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• Tourism

  … tourists, who tend to spend more money and stay longer than other travelers. The rich industrial heritage of the timber, coal, and other industries is captured in places such as "Cass Scenic Railroad":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/997, …

• Hydroelectricity

  … used for the production of electricity in West Virginia. Although coal remains by far the most important fuel for electric generation in … producers, but they are much smaller than the huge coal-fired electric plants. For example, "Appalachian Power's& …

• William O. Trevey

  … citizens rich and poor. From barefoot children of miners to coal barons, Trevey and his father preserved the faces of an … to studio portraits, for Trevey also traveled the area photographing coal towns, railroad communities, and mines. Trevey left his Glen …

• Tug Fork

  … state to be settled. Permanent settlement began about 1800, and the region was sparsely populated until the development of the coal industry nearly a century later. The "Hatfields":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/279, whose later " …

• Cabell County

  … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1908 farms, "livestock":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1425, corn, oil wells, and coal and natural gas. Huntington is a principal trading center and shipping port for the coalfields of southern West Virginia …

• Cabin Creek Quilts

  … ;VISTA":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/878 (Volunteers In Service To America), a Poverty War agency. They worked with coal miners’ wives and widows in the Cabin Creek area of "Kanawha County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ …

• Tygart Valley Homesteads

  … and each had from 0.9 to 2.8 acres of land. Their outbuildings included a combination garage, chicken coop, feed room, coal bin, and cellar. Ultimately, 202 houses were built or purchased and incorporated into the project. A general supply building, a …

• Johnson Newlon Camden

  … /articles/1143 in the south and to provide streetcar service in Huntington and neighboring areas. The new rail lines opened up coal mines and timbering in new areas. Historian John Alexander Williams describes Camden as one of the first of West Virginia’s …

• Indian Trails

  … Western Virginia. Many followed the river valleys, including the Paint Creek Trail, the Big Sandy Trail, the Guyandotte Trail, the Coal River Trail, and the Little Kanawha Trail. The Scioto-Monongahela Trail connected Lower Shawnee Town, in Ohio, to the …

• University of Charleston

  … vision into reality. When a substantial gift from "Morris Harvey":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/276, a Fayetteville coal operator, eliminated the early debt, the grateful institution changed its name to Morris Harvey College in 1901 and …

• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

  … assistance. Examples include involvement in recovery operations after the 1967 Silver Bridge collapse at Point Pleasant and the 1972 coal dam failure at Buffalo Creek in Logan County. As the nation’s primary water resource management agency the Corps …

• Vernacular Architecture

  … -a-half or two stories tall, and have either a side gable or end gable and a one-story front porch. By 1910, U.S. Coal & Coke built 12 individual company towns known as the Gary Works in McDowell County, with several different housing types. By the …

• Irish

  … , had two divisions in Wheeling in 1875 and one in Benwood. By 1884, the AOH had groups in Rowlesburg, Clarksburg, Parkersburg, Coal Valley, and Charleston. At its height in 1894, there were 647 men in 12 Hibernian divisions in West Virginia. By the end …

• War on Poverty

  … Appalachia and West Virginia also drew attention. Manpower training programs provided job training for workers, like many in the coal industry, whose jobs had been lost to technological change. The Job Corps offered opportunities for unemployed youth to …

• H. Rus Warne

  … Warne’s most important early commissions were the 123-foot high Coal Column and the West Virginia Building, the state’s … exhibits at the 1907 Jamestown Exposition in Norfolk, Virginia. The coal column has long since disappeared, but the building remains as …

• Booker T. Washington

  … career as a teacher. In 1879, Washington returned to Hampton Institute as a teacher, coming home to West Virginia to work in the coal mines while school was out. In May 1881, Washington left West Virginia. In June 1881, he opened his own educational …

• Ironmaking

  … a coke-fueled blast furnace along the recently completed Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. The furnace used coke made from New River coal and iron ore from Alleghany County, Virginia. Transporting iron ore a great distance was an unusual practice, and it …

• Water

  … is one such lake, as is Cheat Lake in Monongalia County. Mount Storm Lake provides cooling and process water for the coal-fired Mount Storm Power Station, while Cheat Lake provides water for West Penn Power Company’s "hydroelectric":http://www. …

• Wayne County

  … 23,619 in 1900. Blessed with an abundant supply of coal, "natural gas":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1600 … by state legislator Lucian Fry, acquired several thousand acres of coal and timber in southern Wayne County. The Ferguson family …

• Shelley Moore Capito

  … of the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit, signed into law in December 2003. She was one of the founders of the Congressional Coal Caucus. In 2014, Capito won the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat "Jay Rockefeller":http://www.wvencyclopedia. …

• John Jay Jackson Jr.

  Judge John Jay Jackson Jr. (August 4, 1824-September 2, 1907) was born near "Parkersburg":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1811. A year after his graduation from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1845, he was admitted …

• Webster Springs

  … ending a decades-long tourist boom. Webster Springs continued as the center for business activities related to the "coal":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1349 and "timber":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/728 industries …

• Weirton

  … a one-company town, but never a company town in the way many mining towns were in southern West Virginia, where the coal companies owned the entire community. Weirton Steel did own some housing, but those were barrack-like structures for unmarried men in …

• Jefferson County

  … same site in 1922. Defendants included "Bill Blizzard":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/545, who allegedly led coal miners in the armed march culminating in the "Battle of Blair Mountain":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ …

• Jennings Randolph Lake and Dam

  … . It has a control tower with five pairs of intakes located at different depths. Since the acid drainage from abandoned coal mines in the reservoir’s watershed stratifies at different levels, regulating the outflow through the several intakes controls the …