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• Waterpower

  … West Virginia rivers. These streams eventually included the Ohio, Cheat, Kanawha, Gauley, Potomac, Shenandoah, and New rivers. The state’s oldest hydroelectric plant, at Glen Ferris on the Kanawha River, operated for more than a century before being …

• Watt Powell Park

  … and ran the billiards room in the Kanawha Hotel downtown. It was Powell who convinced … Powell Park occupied the former site of Kanawha Park, a 3,500-seat wooden … 1916 to accommodate professional and amateur baseball. Kanawha Park burned in the 1940s. On …

• Jackson County

  … http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1740, Big Mill Creek, and Big Sandy Creek. Jackson was created from parts of Wood, Mason, and Kanawha counties by an act of the Virginia legislature, March 1, 1831. The county was named in honor of Andrew Jackson, the …

• Wayne County

  Wayne County was established January 18, 1842, from part of Cabell County. It was named for "General ‘‘Mad Anthony’’ Wayne":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/930, a Revolutionary War hero who later defeated Ohio Indian tribes at the 1794 & …

• Capital Punishment

  … introduced in the House of Delegates in 1955, 1957, 1959, and 1963. Finally, in 1965, Democrats Jesse Barker of Kanawha County and Robert Holliday of Fayette County successfully ushered HB 517 through the House. Despite opposition in both the House and …

• WCHS

  WCHS in Charleston is the third-oldest radio station in West Virginia. The AM station went on the air as WOBU, September 15, 1927, with 50 watts at 1120 kHz. A year later it moved to 580 kHz, its present frequency, where it shared time until 1933 with & …

• The Weather

  … on record for the city, paralyzed the Kanawha Valley and closed state government for … , Tucker, Webster, Preston, Barbour, Randolph, and Kanawha. On "June 23, 2016" … in the Clendenin area of northeastern Kanawha County. The flood also devastated …

• Shelley Moore Capito

  … and three terms as governor of West Virginia. Capito began her political career by getting elected to the House of Delegates from Kanawha County in 1996 and 1998. In 2000, when "Bob Wise":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1322 decided to …

• Mudwall Jackson

  … . E. ‘‘Grumble’’ Jones during the "Jones-Imboden Raid":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1059 into the Little Kanawha Valley. Jackson was promoted to brigadier general in 1864 and commanded forces at the "Battle of Droop Mountain": …

• Capitols of West Virginia

  The first West Virginia state capitol was the 1859 "Linsly Institute":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1411 building in Wheeling, serving from June 20, 1863, to April 1, 1870. The building, still a Wheeling landmark, combines the Greek …

• Webster County

  … quot;:https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1672, "Holly":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/453, and "Little Kanawha":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1422 rivers. The county seat is "Webster Springs":http://www …

• T. D. Jakes

  Charismatic preacher and self-described spiritual physician, Bishop T. D. Jakes is senior pastor of the 30,000-member, nondenominational Potter’s House church in Dallas, Texas. Jakes’s message about the healing power of God’s word reaches national and …

• James Produce Company

  The C. H. James family founded the James Produce Company and built it into one of the state’s most successful minority businesses. The business began in 1883 when Charles H. James and his brothers started as backpack peddlers serving the coalfields of …

• Battle of Carnifex Ferry

  … forces pushed the Confederates out of the Kanawha Valley and occupied the strategic " … a counterattack to regain control of the Kanawha Valley and disrupt the attempts to … Ferry and Confederate occupation of the Kanawha Valley might have changed that vote …

• Isaiah Welch

  … Gold Rush, later returning to Western Virginia. He represented "Kanawha County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1103 in the … his sorrel mare. Welch died February 15, 1902, at St. Albans, Kanawha County, and is buried in Bramwell.

• French Carpenter

  … org/articles/1634. Some of Carpenter’s tunes were preserved on a recording released under two different titles: _Elzic’s Farewell_ (Kanawha 301, about 1976) and _Old-Time Songs and Tunes from Clay County_, West Virginia (Folk Promotions, 1964). It features …

• Wertz Field

  The first airport in the Charleston area to offer scheduled airline service, Wertz Field, just west of "West Virginia State College":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1106 (now University) in Institute, opened July 4, 1930. The airport was …

• Fannie Cobb Carter

  … in Harpers Ferry in 1891 and returned home to teach in Kanawha County’s public schools. She continued her education by attending … . In 1935, Carter was named director of adult education for Kanawha County schools. She retired after two years, but her …

• Don West

  … . His best-known books include _O Mountaineers: A Collection of Poems_ (1974) and _In a Land of Plenty: A Don West Reader_ (1982). West retired from the Folklife Center in the late 1980s and lived at Cabin Creek, Kanawha County, until his death.

• Jehovah’s Witnesses

  … In response the Witnesses established several ‘‘Kingdom Schools’’ around the state, the first in September 1941, in Clarksburg. Three Kanawha County families filed court challenges to the expulsions and won a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in _West …

• Jerry West

  Basketball player Jerry Alan West (May 28, 1938 - June 12, 2024), on Cabin Creek, "Kanawha County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1103, is widely regarded as the best athlete West Virginia has produced. West led East Bank High School …

• Jenkins Raid

  … . This reduction of federal strength in the Kanawha Valley did not pass unnoticed. On … sweep through the area north of the Kanawha Valley. "Gen. Albert G. Jenkins& … raid proved that Union defenses in the Kanawha Valley were inadequate and on September …

• Job’s Temple

  Job’s Temple, a church nestled on a hillside near the confluence of Job’s Run and the Little Kanawha River in "Gilmer County":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2110, had its origins in the differences leading up to the Civil War. The church …

• Celoron de Blainville

  … streams in the name of Louis XV, king of France. Celoron’s party traveled down the Ohio to the mouth of the Kanawha River at the present site of "Point Pleasant":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1888 and buried another plate on August …

• Mother Jones

  … of Stanaford":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/547 in February 1903. After seeing UMWA locals established in the Kanawha Valley and the reorganization of the West Virginia Federation of Labor, Mother Jones answered a call from striking …