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• Jews

  … arrival coincided with the explosive growth of West Virginia’s coal industry, and some Jewish immigrants in Baltimore and New York … as Charleston and had also established Jewish communities in developing coal and steel towns such as Beckley, Logan, Welch, …

• Johnnie Johnson

  … "Fairmont":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2231. He began playing the piano at the age of five. The son of a coal miner, Johnson grew up listening to ‘‘hillbilly’’ and big band music. He left West Virginia in 1941, during "World War …

• Cedar Creek State Park

  … in 1910, Pine Run School was moved to the park from neighboring Lewis County in 1989. Inside are a pot-bellied stove and a bucket of coal in the center of the room, 30 desks, a blackboard, a paddle, filled bookcases, a teacher’s desk, a water jug with one …

• West Virginia Baptist State Convention

  … Baptist State Convention. Fire destroyed the building in 1908, and after two years the school closed. The Jones brothers of Red Star Coal & Coke Company donated 50 acres to the seminary in 1914, largely due to the influence of Henry Jared Carter, the …

• West Virginia Central & Pittsburg Railway

  … under the name of the Potomac & Piedmont Coal & Railroad Company. The WVC&P … ran to Huttonsville, Belington, and Bemis. The Coal & Iron Railroad extending from Elkins to Durbin and the Coal & Coke Railroad from Elkins to Charleston …

• West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey

  … , the survey began more extensive studies of the state’s coal, oil, and gas reserves, and groundwater. This information was used … projects included a comprehensive study of the state’s 117 coal seams, research on acid mine drainage, transfer of agency data …

• Mother Jones

  … Jones vigorously opposed child labor. She spoke in West Virginia and elsewhere against the employment of young boys in and around the coal mines, and in 1903 she led a protest march of mine and mill children to President Theodore Roosevelt's summer home at …

• West Virginia Highlands Conservancy

  The West Virginia Highlands Conservancy is an activist environmental group which works to preserve forests, fragile ecosystems, and waters in the state. In several campaigns, the 1,500-member organization has helped to protect some of the state’s most …

• Jones-Imboden Raid

  … of oil burned at 150,000 barrels. Imboden, later associated with his brother, George, in the development of West Virginia coal mining, said in his report that the raiders covered 700 miles, fought two battles and several skirmishes, and captured nearly …

• West Virginia National Guard

  … . The most prolonged service took place in 1902, when a national coal strike brought miners out in the New River Gorge, and … natural disasters caused by periodic flooding and to victims of the coal refuse dam break on "Buffalo Creek":http://www. …

• West Virginia Review

  … were a mainstay of the publication; under Conley’s editorship, the magazine printed numerous stories on the banking and coal industries, for example. The magazine also featured education and the state’s scenic beauty. Articles about women appeared …

• CAMC (Vandalia Health)

  … Hospital":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/385, was opened at Hansford by the Episcopal Diocese in 1888. The economics of coal production in southern West Virginia changed radically with the defeat of the miners union in the Mine Wars and a …

• Charleston Daily Mail

  … , and a year later he moved the _Mail_ to afternoon publication. It appeared consistently until 1910, when it was sold to coal operator Samuel Dixon of Fayette County. The paper was eventually combined with another and called the _News Mail_. In April …

• Kanawha County Textbook Controversy

  … was down 20 percent at the opening of school on September 3. Picketing at schools quickly spread to businesses, industrial plants, and coal mines, with 3,500 miners staging a wildcat sympathy strike. On September 6, the Board of Education was granted an …

• Cheat River

  … Railroad":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/336 had replaced waterways as the main means of transportation through the region. Coal and timber were extracted from the watershed, polluting the river and setting the stage for record flooding. A …

• Chemical Industry

  … attracted to the Kanawha Valley by the presence of salt brine, coal, oil, and gas; rail and water transportation; and skilled people … .org/articles/1985 plant at Belle, to make ammonia from coal using high-pressure synthesis. In 1927, the plant also began …

• Cherokees

  … North Carolina reservation during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Other southerners, white and black, migrated north to West Virginia lumber and coal camps during this period, and it is possible that Cherokee migrants chose the same paths.

• West Virginia University

  … Virginia University also is home to the National Resource Center for Coal and Energy, founded in 1978. The center focuses on … research; the university has one of the largest simulated underground coal mines in the world to facilitate training in mine rescue …

• Kanawha Valley Bank

  … was a statement of confidence to the business community and to the swarm of speculators coming to West Virginia with the boom in timber, coal, and oil and gas. In 1894, John L. Dickinson became cashier of the bank, a position he retained until he was …

• Western Maryland Railway

  … Virginia legislature for the Potomac & Piedmont Coal & Railroad Company. Davis was president, … the West Virginia Central for its coal revenues. George Gould pledged to extend … and transformed the railroad from a coal hauler to a major fast-freight …

• Chesapeake & Ohio Railway

  … ; Ohio Railway. Financial conditions gradually improved as coal mines were opened along the route. A … in an effort to control rates for shipping coal. To further this end, the C&O purchased some of the small coal-hauling railroads in West Virginia that …

• Billy Edd Wheeler

  … Mister Black,’’ ‘‘Coward of the County,’’ and the humorous classic ‘‘Ode to the Little Brown Shack Out Back.’’ His 1963 ‘‘Coal Tattoo,’’ recorded by Wheeler and others, is a powerful evocation of life in the coalfields during the time of "mine …

• Wheeling

  … https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1907, "textiles":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/706, breweries, and "coal":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1349 flourished as major industries. A strong "labor":https:// …

• Elsie Clapp

  … native-born whites who had been relocated from the "Scotts Run":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/204 coal camps in neighboring Monongalia County—could use their own experiences and rural heritage to better their lives. Under Clapp, the …

• Kingwood

  … volunteer fire department, library, civic groups, two radio stations, several churches, and various businesses. Once a coal and timber town, Kingwood’s current largest private industry is the Matthews International Corporation (formerly Sheidow Bronze …