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• National Coal Heritage Area

  … West Virginia legislature established an independent National Coal Heritage Area Authority to manage the heritage area. With the addition of Lincoln County and the Paint Creek-Cabin Creek area of Kanawha County, the area now includes 13 counties.

• Mason County

  … on January 2, 1804, from part of Kanawha County. There is uncertainty over the naming … boundary of Mason County, and the "Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … .org/articles/167 party descended the Kanawha River and reached the Ohio on May …

• National Historic Landmarks

  … Mary Harris ‘‘Mother’’ Jones":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1053, the union organizer, was held in the "Kanawha County":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1103 town of Pratt was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1992 …

• Contentment

  … springs resorts. The resemblance is not coincidental. Built about 1830, the house stood close to the "James River & Kanawha Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/978 (now U.S. 60), which also passed by "White Sulphur Springs& …

• Roy Bird Cook

  … Virginia Review_":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1082 and other publications. Cook served as a trustee of the Kanawha County Public Library and received the Award of Merit from the West Virginia Library Association in 1957. Cook collected …

• Kathy Mattea

  … 40 songs to her credit. Mattea was born on June 21, 1959, in "South Charleston":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/518, Kanawha County, and she grew up in nearby Cross Lanes. In junior high school she learned to play the guitar, and in high …

• Jack Maurice

  … of editorials he wrote the year before amid a battle over "textbooks":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1105 in Kanawha County. Jack Maurice died in Charleston. His daughter, Johanna Maurice, was the editorial page editor of the _Daily Mail_ …

• Samuel Cooper

  Rabbi Samuel Cooper (November 14, 1908-January 2, 2006) was born in Toronto, Canada. He came to Charleston in 1932 to lead the High Holiday services for the B’nai Jacob Congregation. A recent graduate of Yeshiva University seminary in New York City, the …

• Natural Gas and Petroleum

  … commenced drilling operations in the Little Kanawha basin. Among them were Charles H … major oil field in the Little Kanawha basin. Named "Volcano":http … also were located in Doddridge, Harrison, Kanawha, Lincoln, Marion, Marshall, Monongalia, and …

• Natural Resources

  … was being produced from springs and wells in the upper Kanawha Valley by the early 19th century. This salt brine … lakes, all affecting West Virginia’s water resources. The Ohio, Kanawha, and Monongahela rivers were transformed from free-flowing streams to …

• Kyle McCormick

  … and served in that capacity until 1961. McCormick authored two histories, _The Story of Mercer County_ (1957) and _The New Kanawha River_ and the _Mine War of West Virginia_ (1959). He served on the West Virginia Library Commission and was president of …

• Needham and Arthur Expedition

  … Lawrence County, Kentucky, or Wayne County, West Virginia, and is believed to have been the first white person to see the Kanawha Valley. In a remarkable feat of survival and an epic journey, Gabriel Arthur finally returned to Wood’s house at Fort Henry …

• Counties

  … 040 square miles, and "Hancock":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/213 the smallest, at 88.2 square miles. "Kanawha County":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1103 has the most people, with 180,745 residents in 2020, and " …

• Bernard P. McDonough

  … coalesced and grew in the 1950s and later. He turned from the founding of companies to acquisitions, with key early purchases being Kanawha Sand & Gravel (1948) and the O. Ames Company (1955), a Parkersburg tool manufacturer where he had worked as a …

• Country Doctors

  … ;Malden":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1479. He was said to have been the third ‘‘regularly educated physician’’ in the Kanawha Valley, having a degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. His son, Dr. James Putney, was born in …

• Uncle Jack McElwain

  … repertoire. He is said to have played in the ‘‘old West Fork style.’’ This refers to the West Fork of the Little Kanawha, where the McElwain family lived before coming to Webster County in the 19th century. A former neighbor and old-time fiddler recalled …

• New River

  … Virginia. There it joins with the "Gauley River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2096 to form the "Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1123 at Gauley Bridge. At the West Virginia border the tail waters of & …

• New York Central

  … Central System in West Virginia was the Kanawha & Michigan, originally known as the … known as Conrail, in 1976. The old Kanawha & Michigan became part of Conrail. … Norfolk Southern. In 2016, the newly formed Kanawha River Railroad leased the former K& …

• County Poor Farms

  … , and county farms designed to care for a few became crowded with many victims of the hard times. At the "Kanawha County":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1103 farm, for example, nearly 300 adults and children crowded into a building built …

• Bill McKell

  … .org/articles/876, at Pax. Completed in 1913, this 15-mile railway was a short line with a long name—Kanawha, Glen Jean, & Eastern. A lifelong bachelor, Bill McKell took an active interest in sports and Fayette County Republican politics. He developed …

• J. Kemp McLaughlin

  … appointed assistant adjutant general with promotion to brigadier general. Retired in 1977 from the military, he served as a Kanawha County commissioner from 1962 to 1968. In January 2014, the Charleston Air National Guard base was renamed McLaughlin …

• Covered Bridges

  … and Barrackville. Moore supervised the major crossings of the Gauley and Greenbrier rivers along the James River & Kanawha Turnpike. The craftsmanship displayed in the construction of these spans is represented in the painstaking mortising, fitting, …

• Crafts Movement

  West Virginia’s handicrafts revival originated in the late 1950s and early 1960s, due to a fortunate confluence of native skills, government attention, and the state’s "centennial":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1038 celebration. Among …

• Nicholas County

  … was created by the Virginia legislature from parts of Greenbrier, Kanawha, and Randolph counties on January 30, 1818. Located in … 971, prompting the Confederates to retreat and keeping the strategic Kanawha Valley under Union control for the early part of …

• Dan Cunningham

  … detective in Charleston, as a special police officer for the Kanawha & Michigan Railroad, and as a deputy game warden for … , Fish and Forestry Commission. He was a member of the Kanawha County Board of Examiners for teachers for eight years. Cunningham …