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• Webster County Woodchopping Festival

  … 1990 to 1994. His son, Jason, is now a champion wood chopper. New Zealander Jason Wynyard won the championship in 2002 and 2003, and in 2004 and 2005 it was taken by residents of New York state. Arden Cogar Jr. won the title in 2007, and Jason …

• John Jeremiah Jacob

  … difficult times and the adoption of a new constitution, prevented many of his proposals … the South during the Civil War. The new constitution changed the gubernatorial term from … Jacob’s first term ended before the new constitution and the one-term limit …

• Capon Springs Resort

  … /1604, allowed the Austins to extend plumbing and electricity throughout the resort by 1938. Local workers were hired to build a new kitchen and dining room, where family-style meals are still served, and to renovate other buildings. A nine-hole golf …

• Wedding Customs

  … in West Virginia at the home of the new bride and groom on their wedding night. … ) were carried out at the expense of the new couple. Most often, the groom was ridden on … about. Grooms have been made to cart their new wives through town in a wheelbarrow. In …

• James Gang

  … as the outlaw Jesse James. Elkins and James were contemporaries. Both men grew up in Missouri, and Elkins arrived in the East from New Mexico territory near enough to the time of James’s death to fuel the rumor. In fact, Elkins had taught Cole Younger in …

• Captain Bull

  … to the uprising, the British superintendent of Indian affairs, Sir William Johnson, had Bull and his party captured at their village in New York. Released in 1768 on condition they never return, they chose the Western Virginia wilderness, not only for the …

• James Produce Company

  … the company into bankruptcy, and it was E. L. who built a new business. After his death in 1967, his son, Charles II, … holding company, the C. H. James Company, that includes both a new produce company and the original family business. Charles H. James III …

• The Cardinal

  … its 921-mile, 23-hour trip in New York City, and ends in Chicago, … Pennsylvania, and Delaware on its way to New York. The Cardinal follows the historic route … Springs, proceeds to Hinton, passes through the New River Gorge towns of Prince and Thurmond, …

• John S. Carlile

  … elected as Virginia members of the U.S. Senate by the new Unionist state legislature. In the summer of 1862, when the … . He insisted upon a referendum among the people of the proposed new state before statehood could be approved. Given the Confederate …

• Carnegie Hall

  … Parkersburg, but only four Carnegie Hall performing arts centers, in "Lewisburg":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1369, New York, Pittsburgh, and Scotland. In 1902, Carnegie donated $26,750 to the Lewisburg Female Institute to build the …

• Battle of Carnifex Ferry

  … after the Battle of Carnifex Ferry, there was a vote in areas controlled by federal forces to decide whether to create a new state. The favorable vote was a key step in the "formation of West Virginia":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ …

• Weirton Steel

  … , Weirton Steel stock began trading on the New York Stock Exchange, despite the strident objections … Heights was cleared to make way for a new Walmart, which is now one of West … partnership with Form Energy to build a new 55-acre iron-air battery factory on …

• James River & Kanawha Turnpike

  … & Kanawha Canal project. Company surveyors located the road through Greenbrier and Fayette counties on the north side of the New and Kanawha rivers because it required fewer bridges and furnished better grades at lower cost. Covered bridges over the …

• Isaiah Welch

  … the rank of captain in the Confederate military service. In cooperation with former Confederate cartographer and fellow New South industrialist "Jedediah Hotchkiss":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/499, Welch surveyed the mineral …

• Wellsburg

  … . The original name continued until 1816, when it was changed to Wellsburg, to avoid confusion with Charles Town, Jefferson County. The new name was in honor of Alexander Wells, Charles Prather’s son-in-law. Late in 1890, nearby Midway and Lazearville were …

• Volkmar Wentzel

  … Volkmar Kurt Wentzel (February 8, 1915-May 10, 2006) was born in Dresden, Germany. After emigrating with his family to Binghamton, New York, at age 11, he later moved to Washington on his own. He completed high school there and in Aurora, "Preston …

• Jazz

  … /599 in Harpers Ferry, Redman went to New York to play saxophone with various outfits … Lionel Hampton. The last quarter century saw new faces in contemporary jazz. "Bob Thompson … of years in the 1980s and ’90s. New River Jazz is a group of volunteer …

• Carr China Company

  … Carr families brought Thomas Carr, the president of the Warwick Pottery Company in Wheeling, to take over the Grafton pottery. The new operation was called Carr China Company. After Thomas Carr’s retirement in 1923, Carr China successfully competed in the …

• Fannie Cobb Carter

  … -American educator Fannie Cobb (September 30, 1872-March 29, 1973) was born in Charleston in the same year a new state constitution prohibited Black children and White children from attending school together. Cobb learned early the value of education and …

• West Augusta

  … Continental Congress was petitioned to form a new state called "Westsylvania":http:// … Congress lacked the authority to create a new state. On October 7, 1776, … that abolished it and created three new counties, Monongalia, Ohio and Yohogania. …

• Jefferson County

  … and English immigrants, many of them arriving from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. Shortly thereafter, other settlers arrived from … the decision in 1863 to include Jefferson County in the new state of West Virginia, although most residents had sided …

• Cass

  … paper manufacturer who was vice president of the company. West Virginia Pulp & Paper, owned largely by the Luke family of New York, built a paper mill at Luke, Maryland, in 1892, and another at Covington, Virginia, in 1900. Both mills used " …

• Jefferson National Forest

  … .org/articles/2024 (about 2.64 percent of its total area) and is part of the New River Valley and New Castle Ranger Districts, accessible by State Routes 15, 17, and 20. Oak-pine forests cover the mountainous West …

• Cass Scenic Railroad

  … facilities, was purchased by the state in 1962 to create the new park. The first passenger trip was June 15, 1963, during … Cass, additional locomotives, gift and craft shops, museums, and a new depot and engine shop. Cass Scenic Railroad State Park includes …

• Jehovah’s Witnesses

  … he understood the Bible in a ‘‘new light.’’ Eight families accepted this … 1890 the Bible Students built the New Light Church. Jehovah’s Witnesses … , Follansbee, Huttonsville, Keyser, Martinsburg, Morgantown, New Martinsville, Philippi, Richwood, St. Marys, …