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• WAJR

  … named for the initials of Greer’s wife, Agnes Jane Reeves Greer. In 1968, both radio and newspaper facilities moved into the new Greer Building. In 1976, control of the company was transferred to Greer family heirs, Richard, John, and David Raese. In 1957 …

• Thomas Walker

  … Loyal Company of Virginia. In 1748, he explored Virginia’s New River Valley on a journey that took him on to … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/789, traversed the confluence of the "New":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1637 and "Greenbrier …

• Warrior Path

  The Warrior Path was one of the most important early north-south trails in eastern North America, extending from western New York to the Carolina Piedmont region by way of the Valley of Virginia. The trail passed through present West Virginia in the …

• Washington

  … to operate on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, built in 1811 at Pittsburgh by the Fulton, Livingston, and Roosevelt group of New York. This boat was patterned after Fulton’s original Hudson River steamboat, _Clermont_, built in 1807. Based on his …

• Camp Horseshoe

  … , Hemophilia Camp, Cancer Camp, and the Horseshoe Adventure Camp for low-income children. In October 2023, Camp Horseshoe signed a new 60-year property lease with the Monongahela National Forest to continue using the property. The camp is one of the …

• Archibald W. Campbell

  … . Campbell then attended Hamilton College Law School in Clinton, New York, graduating in 1855. He moved to "Wheeling … editorials and behind the scenes, for the formation of the new state of West Virginia. President Lincoln appointed Campbell postmaster …

• Ironmaking

  … in 1763. Keep Tryst initiated a new era, but the American Revolution … making era began in the New River Gorge at Quinnimont. There … furnace used coke made from New River coal and iron ore … . The state is banking on new multibillion-dollar projects, such as …

• Waterpower

  … eventually included the Ohio, Cheat, Kanawha, Gauley, Potomac, Shenandoah, and New rivers. The state’s oldest hydroelectric plant, at Glen … including dams at Cheat Lake and at Hawks Nest on New River. In other cases, dams built primarily for navigation or …

• Canaan Valley Resort State Park

  … /440 as a major source of outdoor recreation and revenue. In fact, the park became West Virginia’s first ski resort, sparking a new industry in the state. Skiing had been done at Canaan Valley as early as 1953, when the Washington Ski Club installed a rope …

• Iroquois

  … colonial times in what is now upstate New York. The confederates themselves called their … by Tuscaroras en route to their new home in New York, Iroquois did not … org/articles/196, beginning in the Greenbrier, New River, and Monongahela watersheds. This in …

• Watoga Land Association

  … part of the cut-over timberland was divided into tracts of ten or more acres to be used for farming. A promotional article for the new town noted that blacks had built cities for others, but never a city for themselves. ‘‘Let us build us a City upon the …

• Island Creek Coal Company

  … sold to Armand Hammer of Occidental Petroleum Company. A few years later, some of Island Creek’s assets were sold to a new firm, Ioxy. The company moved its headquarters from Holden, and much of that town was purchased by the West Virginia Department of …

• Watoga State Park

  The largest of West Virginia’s state parks, at 10,100 acres, Watoga is also among the oldest, dating back to the first land acquisitions by the West Virginia Game and Fish Commission in the 1920s. The park is located in southern "Pocahontas County& …

• Italian Prisoners of War

  … in northern West Virginia, who visited the prisoners on Sundays at Camp Dawson for picnics and entertainment. The Italians were glad to be safely out of the war, and after their repatriation in 1945, many returned to build new lives in America.

• Italians

  … mines were among the most mechanized in this country, but miners born in America or northern Europe generally operated the new machines and usually earned better money, while their counterparts from less favored regions did the handwork. Despite this …

• Watt Powell Park

  … Powell who convinced city officials to build a new ballpark. At the time, he worked as … , Watt Powell Park was replaced by the new Appalachian Power Park (now GoMart Ballpark) in … Virginia Power held its first game at the new park on April 14, 2005. The …

• It’s Wheeling Steel

  … January 1939, its appeal proved to be nationwide. On June 25, 1939, _Wheeling Steel_ musicians performed at the World's Fair in New York, and more than 26,000 people attended the outdoor performance. In 1941, _It’s Wheeling Steel_ jumped to the NBC Blue …

• Jackson County

  … of the Virginia legislature, March 1, 1831. The county was named in honor of Andrew Jackson, the hero of the Battle of New Orleans and seventh president of the United States. The first European-American to visit the area of Jackson County was probably & …

• William Gaston Caperton III

  … money based on the merit of individual building and renovation proposals and encourage school consolidation. Caperton encouraged the building of new schools. As he said in 1993 when the School Building Authority’s funding was challenged, ‘‘How can we …

• John Jay Jackson Jr.

  … was born near "Parkersburg":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1811. A year after his graduation from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1845, he was admitted to the bar and joined his prominent father in the practice of …

• John Jay Jackson Sr.

  … ":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2439 the following month, he and other conservatives delayed an attempt to create a new state. By 1863, he supported the move for the "creation of a separate state":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• The Capitol

  … days of the fire that consumed the picturesque West Virginia capitol in downtown Charleston, political leaders began to plan for a new and grander structure. On January 21, 1921, the legislature adopted a joint resolution to raise a commission composed of …

• Weaving

  … in West Virginia as part of Franklin Roosevelt’s "New Deal":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2265 during … http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/315 organization in Elkins introduces new people each year to the craft while giving experienced …

• Capitols of West Virginia

  … , the city presented the state with a new structure. The 1876 capitol was a handsome … was erected, incorporating the 1870 capitol into the new structure. The 85 rooms of the new building, which housed all the departments of state government, were completely …

• Jackson’s Mill

  … ’s father, Jonathan Jackson, was raised there but moved with his new bride, Julia Neale, to nearby "Clarksburg":http://www. … he left to enter the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. In 1919, a large stone monument was erected at Jackson’ …