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• Demography

  … local exceptions in the major river valleys, including the Greenbrier, Kanawha, and Ohio valleys, and in the Eastern Panhandle. Extensive … quot;saltworks":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/168 of Kanawha County. After the Civil War, the "coal …

• Pocatalico River

  The Pocatalico River, a tributary of the "Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1123, has … Pocatalico River passes in a southwestward direction through Roane, Kanawha, and Putnam counties. Its watershed includes the southern corner …

• Point Pleasant

  Point Pleasant is located at the confluence of the "Ohio":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1740 and "Kanawha":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1123 rivers. "Pierre-Joseph Celoron de Blainville":https://www. …

• Battle of Point Pleasant

  … gathered at Camp Union (present Lewisburg) and journeyed down the Kanawha River to its mouth at Point Pleasant, arriving on October … 900 warriors crossed the Ohio River above the mouth of the Kanawha, hoping to attack before the soldiers awoke. However, two …

• Diamond Department Store

  Built in 1927 on the site where the old "state capitol had burned":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/947 in 1921, Charleston’s grand Diamond department store was among West Virginia’s flagship retail establishments. Designed by architect …

• Population

  … have always differed significantly in various counties. In 1900, "Kanawha County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1103, with … risen dramatically. The largest county in 2020 was again Kanawha County, with 180,745 residents, compared to " …

• Port Amherst

  … on the north bank of the "Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … one of the oldest communities in the Kanawha Valley. "Mary Draper Ingles" … the Ohio, Mississippi, Monongahela, Allegheny, and Kanawha rivers and provides a variety of …

• Prehistoric People

  … Island and sites along the Ohio and Kanawha rivers. The Terminal Paleo-Indian period … mounds were constructed along the Ohio and Kanawha rivers. The largest "Adena" … of the state along the Ohio, Kanawha, New, Bluestone, and Guyandotte rivers. …

• Presbyterians

  … www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2168, "Kanawha":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … of the salt industry in the Kanawha Valley. Henry Ruffner became the … First Presbyterian Church (Southern) and the Kanawha Presbyterian Church (Northern). With the …

• Samuel Price

  … .org/articles/1550, Price was one of four delegates who represented the district of Greenbrier, Pocahontas, Fayette, Raleigh, Nicholas, and Kanawha counties. When he returned to Greenbrier County, his constituents voted to send him back to the House of …

• Charlotte Pritt

  … received a B.A. and M.A. from Marshall University. She was a teacher in her early years. In the 1980s, the Kanawha County Democrat was elected to the West Virginia "House of Delegates":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/502, serving from …

• Progressive Miners of America

  … West Virginia. Competition between the rival unions grew intense in southern West Virginia, particularly at the mining town of Ward, Kanawha County. In certain instances UMWA members physically attacked field organizers for the PMA and, as a result, many …

• Putnam County

  … new county, which straddles the "Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … Older residents will remember that the Kanawha River divided the county during the … growth. On the south side of Kanawha River, "Hurricane":https://www …

• Dow Chemical Company

  Started in 1897 in Midland, Michigan, Dow Chemical Company is one of the world’s largest chemical, plastics, and agricultural products companies. In 2001, Dow merged with "Union Carbide Corporation":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/823, …

• Muriel Miller Dressler

  … Miller Dressler (July 4, 1918-February 27, 2000) was born in Kanawha County. Both sides of her family went back several generations in the Kanawha Valley. She married Lester Dressler (whose family was from Cabin Creek) in …

• Railroads

  … B&O in 1917. Likewise, the Kanawha & Michigan, which entered the state … Southern, and in 2016 became the Kanawha River Railroad. The last entry into … of great industrial centers, especially in the Kanawha Valley and Northern Panhandle. They also …

• Rainelle

  … .org/articles/841 at his nearby cabin in 1776. U.S. 60 follows the route of the "James River & Kanawha Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/978, also known as the Midland Trail. The highway remained a major thoroughfare from the …

• Lord Dunmore

  … army, under Col. "Andrew Lewis":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1358, advanced to the mouth of the "Kanawha River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1123, there defeating the Shawnee under "Cornstalk":https://www. …

• Raleigh County

  … , led an expedition down the New and Kanawha rivers, noting rich seams of " … road through Raleigh and Fayette to the Kanawha River as a shortcut to the … In the 1840s, the "Giles, Fayette & Kanawha Turnpike":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Dunmore’s War

  … , to meet his deputies at the mouth of the "Kanawha River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1123 on April 14 … .org/articles/1369) in the Greenbrier Valley and journeyed down the Kanawha River to its mouth at "Point Pleasant":https …

• John Echols

  … brigadier general, Echols participated in the battles of First Manassas and Kernstown, where he was wounded. He served in the Kanawha Valley in 1862 and commanded Confederate forces at their defeat at the "Battle of Droop Mountain":http://www. …

• The Economy

  … (MSAs) are contained entirely within the state. Charleston (including Kanawha, Jackson, Boone, Lincoln, and Clay counties) ranked 191st out of … , major plants are still concentrated in the Ohio and Kanawha valleys. There are "steel":https://www. …

• Moccasin Rangers

  The Moccasin Rangers were a Confederate guerrilla company that operated around the headwaters of the "Little Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1422 during the first two years of the "Civil War":http://www. …

• Forest Fires

  … erosion and air and water pollution. There are disproportionately more fires in the southern coalfields, the counties south of the Kanawha River and west of the Bluestone. Absentee "land ownership":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1293 is …

• Fred Mooney

  … 1917 to 1924 and was a radical leader in the West Virginia Mine Wars. He was born in a log cabin on Davis Creek, "Kanawha County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1103. He began work in the local mines at the age of 13, as a trapper boy …