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• Bluefield State University

  … Strong Past, Dynamic Future.’’ Community college functions were separated from Bluefield State upon the creation of "New River Community and Technical College":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1638 in 2004. Headcount enrollment in fall 2015 …

• State Parks

  … ;Babcock":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/321, "Lost River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1457, "Watoga … park system, as well. They are the "Greenbrier River Trail":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/34 and …

• State Seal

  … Run Viaduct, as an engineering feat of the time, and a train about to pass over the viaduct. A factory, fronted by a river with boats, a derrick and a shed, and a meadow with sheep and cattle grazing indicate the leading characteristics and products of the …

• E. M. Statler

  … Hotels chain. He was born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. A few years later, his family moved to Bridgeport, Ohio, across the Ohio River from Wheeling. As a teenager, Statler began to work as a night-time bellboy at Wheeling’s leading hotel, the " …

• Bluestone State Park

  … West Virginia park system in 1955. Named for the "Bluestone River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/577, the park is … 575, created by the Bluestone Dam, which impounds the New River and the Bluestone. Bluestone State Park has a recreation …

• Statuary

  … statue, ‘‘Lincoln Walks At Midnight’’ by Fred Martin Torrey, is located at the front of the capitol overlooking the Kanawha River. A Union infantryman marches to the west of Lincoln, in the place opposite Jackson. World War I soldiers are also well …

• Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike

  … at the mouth of the Little Kanawha River. The preliminary survey was made in … completed to Beverly on the Tygart Valley River by 1843. With additional borrowing authorized … over the Tygart, West Fork and Hughes rivers and their tributaries delayed full use …

• James McNeil Stephenson

  … /articles/584, the Northwestern Virginia Turnpike, the "James River & Kanawha Canal":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … efforts in behalf of turnpike and railroad development and river navigation improvements. Stephenson died at his home in …

• Stonewall Jackson Lake

  Stonewall Jackson Lake lies on the West Fork River in "Lewis County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1362 just off Interstate 79 near Weston. The lake and adjoining state park and wildlife management area have become a major recreational …

• Strange Creek Legend

  In 1795, a young greenhorn surveyor’s cook, William Strange, became lost from his party in the forests near the mouth of Holly River. Hearing gunfire and fearful of Indian raiders, he ran. He and his dog scrambled for days across 40 miles of inhospitable …

• Bollman Truss Bridge

  … & Potomac Railroad to a junction in mid-river with the B&O. In 1862, … lengths with the W&P junction in the river and a sharp curve onto the West Virginia … highway use. On March 19, 1936, the Potomac River at Harpers Ferry crested at a record 36. …

• Stream Life

  … cedar waxwings catch insects flying above rivers; belted kingfishers plunge from overhanging … understory; and sycamore, silver maple, and river birch in the canopy. Such … streams draining westward, in the Ohio River watershed. Among reptiles, northern water …

• Daniel Boone

  … the North Fork of the Yadkin River. He served as a teamster … along the "Big Sandy River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … mouth of the "Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … died in the Femme Osage River Valley in Missouri and was …

• Streetcar Lines

  … Electric cars began to be used in 1887. Mergers produced the Wheeling Traction Company, with operations on both sides of the Ohio River. In 1933, employees bought the company and renamed it Co-operative Transit Company. It operated until 1947. In " …

• Arthur Ingraham Boreman

  … to the private practice of law in his hometown. In 1884, he organized a relief effort to assist the victims of a devastating Ohio River flood. In 1888, he was once again elected to a circuit judgeship, a post he would hold until his death. His funeral was …

• Botany

  … ;:http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/837, rivers, and mountaintops from the mid-1700s … of plants found along "New River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … of the Ohio, Kanawha, and New River valleys, and southwestern West Virginia. …

• Alexander Robinson Boteler

  … ":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2280. He was a farmer and a businessman, owning a hydraulic cement plant on the Potomac River near Pack Horse Ford (also known as Boteler's Ford) at Shepherdstown. Boteler was elected to the U.S. House of …

• Bounty Lands

  … ’s extensive western lands between the Alleghenies and the Mississippi River, included in the colonial charter of 1609, as an … https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2344 on the Ohio and Kanawha rivers in present West Virginia. One Kanawha tract was a few …

• Summersville

  … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/631 and nearby "Gauley River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2096 National … amp; Heritage Center. The completion of the "New River Gorge Bridge":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1639 …

• Summersville Lake State Park

  Summersville Lake, located on the "Gauley River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2096 in Nicholas … have spawned a multimillion dollar whitewater industry on the Gauley River downstream. With its large summer size and scenic sandstone …

• Braddock’s Road

  … terrain on the entire route in present West Virginia, as they traveled from Fort Enoch near Forks of Cacapon to the Potomac River ford at Fort Cox, about two miles west of "Paw Paw":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1822. The soldiers …

• J. G. Bradley

  … .org/articles/700. He soon became president of the Elk River Coal & Lumber Company, which had been buying land in … County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1277 land, the Elk River Company was so significant to Clay County’s economy that the …

• Sunrise

  Sunrise mansion is one of the most recognizable landmarks in Charleston. The Georgian structure overlooking the Kanawha River and downtown Charleston was built in 1905 by West Virginia’s ninth governor, "William A. MacCorkle":http://www. …

• Bramwell

  … .org/articles/1877), the land-leasing firm that established the town as its headquarters on a bend of the "Bluestone River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/577 in 1885. Bramwell quickly became a business center for the "Pocahontas …

• Brick Industry

  … to ship bricks down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and upstream to Pittsburgh and points east. … located on a bend in the Ohio River that became known by rivermen as the … million bricks were shipped via the Ohio River. After a railroad line was built through …