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• P. D. Strausbaugh

  … in 1892. Strausbaugh and his colleagues spent the summer of 1924 collecting, mounting, and filing the nucleus of a new collection. In 1926, Strausbaugh initiated a summer field course (perhaps the first of its kind) called the botanical expedition. …

• Bollman Truss Bridge

  … during the Civil War, they were repaired and new Bollman spans were added. The new Harpers Ferry bridge was completed in 1868. This magnificent bridge had eight … bridge continued in use until 1894 when new bridges were constructed and some of the …

• Strayer Report

  … .org/articles/1353 concluded, West Virginia educators reported a range of problems, including discontinuation during the war of "New Deal":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2265 school enrichment programs and the fact that more than 50,000 …

• Streams

  … watershed includes such rivers as the Guyandotte, Tug Fork, Greenbrier, New, Gauley, Elk, Coal, Kanawha, Little Kanawha, Cheat, Tygart … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/33 flows south to the New; the "Gauley River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Streetcar Lines

  … 1903, an 11-mile line was built from Sistersville to New Martinsville. The two towns and the intervening Paden City benefited … . It lasted until 1918; the line from Sistersville to New Martinsville until 1925. Another line, with headquarters in Sistersville, …

• Arthur Ingraham Boreman

  … its nominee to be governor of the new state. On May 28, 1863, he … Virginia’s boundaries was loyal to the new state. Fifteen southern and central counties … disenfranchised the many ex- Confederates in the new state, who were overwhelmingly Democrats. Thus …

• David Hunter Strother

  … in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, he studied art in New York City with John Gadsby Chapman … Porte Crayon’’ and published in _Harper’s New Monthly Magazine_ in December 1853, the … Dismal Swamp’’ and ‘‘A Summer in New England.’’ These articles transported readers, …

• Botany

  … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1712, a New River coal operator, who collected nearly … studies of plants found along "New River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org … knowledge of the Ohio, Kanawha, and New River valleys, and southwestern West Virginia …

• Leon Sullivan

  … . After serving under the Reverend Adam Clayton Powell in Harlem, Sullivan began his first pastorate at a church in South Orange, New Jersey. In 1950, he began a 38-year ministry at Zion Baptist Church in Philadelphia. The church became one of the nation’s …

• Summers County

  … , predominantly shales and sandstones. "New River":http://www.wvencyclopedia. … 1760, settlers had returned, but these new settlements were destroyed during " … settlements were established along the New, Greenbrier, and Bluestone. Settlement, and …

• Festus Paul Summers

  … War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1193 and statehood era and late-19th century political and economic developments in the new state. His books include _The Baltimore and Ohio in the Civil War_ and _William L. Wilson and Tariff Reform_. He …

• The Boundary of West Virginia

  … boundary with Virginia, near Harpers Ferry. West Virginia’s long eastern boundary, separating the old state from the new, follows the existing county lines separating 12 West Virginia counties and their Virginia neighbors. This boundary totals about …

• Summersville

  … The high school remained open until a new one was built in 1978. The … Heritage Center. The completion of the "New River Gorge Bridge":https://www … /1121, bringing many Florida-bound Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and Canadians to Summersville motels …

• Bourbon Democrats

  … slaves. West Virginia Bourbons also came to terms with the new industrial character of the nation. However devoted they may have … of Southern values while coupling them with acceptance of the new industrial goals and necessities. After 1871, there came an …

• Tony Boyle

  … for UMWA president in the December 1969 election. After a bitter campaign, Yablonski, his wife, and daughter were murdered on New Year’s Eve 1969. Boyle was defeated by Arnold Miller in 1972. Tony Boyle and three others were convicted and sentenced to …

• Nathan Cook Brackett

  … church’s best service would be to equip Blacks to teach other Blacks, rather than relying only on missionary teachers from New England. The church leaders embraced the idea and raised the necessary funding to establish "Storer College":http://www …

• Sumner School

  … to accept children who could not afford to pay. When the new state of West Virginia assumed the responsibility for schools, the … years was S. E. Colburn, a White minister originally from New York. The school program was eventually expanded to include high …

• J. G. Bradley

  Industrialist Joseph Gardner ‘‘J. G.’’ Bradley (September 12, 1881-March 16, 1971) was born in New Jersey but came to West Virginia in 1904. A descendant of U.S. Sen. Simon Cameron of Pennsylvania, Abraham Lincoln’s first secretary of war, and Justice …

• Sunrise

  … Sunrise Foundation in 1961. The foundation operated the property as a popular museum complex. In 2003, the museum moved to a new, larger exhibition space at the "Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1269 …

• Supreme Court of Appeals

  … >Jewell v. Manard</em>). The court also developed new common law doctrines. In tort claims, the court rejected the … County, who served as a justice for nearly 27 years. New legislation changed the election of Supreme Court justices from a …

• Braxton County

  … Braxton Countians dropped below 14,000 in the 1970 census, following a decline that began in the 1950s. With the coming of new highways and new businesses, Braxton's population rose again to 14,468 in 2012 but had declined to 12,447 by 2020. The county …

• Surface Mining

  … Task Force on Mining led to tough new restrictions in a 1967 law that provided … bench-mining method. In the 1990s, a new form of mining attracted the attention of … intact, began to be leveled through a new process caled "mountaintop removal": …

• Bretz Coke Ovens

  … intermittently, during periods of peak steel production, until 1953, when the Mercury Coal & Coke Company purchased the property. New coal handling equipment was installed, the ovens were refurbished, and the facility was put back into operation. It …

• Bridge Day

  … Commerce. The preeminent attraction is the "New River Gorge Bridge":http://www. … view the spectacular fall colors of the New River Gorge far below. Participants may visit … Parachutists jump from the bridge into the New River Gorge, the only day it …

• Bridges

  … out of service and replaced by a new bridge upstream from the old bridge. … of modern times is the steel arch "New River Gorge bridge":http://www.wvencyclopedia … to build. West Virginia acquired a handsome new bridge with the 2012 completion of …