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Clay Center
The Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences in Charleston is one of the few facilities in the country that combines a modern performing arts center with a visual arts museum and an interactive science center.
Private contributions from the "Clay …
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Labor History
… labor organizer "Mary Harris ‘‘Mother’’ Jones":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1053 had sporadic success in the Kanawha Valley. UMWA President John Mitchell came to Charleston in 1907 to launch a major union offensive, only to be defeated …
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Clay County
… traveler to I-79. Modern highway connections have made Charleston more accessible, and many Clay Countians have found employment in the Kanawha Valley.
Clay is one of West Virginia’s poorest counties, with a fourth of its people living in poverty at the …
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Lakes
… on the Ohio River with an additional three each on the Kanawha and Monongahela rivers. These dams, with their movable gates, are … at coal-fired electric plants. A low dam at "Kanawha Falls":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1110 has been …
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Clay Mining
… by the United Clay Products and Continental Clay Products; in Cabell County by the Barboursville Clay Manufacturing Company; in Kanawha County by the West Virginia Brick Company and the Charleston Vitreous Clay Products Company; in Lewis County by the …
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Lebanese and Syrians
The flow of immigrants from modern day Lebanon and Syria to West Virginia began in the 1880s and peaked in the 1920s. They came as refugees from increasingly rigid Ottoman rule, which after centuries of relative acceptance had grown hostile to Arab …
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Riley Wilson
Born at Upper Falls in "Kanawha County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1103, William Edwin ‘‘Riley’’ Wilson (November 10, 1882-October 6, 1952) became West Virginia’s best-known raconteur. He earned a law degree from Washington and Lee …
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Paula Clendenin
Artist Paula Clendenin was born June 22, 1949, in Cedar Grove, Kanawha County. She has earned national acclaim for her paintings, richly colored, textured shapes that merge West Virginia’s mountain landscape with mystical and spiritual symbols.
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Winfield
… . The town was laid out on the banks of the "Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1123 in 1849 and … that section of the riverfront controlled boat traffic on the upper Kanawha. This led to a skirmish that took place in the streets …
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Wirt County
… is centrally located along the "Little Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … .org/articles/1766 in the Little Kanawha Valley in 1800. The first people of … .org/articles/1428 by the Little Kanawha Navigation Company in 1874 enabled the …
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Bob Wise
… He grew up with his parents and two sisters in the Kanawha Valley, where his father worked for 30 years for McDonough … Jr.":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/666 in the Kanawha County Democratic primary. As a political newcomer, Wise displayed a …
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George Connard Wolfe
… 2012), a self-trained sculptor, was born in Standard, "Kanawha County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1103. He … Bluefield High School, and a madonna and child in a Kanawha Valley church. His smaller wooden sculptures are sometimes painted …
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Coal
… the oldest to youngest, these are the Pocahontas, New River, Kanawha, Allegheny, Conemaugh, Monongahela, and Dunkard. They are divided into … upward to high-volatile bituminous in the area of the Kanawha Valley near Charleston. The higher rank of the older …
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Coal & Coke Railway
… connected with the "Western Maryland Railway":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1139 at Elkins and with the Kanawha & Michigan (later the "New York Central":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1646) at Charleston. The …
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Wood County
… and southern sectors by the "Little Kanawha River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … .org/articles/1740 and the Little Kanawha, and the introduction of the steamboat … hill overlooking the point where the Little Kanawha and the Ohio meet.
After the …
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Margaret Workman
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In 1981, "Governor Jay Rockefeller":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/110 appointed Workman to an unexpired term on Kanawha Circuit Court. She was elected to the remainder of that term in 1982, and to a full term two years later. In the …
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Legislature
… ;Anna Johnson Gates":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2086 became the first female member when she won one of Kanawha County’s six House seats in 1920. Republican "Minnie Buckingham Harper":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/259 of …
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Coal Industry
… fuel. Development came first along the Kanawha River near Charleston and the Ohio … ;:http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/168 in Kanawha County beginning in 1797 provided the … its way through the New and Kanawha coalfields and connected Richmond and the …
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Coal River
The Coal River, which joins the Kanawha River at "St. Albans":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/609 and parts of Kanawha, Raleigh, Lincoln, Logan, and Putnam counties. The watershed is roughly 20 …
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Coal River Navigation Company
… river and maintenance of the locks and dams were limited. On September 29, 1861, one of the greatest floods ever in the Kanawha River watershed caused great damage to the structures. The river reached 46.87 feet in Charleston, more than 16 feet above flood …
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WVU Institute of Technology
… the coal boom in surrounding Fayette and Kanawha counties; the lack of high schools in … itself lies on the banks of the Kanawha River. Under President Cyrus H. Martin … and a declining population in Fayette and Kanawha counties were the major causes. Under …
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Joseph A. J. Lightburn
… and was subsequently placed in command of U.S. forces in the Kanawha Valley, with headquarters at Gauley Bridge. In September 1862, Confederate forces won temporary control of the Kanawha Valley and Lightburn’s army was forced out. Later, he …
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Chuck Yeager
… Charleston with a Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star. When he took off from the airport, he flew the jet west down the Kanawha River and under the South Side Bridge during a boat-racing event. Witnessed by the many boaters, audience and news media covering the …
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Cousin Abe Lilly
Attorney General Armistead Abraham ‘‘Cousin Abe’’ Lilly (March 25, 1878-June 21, 1956) was born at Jumping Branch, Summers County, the son of Robert G. and Virginia Lilly. He was raised in Raleigh County, attended "Concord College":http://www. …
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Lincoln County
… by Cabell, Putnam, Wayne, Logan, Boone, and Kanawha counties. The "Guyandotte River": … County was formed from Boone, Cabell, Kanawha, and Putnam counties, and named for … was taken from Boone, Cabell, and Kanawha; and new land was incorporated from …
