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• Jones-Imboden Raid

  … fire to oil and the producing wells, oil boats, tanks, and other equipment, sending a sheet of flame floating down the Little Kanawha River. In his report to Gen. Robert E. Lee, Jones perhaps overestimated the amount of oil burned at 150,000 barrels. …

• West Virginia Humanities Council

  Using public and private funds to provide grants and operate programs, the <a href="http://www.wvhumanities.org/" target="_blank">West Virginia Humanities Council</a> is the principal organization promoting the humanities …

• West Virginia Mine Workers Union

  … Mine Workers Union. The UMWA condemned the rival union. In May 1931, the Mine Workers Union began to organize the Kanawha coalfield, and by July 6 a major strike had begun. The Conference for Progressive Labor Action, Brookwood Labor College, the …

• West Virginia National Guard

  … –13 when miners struck for union recognition on "Paint and Cabin creeks":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1798 in Kanawha County. Martial law was declared for the strike zone in 1912, and miners and mine guards were sentenced to prison for …

• Charleston Ballet

  Conceived by Belgium native "Andre Van Damme":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/850, the Charleston Ballet’s 30-member company debuted at the city’s Municipal Auditorium in April 1956. The company was an outgrowth of Van Damme’s American …

• Charleston Daily Mail

  The _Charleston Daily Mail_ traced its origins to the late 19th century. The first newspaper with a similar name appeared in 1893, when F. R. Swann began publishing the _Evening Mail_. The _Evening Mail_ became a morning paper in 1894 after George Warren …

• Charleston Ordnance Center

  The Charleston Ordnance Center, formerly the U.S. Naval Ordnance Plant and now South Charleston Industrial Park, primarily consists of several large buildings and associated shops and rail lines. It is located between U.S. 60 and Interstate 64 in " …

• Charleston Town Center

  … 2021 Hull Property Group, based in Atlanta, announced it had purchased Charleston Town Center. In 2022, the city of Charleston and Kanawha County announced plans to renovate the former Macy's Department Store and one of the parking garages into an $80 …

• West Virginia Symphony Orchestra

  Founded as the Charleston Civic Orchestra with William Wiant as its conductor, the symphony gave its first concert at the Municipal Auditorium on November 14, 1939. When Wiant was drafted into military service in 1942, Antonio Modarelli, conductor of the …

• Cherokees

  … to play a major role in the history of the American south. Although the Cherokee claimed land south of the "Great Kanawha River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1123 in present West Virginia, they did not depend on it for hunting and …

• Weston & Gauley Bridge Turnpike

  … Weston with the "James River & Kanawha Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … to Summersville, and ended on the Kanawha River at Gauley Bridge. There were … south of Weston, and over the Little Kanawha River at Bulltown. The most significant …

• James Kay

  Businessman James Kay (March 20, 1849-April 9, 1934) was born in Lanark, Scotland, and migrated to America in 1869. By 1870, he had arrived in Charleston, doing stone work for the advancing "Chesapeake & Ohio Railway":http://www. …

• Chief Logan State Park

  … Program, early park improvements included creek channelization, development of hiking trails, and the establishment of picnic areas. A Kanawha 2700 Class locomotive was donated to the park by the "C&O Railway":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• William Edwin Chilton

  … appointed to fill an unexpired term as Kanawha County prosecutor in 1883, but was … as a leader of the so-called Kanawha Ring, which fought industrialist and agrarian … in 1905 and expanded the service throughout Kanawha County. In 1907, the Chilton family …

• Frank Keeney

  Unionist Frank Keeney (March 15, 1882-May 22, 1970) was born on Cabin Creek, Kanawha County. He first entered the mines as a boy. He emerged as a rank-and-file leader during the "Paint Creek-Cabin Creek Strike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Circuit Courts

  … over by 75 judges. There are single-county circuits and multi-county circuits, which vary from seven judges in one county (Kanawha) to a single judge covering the Third Circuit of Doddridge, Pleasants, and Ritchie counties. These allocations are made by …

• John E. Kenna

  … a scandalous public shooting at Charleston’s fashionable Kanawha House hotel in June 1856. In … to the bar in 1870. Elected Kanawha County prosecuting attorney in 1872 at … , Kenna built his popularity in the Kanawha Valley by working for improvements to …

• Simon Kenton

  … https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1740 between the "Big Sandy":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/484 and "Kanawha":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1123 rivers. The cane fields of Kentucky were where Kenton made a name …

• Clark Kessinger

  … station began broadcasting in 1927. Clark Kessinger remained in the Kanawha Valley and performed locally for the next 30 years, … . Three new albums of his music were released by Kanawha Records. An energetic and creative musician, Clark Kessinger was …

• Battle of Keslers Cross Lanes

  … and had several men killed and wounded. This Confederate victory temporarily severed the Union army’s lines of communication between the Kanawha Valley and Union headquarters in "Wheeling":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1168.

• Civil War

  … D and G, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery, encountered Confederates from the 22nd Virginia Infantry Regiment recruited in the Kanawha Valley and commanded by Col. George S. Patton of Charleston. Several other Confederate units that fought at New Market …

• Mary Kinnan

  … It is believed that she was taken by her captors to a point near the Buckhannon River, then down the Ohio by way of the Little Kanawha. She was then taken to a village near Fort Wayne on the Maumee River, an Ohio tributary. She was sold several times and …

• Clarksburg Education Convention

  … , placing the burden of school taxation on the counties. The only counties in present West Virginia to adopt this plan were Kanawha, Jefferson, and Ohio. In 1863, one of the first acts passed by the West Virginia legislature established a system of free …

• Kyashuta

  … Nation Chiefs, & the head of them upon this River.’’ Washington’s diary records Kyashuta’s intimate knowledge of the Kanawha Valley, including vegetation, soils, topography, transportation conditions, and distances between significant landmarks.

• Division of Labor

  … region; and, until after the "United Mine Workers":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/835 successfully organized the Kanawha and New River coalfields, had the largest concentration of unionized workers in the state. By 1914, the state’s …