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• Arnout ‘‘Sonny’’ Hyde Jr.

  … private contract, he resumed editorship of the magazine. Hyde published five books: _West Virginia; A Portrait of West Virginia_; _New River—A Photographic Essay_; _The Potomac—A Nation’s River_, with text by Ken Sullivan; and _West Virginia: The Land …

• Hydroelectricity

  … on the Summersville Dam on "Gauley River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … the 42-megawatt facility on the Ohio River at Belleville, which began producing … producers, including projects on the Ohio River at New Martinsville and Belleville, …

• Ice Mountain

  Ice Mountain, along the North River near North River Mills, "Hampshire County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/152, has an extensive area of boulders and rock debris within which water freezes in the winter. The protective layer of rocks …

• Trees

  … common of these species are box elder and silver maple. Other common trees include green ash, slippery elm, black willow, river birch, sycamore, and honey locust. Coniferous species in West Virginia include eastern white pine, which played a major role …

• William O. Trevey

  … an extensive visual record of the boom years of the New River coalfields. From about 1898 until the late 1920s, Trevey and his … Jean. Trevey operated his studio at a time when the New River coalfields were among the most prosperous in the United States. …

• Tri-State Airport

  … time since 1945, when American Airlines discontinued serving the Chesapeake Airport, a small field located just across the Ohio River from Huntington. Tri-State Airport’s construction came after 30 years of effort by Huntington political and civic leaders. …

• The Trough

  … .org/articles/514 of the "Potomac River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1904 runs between Sawmill Ridge and River Ridge, northeast of Moorefield on the … above 7 or 8 miles and ye River down between them.’’ Washington, visiting as …

• Trout Pond

  … in "Hardy County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/238 13 miles southwest of Wardensville and six miles east of Lost River. It is part of the Trout Pond Recreation Area in the "George Washington National Forest":http://www. …

• Tu-Endie-Wei

  … ;Ohio":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1740 and "Great Kanawha":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1123 rivers at "Point Pleasant":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1888, although it is uncertain whether the term …

• Tucker County

  … the juncture of "Shavers Fork":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/293 and Black Fork, at the head of "Cheat River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1122. The town was incorporated in 1893. It was named for Ward Parsons, the …

• William H. Cabell

  … was formed. William Cabell later came to own more than 4,400 acres of land in the county, at Greenbottom, on the Ohio River north of present Huntington, including eight miles of riverfront. He bought the land about 1819 at a trustee’s sale in Richmond, …

• Cabin Creek Quilts

  … . Cabin Creek Quilts was first located in Chelyan, at the mouth of Cabin Creek. The cooperative moved across the Kanawha River to the village of "Malden":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1479 in 1991 and restored two 19th-century houses …

• Cable-Stayed Bridges

  … to the bridge deck, radiating outward in a dramatic fan configuration. There are two elegant cable-stayed bridges on the Ohio River in West Virginia, one at "Huntington":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/751 and another at "Weirton" …

• Turnpikes

  … transportation plan featuring turnpikes, canals, and river improvements. After Congress failed to adopt … in 1818, while the "James River & Kanawha Turnpike":http://www … the mouth of the Big Sandy River. Completed in 1838 between Winchester and …

• Tygart Dam and Lake

  … periodic flooding of the "Monongahela River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles … shut down navigation on the Monongahela River. When construction began, Tygart Dam’s … of drought. Authorized by the 1935 Rivers and Harbors Act, Tygart Dam was …

• Cacapon State Park

  … strip of land stretching from just south of the "Potomac River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1904, which is the … ’s name, taken from the mountain and nearby "Cacapon River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/806, is said to …

• Calvin W. Price State Forest

  … forests. Covering 10,800 acres on the east side of the Greenbrier River, the forest is named in honor of one of Pocahontas County’s … .org/articles/916. The southern tract was purchased by the New River Company and sold to the state in 1953. It was dedicated …

• Camden Park

  … 612 eventually gave way to a modern four-lane highway, U.S. 60, that goes past the park entrance. The "1937 Ohio River flood":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2372 and then World War II caused major setbacks. In 1946, Camden Park was sold …

• Camp Carlile

  … centers opened in Wheeling, causing great numbers to travel to the city to join the Union Army. The "Ohio River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1740, the "National Road":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1591, and the & …

• Union Carbide Corporation

  … chemical units covered the company acreage on the South Charleston mainland and most of the 80-acre Blaine Island in the nearby Kanawha River. Starting in the early 1930s, Union Carbide built similar plants at other locations in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, …

• Camp Dawson

  … a training base for the Guard. Camp Dawson came into being in 1909 when almost 200 acres were acquired along the Cheat River, just south of "Kingwood":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1207 in Preston County. The camp fell into disuse from …

• Unitarian Universalism

  … , with its church building on the Ohio side of the river since 1989. The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of "Morgantown& … present church was dedicated in 1963. In Beckley, the New River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship was established in 1961 as a …

• United Brethren

  … Brethren Church. At the time of the merger United Brethren churches existed primarily in two areas of West Virginia: the Ohio River counties of Cabell, Mason, Jackson, Wood, Pleasants, and Tyler, and the interior counties of Gilmer, Lewis, Upshur, Barbour …

• Ices Ferry Ironworks

  … and an important nail production center until its closing in the late 1850s. Located on the east side of the Cheat River at Ices Ferry in Monongalia County, the ironworks was established by Samuel Jackson about 1809 for the manufacture of hand-wrought …

• Indian Mound Cemetery

  … , on the north side of U.S. 50. It is on the east side of the South Branch Potomac, on a high terrace overlooking the river. The cemetery, which covers at least two acres of ground, was started shortly before the Civil War. It is named for a large Indian …