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• Norwalk Motor Car

  … manufacture of auto parts and components, including the Toyota engine and transmission plant in Putnam County, NGK Sparkplugs of Kanawha County, a major stamping plant in South Charleston, and other operations. No automobiles have been assembled here in …

• John Nugent

  … both offices simultaneously for two years. He was elected in 1907 for one term to the House of Delegates from Kanawha County. While serving in the legislature, Nugent accepted the post of "immigration commissioner":http://www.wvencyclopedia. …

• Oak Hill

  … Settlement in the area began as early as 1820, and population grew rapidly after the building of the "Giles, Fayette & Kanawha Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2108 by 1848. The turnpike served as the main street of Oak Hill, …

• Ohio River

  … . The principal tributaries in West Virginia are the Little Kanawha, the Kanawha and its tributaries (including the Elk, Gauley, … River, which once continued the course of the present Kanawha River westward across southern West Virginia and Ohio, forcing …

• Meadow River

  … County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2168 by U.S. 60, the historic route of the "James River & Kanawha Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/978, and the river is paralleled for most of its length by a railroad. …

• Clarence Watson Meadows

  … of education funds. Meadows also realized the importance of improving transportation. In November 1947, he dedicated Charleston’s Kanawha Airport (now "Yeager Airport":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1385). ‘‘Today, the very heart of …

• Medicine

  … Pleasant on the Ohio River in the 1790s. Other doctors followed, establishing practices near navigable waterways such as the Kanawha, Ohio, and Monongahela rivers. The advent of railways and better roads contributed to the expansion of medical practice in …

• Old-Time Music

  … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1317 from Braxton County; fiddler Emery Bailey of Calhoun County; Wirt County fiddler Glen Smith; Kanawha County fiddle legend "Clark Kessinger":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1191; and Clay County musicians & …

• One Valley Bank

  See "Kanawha Valley Bank":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1138.

• Methodists

  … 1792, 1793, and 1796. From here Methodism continued to move west into the Kanawha Valley, where the Little Kanawha Circuit was formed in 1799. The early part of the 19th century saw a tremendous increase in …

• Midland Trail

  … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1602. In 1824, a private Virginia company upgraded the route into the "James River & Kanawha Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/978. After 1873, the turnpike fell into disrepair because the " …

• Migration

  … lost people. For example, a cluster of five Little Kanawha Valley counties lost four percent of its population between 1900 … the century. During the 1980s, deindustrialization affected the Ohio and Kanawha valleys, with the result that urban people for the …

• Arnold Miller

  … ;:http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/835. He was born the son and grandson of miners at Leewood on Cabin Creek in "Kanawha County":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1103. He quit school in his mid-teens to become a coal miner. In …

• Milton

  … and Thomas Harmon. The first semblance of a town or village at Milton occurred in relation to the "James River & Kanawha Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/978, which was built in the early 1830s. The Mud River "covered …

• Paint Creek-Cabin Creek Strike

  The Paint Creek-Cabin Creek Strike of 1912–13 was one of the most dramatic and bloody conflicts in the early 20th-century labor struggles in southern West Virginia known as the "Mine Wars":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1799. The strike …

• Painted Trees

  … parallel to the "West Virginia Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1121 for many miles and empties into the Kanawha River at Pratt. Olafson discovered, through examining local land surveys and grants, and from a letter in the Draper …

• Minerals

  … at natural seeps and very shallow wells where the "Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1123 crosses the … amounts were similarly produced below the falls of the Little Kanawha River. It is interesting to note that petroleum was …

• Panther State Forest

  … Company to mine coal beneath the forest. The company's president was then-Speaker of the House Harry Pauley (D-McDowell). The Kanawha County Circuit Court later determined--and, in 1970, the state Supreme Court affirmed--that the lease was invalid but not …

• Parkersburg

  Parkersburg is situated at the confluence of the "Little Kanawha":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1422 and "Ohio" … a charter for Newport, on the north side of the Little Kanawha, and for Monroe, on the south side. Ten years later, …

• Pence Springs

  … became so popular that several boarding houses and hotels operated in addition to the original hotel. About 1900, E. M. Carney of Kanawha County purchased property near that of Pence and erected a rival hotel. Pence filed a lawsuit against Carney in 1904, …

• Penn Central Railroad

  … and points beyond. Another line ran from Charleston into northeastern Kanawha County. Designed to tap local coal mines, this branch was originally part of the Kanawha & West Virginia Railroad. Through a long and complicated history …

• Pinch Reunion

  The Pinch Reunion was established by Judge William W. Wertz and other Elk River residents in 1902. For three days in August the gathering is held at Rockwood Glen, in Pinch, northeast of Charleston. The first reunion was organized as a Fourth of July …

• Pittston Strike

  … vice president of the "United Mine Workers of America":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/835 and a native of Kanawha County, was the central union figure in the strike zone. Tension between striking miners, company guards, and state police …

• Place Names

  … words, as well as fanciful European-American notions about Indians, are the source of names such as Naugatuck, Matoaka, Kanawha, and Pocatalico. Names borrowed from other places are common also and include London, Berea, and New Martinsville. Classical …

• Julius DeGruyter

  … volume. DeGruyter’s first work, _The Kanawha Spectator: History of the Kanawha Valley_ (1953) was followed, in time for the 1963 state … /1038 celebration, by _A Brief History of Kanawha County and the … a second volume of _The Kanawha Spectator_ in 1976. In a …