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• Castle Rock

  … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1858 is a perpendicular formation over 130 feet in height, carved from Pineville Sandstone of the New River Series by the "Guyandotte River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/98, which flows by the rock’s …

• Jews

  … , their arrival coincided with the explosive growth of West Virginia’s coal industry, and some Jewish immigrants in Baltimore and New York, hearing of the potential the state’s growing economy offered to small business people, found their way to the …

• West Virginia Archeological Society

  … ":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2150 in Moundsville, which later became the Delf Norona Museum. The goals of the new society were to encourage the study of "archeology":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/269 in West Virginia …

• West Virginia Archives and History

  … the first state historian and archivist and took charge of the new agency on June 1, 1905. Initially located in the capitol annex … and History library, state archives, and museum moved to the new state capitol in 1929 and to the adjacent "Culture …

• Johnnie Johnson

  … from 1946 to 1952, before moving to St. Louis. It was there that he formed his own band—the Johnnie Johnson Trio—and on New Year’s Eve 1952 he hired rock ’n’ roll pioneer Chuck Berry. Johnson soon became Berry’s piano player and collaborated with Berry on …

• Caves

  … Cave was described as early as 1837. The private West Virginia Speleological Survey currently maintains records on West Virginia caves. ‘‘New’’ caves are discovered as cavers search the limestone areas of the state, so the number of known caves continues …

• West Virginia Baptist State Convention

  … . Bryant, R.D.W. Meadows, and Byrd Prillerman. The convention’s district associations now are Flat Top, Guyan Valley, Mt. Zion, New River, Tug River, Tygart Valley, and Winding Gulf, as well as Mt. Olivet. There are about 150 individual churches. At the …

• West Virginia Beacon Digest

  … law, Stephen R. and Deborah S. Starks, continued publication under the new name _Beacon Digest_. To increase readership and attract new advertisers, the newspaper went to paid subscriptions. In 2005, the _Beacon Digest_ …

• West Virginia Commission on the Arts

  The West Virginia Commission on the Arts was created by the legislature in 1967 as a state agency to accept and disburse federal arts dollars from the newly created National Endowment for the Arts. Originally the Governor’s Council on the Arts, it was …

• Ceredo

  … be eliminated by limiting its spread to new territories. When Thayer turned his attention toward … Aid Company moved there and founded Ceredo. The new town, on the banks of the & … . Only a handful of the original New England anti-slavery settlers stayed, and …

• Joseph Johnson

  … office January 1, 1852. Meanwhile, the new constitution, which called for the popular … for governor by his party. The new constitution was adopted, and Johnson … his four-year term implementing the new constitution, promoting internal improvements, and …

• West Virginia Folklore Society

  … at Fairmont State until 1980. After 13 years of dormancy, in 1993, _West Virginia Folklore_ was reissued under a new format and title, _Traditions: A Journal of West Virginia Folk Culture and Educational Awareness_, and is published annually at Fairmont …

• Frances Benjamin Johnston

  … , gave Johnston an early model of his new roll-film camera. Johnston began her … working as the Washington correspondent for a New York newspaper, she turned fulltime to … ’s photographs of women workers in New England shoe factories were distributed over …

• Chamber of Commerce

  … first president of the state Chamber of Commerce. The first Chamber of Commerce in America was the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, which traces its origins to 1768, in the colonial period. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce was founded in 1912. …

• Mother Jones

  … on her feet. After a year in the New River coalfield, Jones was sent to the … /articles/941 injunction. When freed, she returned to New River, where the strike continued until the … Roosevelt's summer home at Oyster Bay, New York. On May 1, 1930, Mother …

• S. L. Jones

  … . His artwork is in the permanent collections of the National Museum of American Art, the Museum of American Art, the Museum of American Folk Art, and the West Virginia State Museum. Jones’s creations were sold in art galleries from New York to Texas.

• Louis Watson Chappell

  … . The results of his research were published in 1933 in his book _John Henry: A Folk-Lore Study_ which set a new standard of thoroughness in ballad scholarship. In 1937, Chappell purchased one of only a few portable disk recording machines in existence …

• West Virginia Hillbilly

  … . He came out of retirement on February 25, 1986, on his 75th birthday to repurchase the paper. Upon his second retirement in 1992 Comstock sold the paper to Sandy McCauley. The new owners ceased to publish the _West Virginia Hillbilly_ in late 2001.

• West Virginia Historical Society

  … transferred its property to the West Virginia Board of Public Works for inclusion in the newly created Archives and History. The new state historian and archivist removed the collections to Archives and History’s quarters in the annex, where they served as …

• West Virginia History

  … move to West Virginia University. The first editor under the new arrangement was Ronald L. Lewis, followed by Kenneth Fones- … 1 of _West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies_ (New Series) appeared in Spring 2007, with West Virginia University …

• West Virginia Independence Hall

  … western counties to be formed into a new state. The legislature of the Reorganized … 1863, and the constitutional convention for the new state met there in late 1861 to … a federal building until 1907, when a new federal building was completed. An insurance …

• West Virginia Industrial Home For Youth

  … was completed at the Industrial Home for Youth, with separate wings for females, males, and sex offenders. The new building provided for greater security, in-house medical services, and treatment programs. Educational services were provided through the …

• West Virginia Mine Workers Union

  … they had nothing to lose by joining the fledgling organization. The new union was socialist in its orientation and not to be confused … the organizing drives by Lewis’s UMWA during Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal era that labor was to regain strength in the …

• Judicial Branch

  … issues, the Supreme Court of Appeals is a noteworthy entity in West Virginia policy making. At times the court’s decisions create new public policy or incrementally adjust existing policy. It is important to note, however, that in most of its cases the …

• West Virginia National Guard

  … of Cabell County troops fought alongside Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815. Cabell, Berkeley, and Jefferson counties provided … , when a national coal strike brought miners out in the New River Gorge, and in 1912–13 when miners struck for …