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• Thurmond

  … .org/articles/1143 deep in the New River Gorge. Thurmond meant excitement, danger, … main railroad from the burgeoning New River coalfield. Thanks to coal, Thurmond became … city limits, mostly across the New River in the ‘‘Ballyhack’’ neighborhood. Captain …

• W. D. Thurmond

  … with his father’s family. He was a pioneer New River coal operator and founded one of the most notorious boom … to survey land on the north side of New River in the heart of New River Gorge. He accepted 73 acres as his pay, and in following years he built …

• Thurmond’s Rangers

  … 1864, Capt. Philip Thurmond was killed in action at Winfield, Putnam County. A postwar surveyor, coal operator, and land agent, Capt. William D. Thurmond founded the New River Gorge town of Thurmond in the 1880s. He died at age 89 on May 14, 1910.

• Burning Springs

  … the eastern side of the "Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1123 … miles above the mouth of "Elk River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2185 … springs, one near the edge of the river and the other two a few hundred …

• Burning Springs Oil Field

  … .org/articles/1321 on the Little Kanawha River upstream from Elizabeth. The community’s name … collected oil from the surface of the river and sold it as an elixir known as … noting that it turned the Little Kanawha River into a ‘‘sheet of fire.’’ Production …

• Burning Springs Raid

  … pumping, engine houses, wagons, and oil-laden boats. The boats exploded, sending burning oil down the "Little Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1422 until the stream became a sheet of flame with massive clouds of dense, jet- …

• Burnsville

  … confluence of the "Little Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … because of the readily available "river transport":http://www.wvencyclopedia. … Paddlewheel riverboats traveled the Little Kanawha River to Burnsville until 1931. At …

• Burnsville Dam

  … Dam is located on the "Little Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1422 about … .org/articles/730, and 124 miles above the river’s confluence with the Ohio River at Parkersburg. The earthen and concrete dam is 90 feet high and 1, …

• Burr Conspiracy

  … ’ anger at being denied navigational access to the Mississippi River and by the frustrations of an ambitious politician. Col. … /538, a wealthy Irish expatriate living on an Ohio River island near present "Parkersburg":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org …

• Bushwhackers

  … in Monroe County. The company served throughout the war, occasionally attaching itself to larger Confederate units for service in the New River Gorge and in the Greenbrier Valley. On the other hand, Anderson Hatfield’s "‘‘Wildcats’’":http://www. …

• Tolsia Highway

  … people and community leaders who successfully lobbied in the 1950s and 1960s to have a new roadway constructed along the Big Sandy River. Once the new road was built, the U.S. 52 designation which previously had applied to the road connecting Huntington …

• Joseph Tomlinson

  … Cumberland, Maryland. In 1770, Tomlinson moved to the Ohio River in Western Virginia, then the far frontier. He … org/articles/1426) and opposite the mouth of the Muskingum River (present "Williamstown":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1279 …

• Tomlinson Run State Park

  … /articles/744 family. The park’s 1,398 acres are forested and hilly, with a lake and a gorge down to the nearby Ohio River. The gorge has sandstone cliffs, steep hills, and a trail paralleling Tomlinson Run. The park’s waterways are stocked with trout in …

• Topography

  … in Pendleton County. Most of the state’s rivers begin among these high mountains. The … tip of the Eastern Panhandle, where the Potomac River leaves West Virginia. To the west, … part of the state, where the Ohio River passes on to Kentucky and westward. …

• Tories

  … militia, led by Gen. Daniel Morgan, on Lost River, in what is now "Hardy County" … small streams that flow into the Dry Fork River and are now identified as Big Tory … Creek, which flows into the Dry Fork River, was named for Uriah Gandy. Gandy later …

• Tourism

  … .org/articles/2014, the "New River Gorge National Park and Preserve": … , on the New, Gauley, Cheat, and other rivers, and an extensive network of " … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1903, New River-Greenbrier Valley, Hatfield-McCoy Mountains, …

• Huntington

  Located on the "Ohio River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1740 … from the mouth of the "Guyandotte River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2372. The river crested at a record 69.45 …

• Collis P. Huntington

  … about extending its tracks from Richmond across southern West Virginia to the Ohio River. There, in 1871, at a site just downstream from the mouth of the Guyandotte River, he established a new city bearing his name. Remembered as one …

• Tray Run Viaduct

  … by the "Baltimore & Ohio Railroad":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/336 to permit passage across the Cheat River. Building the viaduct and the tunnels and bridges on this section of railroad was a monumental undertaking given the …

• Treaty of Camp Charlotte

  … treaty’s other terms, the "Ohio River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … agreed to stop attacking travelers on the river. The treaty secured a temporary peace … force at Camp Charlotte, on the Scioto River south of present Columbus. It was …

• Treaty of Greenville

  … , Shawnees, Ottawas, Miamis, and others. The negotiations took place at Fort Greenville on the southwestern branch of the Miami River where Greenville, Ohio, is now located. The treaty brought to an end a series of hostilities along the Ohio Valley …

• Treaty of Hard Labor

  … for British North America, along a line extending in part from present Wytheville, Virginia, to the mouth of the Kanawha River at "Point Pleasant":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1888. The only part of West Virginia not under British …

• Treaty of Lancaster

  … a deed for all of the land west of Virginia to the Mississippi River and north to the Great Lakes. This included all of … had sold land only in Virginia south of the "Potomac River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1904 and between the Blue …

• Treaty of Lochaber

  … cession extended the western border of British North America to the Kentucky River in eastern Kentucky and the Holston River in eastern Tennessee. Included in this cession was most of the region of present West …

• Treaty of Paris

  … all French territories on the North American continent to other powers. France gave Canada and all lands east of the Mississippi River to Great Britain, and gave Louisiana to Spain. Spain in turn gave Florida to Britain, which was left in uncontested …