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  • World War I

    … . State colleges discontinued German language courses during the war, while several counties held ‘‘loyalty meetings.’’ Statewide food and coal rationing went into effect during the war. Men and women volunteered as Red Cross personnel, while ‘‘Four-Minute …

  • World War II

    … , for instance, salvaged as much as 12 tons of paper in 90 days. Mountaineers supplied more than 600 million tons of coal to fuel the war. Built in the Kanawha Valley, the world’s largest "synthetic rubber plant":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

  • WVU Institute of Technology

    … /1127. The preparatory school was created in Montgomery because of the city’s growing population, which was the result of the coal boom in surrounding Fayette and Kanawha counties; the lack of high schools in southern West Virginia; and the political …

  • Hurry-Up Yost

    … in 1895 and 1896, while earning a law degree. Best known as a college football coach, Yost was also a businessman with coal, oil, and real estate interests in West Virginia and Tennessee. Yost was the brother-in-law of social activist and suffragist " …

  • Morgantown

    … but did not continue northward from Morgantown until 1894. The arrival of the railroad and the discovery of oil, gas, and coal in the surrounding county soon spurred substantial growth. Between 1890 and 1920, while industry expanded statewide, Morgantown …

  • Lincoln County

    … late 1840s, "locks and dams":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1428 were constructed on the Guyandotte River to carry coal and timber from the valley. Throughout the 1850s, steamboats including the _Major Adrian_ and the _R. H. Lindsey_ made …

  • Lincoln County Feud

    … there, McCoy made a confession and, at some point, he or Haley played the fiddle, either ‘‘Brownlow’s Dream’’ or ‘‘Hell Up Coal Hollow.’’ They were then taken to Green Shoal and—by varying accounts—cut, shot, hanged, or hit over the head with the butt end …

  • Morgantown & Kingwood Railroad

    … to build southeast from Morgantown to tap coal mines in the area, but the line … until the late 1940s served about 15 coal mines. It also operated as a secondary … two disconnected segments of the branch railroad. Two coal mines continued to ship coal until …

  • Moundsville

    … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/905, factories, "tanneries":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/685, mills, and "coal mining":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1349. In the 20th century, "Fostoria Glass Company": …

  • Mount Carbon Stone Walls

    Early settlers of European descent observed extensive rock walls on the high ridge between Armstrong and Loop creeks, 1,500 feet above the Kanawha River in "Fayette County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2245. These were documented by …

  • Mount Storm Lake

    … .org/articles/1691. The lake was named for the nearby community of Mount Storm. Built in 1965 to supply water to a coal-fired power plant, Mount Storm Lake continues to be used for that purpose. Dominion Power’s 1,600-megawatt electric generating plant …

  • Mountain Party

    … saving small schools and small businesses. Giardina aggressively took on King Coal in a state identified with and, many argued, dominated by the coal industry. Although she attracted media attention with her quixotic campaign, …

  • William Alexander MacCorkle

    … to the industrial development of the Kanawha Valley. The period saw the building of railways, interurban rail lines, coal operations, and manufacturing enterprises. The Kanawha Land Company, formed under his leadership, attracted two glass companies. The …

  • Alex Mahood

    … southern West Virginia after the elder Mahood’s death at the age of 82. Mahood’s drawings, plans, photographs, and the records of his extensive practice are located in the Eastern Regional Coal Archives in the Craft Memorial Library in Bluefield.

  • Malden

    … 1865, Washington, at age nine and released from slavery, had come with his family to work in the salt industry and local coal mines. Race relations in the Kanawha salt works were remarkable for any state south of the "Mason-Dixon Line":https:// …

  • Mannington

    … . Mannington is located in the midst of rich "oil and gas":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1600 and "coal":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1349 fields. The town participated fully in the oil and gas boom of the late …

  • William Gustavus Conley

    … farm, drove mules on railroad gangs, dug coal, and worked in quarries and sawmills to … politics and pursued an interest in the coal industry as president of the West Virginia … 2155. More than 30,000 West Virginia coal jobs disappeared between 1929 and 1932, …

  • Marshall University

    … , and Marshall's four-year engineering program was reestablished. Dr. Kopp died suddenly in December 2014. Former coal executive Gary White acted as interim president until Mississippi State University Provost Jerome Gilbert became the 37th president in …

  • Material Culture

    … from subsistence farming to industrial capitalism. As railroad, timber, and coal companies transformed West Virginia, people gradually made the … the selling of their labor for a wage in coal mines and factories. As West Virginians became proletarianized, …

  • Matewan

    … ;:http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/333 guards hired by the coal mine owners. Sayles first wrote about the incident in his … depiction of the class war between the local workers and coal mine owners. The plot remains largely faithful to historic fact …

  • Matewan Massacre

    … West Virginia. Along the West Virginia-Kentucky line, some 3,000 miners responded by joining the union and, under coal company policies forbidding employment of union miners, were discharged from their jobs. Hundreds also were forced to vacate their …

  • Kathy Mattea

    … ":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2317. In response she released an album entitled _Coal_, a collection of songs about coal mining. In 2011, she was inducted into the "West Virginia Music Hall of Fame":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

  • Coon Hunting

    … in many parts of the state, particularly in the southern counties. Ironically, the coon hunting tradition runs deepest in the coal producing counties south of Charleston, a region that historically has had a smaller raccoon population than other areas, …

  • Natural History

    … red spruce killed by bark beetles in the 1890s. "Coal mining":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1349 and … removal":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1530 of coal, vacation homes on riverbanks and mountaintops, and fragmentation …

  • Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

    … boys versus girls series set in a fictional Buckhannon; and _Wrestle the Mountain_ is based on the "Farmington coal mine disaster":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2241. The "University of Charleston":http://www.wvencyclopedia …

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