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• John Knowles

  … and _The Private Life of Axie Reed_ (1986). _A Vein of Riches,_ set in and around ‘‘Middleburg,’’ apparently a fictional Fairmont, was Knowles’s notable use of a West Virginia coal country setting for his fiction. John Knowles died in Florida.

• Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway

  … the economic depression of the 1890s and a long strike by coal miners. The railroad entered a financial receivership in the late 1890s, … products in Detroit and Toledo, coupled with the demand for Ohio coal in the east, allowed the W&LE to recover and …

• Wheeling National Heritage Area

  … and architectural assets. It is one of 24 national heritage areas in the United States, including the "National Coal Heritage Area":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1561 in southern West Virginia. The ideas behind the Wheeling National …

• Wheeling Steel

  … 30 miles along the Ohio River, from Benwood, West Virginia, to Steubenville, Ohio. As an integrated operation with its own coal mines, the company lived up to its slogan, ‘‘From Mine to Market.’’ The influence of Wheeling Steel extended beyond its various …

• Albert Blakeslee White

  … U.S. Senate but was unable to gain his party’s nomination. White also was an executive in the insurance, banking, and coal industries. When the capitol building burned in January 1921, White and others organized an unsuccessful campaign to move the West …

• M. T. Whittico

  … County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1631, about 1900, joining a thriving interracial business community in the booming coal town. He purchased a local newspaper and in 1904 renamed it the _McDowell Times_, which he served as editor and …

• Tom Kromer

  … in Huntington to Grace Thornburg and Czech immigrant Albert Kromer, a coal miner and glass worker. The Kromers also lived at times … and others. _Michael Kohler_ draws on firsthand accounts of coal mining, the glass industry, and, like _Waiting for Nothing_, …

• Clay

  … 1880 it was impossible to drive a horse-drawn vehicle to the town from Charleston. Clay was incorporated in 1895. The "Coal & Coke Railway":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1337 reached Clay in 1905. The "June 2016 flood": …

• Herman Guy Kump

  … County, worked briefly as a deputy county clerk, and for more than two years served as a paymaster of the Consolidation Coal Company’s Monongah mine. From 1903 to 1905, Kump attended the University of Virginia law school, then opened a law practice in …

• Williams River

  … traditional music. Two resources in the Williams watershed, timber and coal, were developed. In the post-Civil War period, the … about 1940, to mills at Marlinton and Richwood. "Coal mining":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1349 activity …

• Williamson

  … and the development of the local "coal industry":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … constructed to protect the town. The "Coal House":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … , a downtown landmark built of bituminous coal in 1933, was added to the …

• Willow Island Disaster

  … Corporation, the parent company of Monongahela Power, announced plans to close the Pleasants Power Station, along with two other coal-fired plants in Albright, Preston County, and Rivesville, Marion County. The Willow Island plant was originally scheduled …

• Lakes

  … Storm supply water for steam generation at coal-fired electric plants. A low dam … farm ponds used for agricultural purposes and coal mining impoundments used to hold coal … coal preparation plants. Some of the coal impoundment ponds are several surface acres …

• Emanuel Willis Wilson

  The seventh governor of West Virginia, Emanuel Willis Wilson (August 11, 1844-May 28, 1905) was born at "Harpers Ferry":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/263. His parents were English immigrants James Fitzgerald Wilson and Mariah (Spangler) …

• Clay Mining

  … ; in Lewis County by the Weston Brick and Coal Company and the Jane Lew Brick and Drain … origin, which means it is usually associated with coal and shale. In the early days of clay … County, the three-foot-thick seam of coal on top of the clay was ignored by …

• Land Ownership

  … them from outside the state. In the late 19th century and throughout the 20th century, the largest private landowners were coal, timber, natural gas companies and electric utilities, and railroads. More recently, land ownership has shifted toward resource …

• Laurel Lake

  … Virginia Division of Natural Resources":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1605 on property owned by Island Creek Coal Company, Georgia Pacific Corporation, and the Cotiga Development Corporation, which entered into the original lease to construct …

• Lebanese and Syrians

  … Virginia. As they prospered, Lebanese and Syrian merchant families helped introduce retail competition into regions previously monopolized by coal and timber company stores. By the 1930s, key towns included Lebanese and Syrian-owned clothing, hardware, and …

• Riley Wilson

  … for Congress in 1920, and later served Franklin Roosevelt’s administration as a member of the National Bituminous Coal Administration. Wilson became seriously ill while attending the 1949 inauguration of President Truman and died in 1952. The ‘‘Mattie …

• Wind Power

  … fraction of total electricity generated, less than one percent. "Coal":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1334 remains the … ’s turbines required to replace West Virginia’s largest coal-fired power plant. The environmental community is split …

• Climax Locomotives

  … had been used in West Virginia. Some companies that preferred Climax were Sewell Lumber at Landisburg (five narrow-gauge engines), Elk River Coal & Lumber at Swandale (four, one of which was the last Climax in service in the United States), and Moore- …

• Bob Wise

  … a law practice. As a young lawyer, he represented coal miners in workers compensation cases, created a property tax … ’s administration were mountaintop removal mining practices, permissible weights for coal trucks operating on the state’s highways, and …

• Bill Withers

  … . (July 4, 1938 - March 30, 2020), a popular 20th-century rhythm and blues singer, traced his roots to a West Virginia coal camp. Withers was born into a miner’s family of 13 children in Slab Fork, "Raleigh County":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Women’s Lives

  … s lives. Jobs in railroading, timbering, and coal mining drew men out of agriculture … participated in groups such as the national Coal Employment Project and Women and Employment, … wage jobs in industries such as coal mining. Today, women in West Virginia …

• Carter G. Woodson

  … .org/articles/751 in 1893 after Carter and his brother, Robert, had migrated to West Virginia to work in the coal mines. Working in "Fayette County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2245, Woodson was influenced by association with Oliver …