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• United Carbon Building

  … , commissioned Charleston architect "Walter F. Martens":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1541 to design the company’s new headquarters. Nelson (1879–1953), a Swedish immigrant, had begun as a laborer with the Carbon Black Company in …

• John D. Imboden

  … the Confederate left flank in the advance on Gettysburg and performed with distinction in covering Lee’s retreat. He later served at New Market, Fisher’s Hill, Cedar Creek, and other battles. In the autumn of 1864, he contracted typhoid fever and was …

• Indian Trails

  … Branch continued through southwestern Virginia, to the New River, then along the Kanawha River … route that began in Seneca territory in New York and stretched south through Pennsylvania … Tygart and Greenbrier valleys, to the New River. U.S. 219 parallels the …

• Indian Wars

  … the western edge of European-American settlement, which meant that the fighting shifted from east to west: from the Greenbrier, upper New River, and upper Potomac valleys during the 1750s into the 1770s, to the Monongahela country (which then included the …

• University of Charleston

  … the image and fortunes of the school, new president Thomas Voss restructured programs, dismissed … President Edwin Welch, the university entered a new period of strength and growth. The Clay Tower Building—the first new structure in a quarter century—was …

• University of Hard Knocks

  … subscription to his _West Virginia Hillbilly_ newspaper, where the success stories of the new graduates were printed. New members share their stories with alumni during the annual commencement weekend that takes place about …

• Upshur County

  … 1801 with Zedekiah Morgan, large numbers of New Englanders settled in Upshur County, mostly … By 1830, more than half of these New Englanders had moved farther west, but … filmmaker of Franklin Roosevelt’s "New Deal":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• USS West Virginia

  … November 19, 1921, the second ship to be named for West Virginia. On December 1, 1923, the _West Virginia_ joined the fleet. The new battleship was 624 feet long, 94 feet wide, and had a displacement of 33,590 tons. The main battery was eight 16-inch guns …

• Mary Draper Ingles

  … , including West Virginia’s rugged "New River Gorge":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org … articles/1123 rivers and on through the New River Gorge, scaling rock cliffs, eating … Once home, she continued living on the New River and had several more children. …

• Andre Van Damme

  … of Europe post-war hardships took their toll. Van Damme and his family moved to America in 1947. They first settled in New York City, then were persuaded to move to West Virginia by John and Josephine Hiersoux, Charleston pianists. They told Van Damme a …

• Peter Godwin Van Winkle

  … Godwin Van Winkle (September 7, 1808-April 15, 1872) was born in New York City. On August 4, 1863, Van Winkle was elected as one of the first two U.S. senators from the new state of West Virginia. He is best remembered for having cast the next …

• Cyrus Vance

  … in the navy. Vance became a partner in the New York City law firm of Simpson, Thacher and … and Vietnam, and to investigate police corruption in New York City and the riots following the … as an alternative to the use of force. He died in New York City.

• Jim Vance

  … , was suspected in the 1865 murder of Union veteran Harmon McCoy, one of the feud’s precipitating events. Vance led the 1888 New Year’s Day arson attack on the McCoy family cabin, resulting in the death of Calvin and Alifair McCoy, the grown children of …

• Vandalia Colony

  … . As unrest boiled over into the physical violence of the "American Revolution":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/70, the new colony scheme was lost among larger events. America’s birth was the death knell for Vandalia Colony, its intended …

• Interstate Highway System

  … that rivals the state’s famed "New River Gorge Bridge":http://www.wvencyclopedia … more rugged and inaccessible than that of New River, a 2,179-foot span which … to the Canadian border north of Watertown, New York. Crossing the moderate terrain of & …

• Verizon

  … Virginia received the Federal Communications Commission’s approval to offer long-distance service in West Virginia and other mid-Atlantic and New England states. As a condition of the approval, Verizon had to open its local network to competition. By 2005, …

• Interwoven Mills

  … largest employer in Martinsburg for several decades. It had its start in 1890–91, when entrepreneurs from Philadelphia and New Brunswick, New Jersey, invested the money to build the country’s first electric-powered mill. The company went through a number …

• Vernacular Architecture

  … areas of building tradition in existence in America by 1790: New England, the Middle Atlantic, and the Lower Chesapeake, including … (German) Protestants to the South Branch Valley from northern New Jersey. Isaac Van Meter settled in the northern portion …

• Vienna

  … org/articles/70 battle in which Spencer participated in Vienna, New Jersey. In 1795, the Virginia General Assembly incorporated 100 … Vienna remained mostly farms until the early 20th century. Then new means of transportation such as the Ohio River Railroad …

• Irish

  … in Greenbrier County and elsewhere attest to an Irish presence. The American Ancient Order of Hibernians, an Irish fraternal order founded in New York City in 1863, had two divisions in Wheeling in 1875 and one in Benwood. By 1884, the AOH had groups …

• Irish Mountain

  Irish Mountain, located above the New River in "Raleigh County":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … of land, including Irish Mountain, had been added to the "New River Gorge National Park and Preserve":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org …

• The Virginia

  … his later years, told that the _Virginia_ was his favorite of the three. It was built in Cincinnati in 1895 and came out new on New Year’s Day of 1896. The _Virginia_ was probably best known for going aground on a falling "Ohio River":http:// …

• Virginia Debt Question

  … the question arose as to the new state's responsibility to help … that now made up in the new state. The repayment obligation was … Berkeley and Jefferson counties in the new state. After Virginia sued to … order to fund much needed new public works in the state …

• Virginia v. West Virginia

  … referendum on whether to form a new state out of the northwest … counties chose to join the new state. If they did, then … to the "formation of the new state":https://www.wvencyclopedia … . The approval law described the new state as embracing 48 named …

• Virginia’s Chapel

  … made on site, the original building was nearly square, with three narrow Gothic windows on each side. A few years later, new construction lengthened the chapel, adding a fourth window on each side and an octagonal cupola atop the entrance. In its early …