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• Charles Hodel

  … Hatfields and McCoys’’":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/320 at nearby Grandview. He also campaigned for the development of New River Park in Beckley and worked to bring non-mining industry to the county. Hodel waged a long and bitter editorial …

• Skiing

  … skiing areas are found throughout the eastern mountains of West Virginia. Two businesses, White Grass in Tucker County and Elk River Touring Center in Pocahontas, offer cross-country skiers the opportunity to see some of the state’s wilderness areas. Other …

• Jesse Bennet

  … and baby girl survived. In 1797, Bennet, with his wife and daughter, moved to present Mason County, on the Ohio River about five miles north of "Point Pleasant":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1888. They settled on land granted to …

• Bens Run Earthworks

  The prehistoric Bens Run earthworks were located on a terrace of the "Ohio River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1740 between the present communities of Bens Run and Long Reach, in "Tyler County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Hollidays Cove

  … As late as 1880, only 250 people lived in Hollidays Cove. The village did not have a wharf on the "Ohio River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1740, but it did serve the agricultural interests of sheep raisers and orchardists in southern …

• Holly Grove

  … inn because of its size and its proximity to the "James River & Kanawha Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/978. … brick building with a small entry portico facing the Kanawha River. The walls are 18 inches thick, and there was a …

• Slavery

  … farms, in craft occupations, service enterprises, or small manufacturing operations. In the southwest, below and along the Kanawha River, slaves labored along with their masters in labor-intensive tobacco farming. The extensive industrial use of slaves in …

• Homer Laughlin China Company

  … , they traded factories with the National China Company, ending up with three factories with 36 kilns. They expanded across the Ohio River into West Virginia beginning in 1902. On land purchased in Newell they built two more factories, and the town grew up …

• Joseph Lawton Beury

  … first coal from the New River Coalfield. Beury learned mining in … wife to the "New River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org … Quinnimont and opening the New River Coal Company mine. He was … Creek mines, also on New River, and later operated at Hawks …

• Smoke Hole

  … 2147 counties, the Smoke Hole was carved by the "South Branch":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/514 of the Potomac River between North Fork Mountain on the west and Cave Mountain on the east. Tradition holds that it received its name from …

• Smoke Hole Lodge

  … , the Smoke Hole Lodge sat on the "South Branch":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/514 of the "Potomac River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1904 in a prime natural location. The remote site was accessible only by four- …

• Birds

  … peregrine falcons in the "New River Gorge":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … to mining. We have an abundance of rivers and "streams":http://www. … are conducted near Bluefield on "East River Mountain":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Soils of West Virginia

  … state are located along the Ohio River. The Cumberland Plateau and Mountains land … the blockage of the ancient Monongahela River in Pennsylvania. Remnants of terraces formed … be found in the "Ohio River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles …

• South Charleston

  South Charleston, located on the "Kanawha River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … trail that became the "James River & Kanawha Turnpike":http://www. … to rail, highways, and the Kanawha River. During "World War I" …

• South Charleston Mound

  … Charleston Mound was once surrounded by extensive earthworks that stretched for several miles on both sides of the Kanawha River. South Charleston Mound, like many conical-shaped mounds, is a prehistoric burial place. Archeologists have determined that …

• Sports

  … West Virginia University Tech is a member of the NAIA-level River States Conference. Potomac State College of WVU belongs to the … of Pennsylvania. The visitors, coming by steamboat down the Monongahela River, defeated WVU, 72-0. By the early 1900s, almost …

• Alexander Spotswood

  … crossed the mountains with a group of about 50 gentlemen and several servants, Indians, and rangers. He journeyed up the Rappahannock River and crossed over the Blue Ridge by way of Swift Run Gap into the "Shenandoah Valley":https://www. …

• Harman Blennerhassett

  … settled in 1798 on "Belpre (later Blennerhassett) Island":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/540, in the Ohio River near present "Parkersburg":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1811. In September 1800, their new home, an …

• Spring Hill Cemetery, Charleston

  … public burying ground was located on the old "James River & Kanawha Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/978, next to the Kanawha River near the present intersection of Kanawha Boulevard and Elizabeth …

• Spy Rock

  Spy Rock is a natural landmark with historical significance. It is located on U.S. 60, the old "James River & Kanawha Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/978, 18 miles east of Hawks Nest and about midway between Charleston and …

• Harley O. Staggers Sr.

  … Monongalia County to Monroe County and included the Eastern Panhandle, making it the largest congressional district east of the Mississippi River. Staggers was born in "Keyser":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1198. As a boy, he worked …

• Battle of Stanaford

  … indicted by a federal grand jury in January 1903. The Battle of Stanaford was a concluding episode in the 1902 New River Coal strike, and a precursor of bloodier events to follow during the "West Virginia Mine Wars":http://www.wvencyclopedia. …

• Blue Jacket

  … 1790, Blue Jacket joined Little Turtle in leading a multi-tribal confederacy to defeat Harmar at the head of the Maumee River. Then in August 1794, Indians suffered a pivotal defeat in the "Battle of Fallen Timbers":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org …

• Bluefield

  … and "East":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1989 rivers along the Virginia border, the site was for 100 years … district began to climb the hill southward toward "East River Mountain":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1990, on …

• State Fair

  … in Meriluco, a cottage constructed in 1928 by the "Meadow River Lumber Company":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1749 of Rainelle. … quot; target="_blank">nomination</a> for Meriluco, the Meadow River Lumber Building._