gorge until 1956. Standard-gauge lines had … Creek & Northwestern, all along the Kanawha River east of Charleston. Each was less …

• Showboats

  … down the Allegheny, Ohio, and Mississippi rivers, stopping to perform wherever they … showboats regularly appeared on the inland rivers. William Chapman Sr., an Englishman, … up tributaries from the main river. Showboats were floating theaters presenting …

• Tony Beaver

  … outrageous manner. As a young man he naturally preferred the out-of-doors. It was high on a mountain, up mythical ‘‘Eel River,’’ that Tony built his lumbering camp. Folks often sent Tony word, by a jaybird, that they desperately needed help. One winter …

• History of West Virginia

  … New, Ohio, and once-mighty Teays rivers. The "first inhabitants": … steamboat. Construction of steamboats for western rivers quickly became an important industry … on the inland waterways. Steamboats made river improvements imperative. In the 1850s …

• Beckley

  … by one airline from the Raleigh County Memorial Airport. The Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine is located at the city’s New River Park, along with the Youth Museum of Southern West Virginia. "Tamarack":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/681, a …

• Silver Bridge Collapse

  … m., the bridge spanning the Ohio River at "Point Pleasant": … or were rescued from the river. There was a total of … bridge upstream on the Ohio River, built by the same contractor … a part of the "Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge" …

• Sinks of Gandy

  Gandy Creek sinks under the earth at a blind valley south of Yokum Knob in eastern "Randolph County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/8. The stream then flows northeast through a large cave for about three-quarters of a mile and emerges …

• Sistersville

  … org/articles/808, on the "Ohio River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … unusual 20-mile straight stretch in the river. A toll ferry, the last in … minority favoring the Confederacy. The Ohio River Railway was built through Sistersville in …