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• Salt Industry

  … adaptation and inventiveness. They adapted "coal":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … primary local economic activity of mining coal. The evaporators burned the ‘‘slack’’ or fine coal that otherwise would have been discarded. With minimal …

• Salvation Army

  … throughout the state. Early salvationists rode horses and trains and drove up riverbeds to take the gospel to the small towns and timber and coal camps. By 1906, there were six corps in the state. The number grew to 11 in 1916 and to 18 in 1926. During …

• Scenic Highways

  … to Kenova; the "Highland Scenic Highway":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/373 (43 miles) through the Monongahela National Forest; Coal Heritage Trail (187 miles) through 13 counties, from Beckley via State Route 16 and U.S. 52 at Welch to …

• Nathan B. Scott

  … 1876 the president of Central Glass Company. He later served as an officer in banks in Wheeling and Washington, and invested in coal and timber in Logan and Mingo counties in West Virginia’s southern coalfields. Scott was a founder of the Dollar Savings & …

• Appalachia

  … was sweeping the rest of the country. The arrival of "railroads":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1972, "coal mines":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1349, and "logging":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/728 …

• ‘‘John Hardy’’

  … events from the life of an African-American railroad worker who killed a man over money in a drunken gambling dispute at Shawnee Coal Camp (later called Eckman) near Keystone. Hardy was found guilty by a jury, sentenced, and hanged from a wooden gallows …

• Appalachian Volunteers

  … Virginia began with the 1966 summer project, which involved about 500 college students, more than 150 of whom were assigned to coal camps and rural settlements in southern West Virginia. AV staff, summer volunteers, and members of Volunteers in Service to …

• Aracoma Hotel

  … four-story brick hotel, built in an architectural style known as Richardson Romanesque and trimmed in ornamental stone, fronted on Coal Street with an elaborate arched facade. Inside, there were 94 rooms, most with private shower baths. The Aracoma had …

• Hatfield Family

  … a progressive Democrat, best remembered for imposing the ‘‘Hatfield Settlement’’ which ended the bloody "Paint Creek-Cabin Creek coal strike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1798 of 1912–13. Attempting to abate the feud, Anse Hatfield …

• Mary Lee Settle

  … moved his young family frequently as he followed the boom and bust of what his daughter later referred to as the manic-depressive coal industry. When Mary Lee was 10 years old, the family finally settled down in Charleston where Mary lived until she was 18 …

• Gabriel Arthur

  Frontiersman Gabriel Arthur is believed to have been the first person of European descent to see the "Kanawha Valley":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1103, having visited the area with a band of Tomahitan Indians in 1674. Little is known …

• The Artists’ Excursion

  … was completed from Baltimore to Wheeling in December 1852 and opened to the public the following year. Although revenues from hauling coal and other freight soon followed, the railroad was faced with competition from the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal and an …

• George W. Atkinson

  George Wesley Atkinson (June 29, 1845-April 4, 1925) was the tenth governor of West Virginia. He was born in Charleston. His ancestors from Cumberland County, England, and County Armagh, Ireland, had settled in Virginia by 1750 and on the Ohio River by …

• Aviation

  … . Thirty-five of the 37 people on board were killed. The state has also experienced a hijacking. On June 4, 1971, a former coal miner from Boone County hijacked a plane that had flown out of Charleston and demanded that the plane be flown to Israel. …

• Hatfield-McCoy Trail

  … efforts by the Hatfield-McCoy Trail Coalition, which was formed in 1990. Construction was delayed while organizers negotiated with coal companies and other large landowners to allow access to the hundreds of miles of unpaved logging and mine access roads …

• Harry Hill Bandholtz

  Harry Hill Bandholtz (December 18, 1864-May 7, 1925) was commander of the federal troops that intervened to end the West Virginia "Mine Wars":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1799 in 1921. Bandholtz, who was born in Michigan, graduated …

• Banking

  … www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1353. Banks grew in strength, in part because of the demand for the state’s resources, including coal, and for its chemicals and manufactured goods. Through the late 1940s and early 1950s, West Virginia banks also benefited …

• Baptists

  West Virginia Baptists follow the same basic patterns of beliefs that have distinguished Baptists historically: the Bible as the sole authority for rule and practice; the belief in baptism by immersion for believers; the complete autonomy of each local …

• Barboursville

  … former courthouse. In 1901, "Morris Harvey":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/276, a Fayette County sheriff, businessman, and coal operator, and his wife, Rosa, donated $10,000 to the school. In recognition of this gift, the school’s name …

• Danny Heater

  … and attended Burnsville High School. The Burnsville coach wanted to attract the attention of college scouts to Heater, the son of an unemployed coal miner, so for one game he arranged for the other players to get the ball to Heater as much as possible. In …

• Helvetia

  … . After World War II, "out-migration":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1783 increased, and the timber and coal industries became more important than agriculture. By the 1970s, "tourism":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/750 …

• William Wallace Barron

  … an era of high unemployment caused by mechanization of coal production. But his accomplishments were overshadowed by the fact … Charleston. He traveled to Japan to promote West Virginia coal, shamed utility companies into dropping rate increases, positioned …

• High Gate

  High Gate mansion, located in Fairmont, was built in 1910 for James Edwin Watson, the son of coal pioneer "James Otis Watson":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/921, brother of U.S. Sen. "Clarence Watson":http://www.wvencyclopedia. …

• Hinton

  … . For more than a half-century the town boomed as an important railroad center. In the 1950s, however, "changes in coal mining methods":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1364, the working out of some older mines, the local abandonment of & …

• Shay Locomotives

  … machines for its operations at Curtin on the Cherry River, the largest narrow gauge logging line in the state. On the steep coal mine branches in the New River Gorge, the "Chesapeake & Ohio Railway":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1143 …