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• Charleston Town Center

  … it opened in November 1983, the three-level Charleston Town Center was one of the largest indoor malls east of the Mississippi River. The mall, bounded by Quarrier, Lee, Court, and Clendenin streets, covers 26 acres and occupies an entire city block in & …

• Cheat Lake

  The Cheat River dam was built as a privately owned "hydroelectric": … followed in the 20th century degraded the Cheat River. By the 1950s, few fish were left. … in earnest in the 1990s cleansed the river and its tributaries. Cheat Lake was originally …

• Kanawha Madonna

  … is 14 inches long. The statue was discovered by four teenage boys in an almost inaccessible cave in a cliff overlooking the Kanawha River near Chelyan. It was lying on its back under a four-inch-thick flat stone. It was later obtained by "Dr. John …

• Kanawha Riflemen

  … were unabashedly pro-Southern. In 1861, the worst fears of the Kanawha Riflemen were realized as federal troops headed up the Kanawha River for Charleston. Led by Patton, their 24-year-old major, the Riflemen met the Yankees at Scary Creek, a tributary of …

• Chemical Industry

  … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/808 on the Ohio River. The highly concentrated brine was shipped by … until the 1990s. Farther down the Kanawha River, in 1917, the U.S. government … plant near Willow Island on the Ohio River to produce pigments and dyes. In …

• Lemuel Chenoweth

  … was awarded to Chenoweth to build all the main river crossings for the center section of the new … One of two bridges was to cross the Tygart Valley River at Philippi and the other to cross the West Fork River at Hunsaker’s Ferry near Fairmont. He received …

• Cherokees

  … cultivated in sheltered mountain coves and river bottoms. Even after European diseases and … south of the "Great Kanawha River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles … Cherokees lived along the Little Tennessee River in East Tennessee. The Middle …

• Kanawha Salines

  … approximately 10 miles along both sides of the Kanawha River, from Witcher Creek downstream to the present Kanawha City … , teamsters, carpenters, and masons supported the industry. Transient river men from steamboats and flatboats combined with these …

• Kanawha Trail

  … From there it followed the Meadow River and the Midland Trail (now U … Albans. Another variation crossed the New River above the mouth of the … Paint Creek north to the Kanawha River. This trail was used by … to the New and Kanawha rivers. At the mouth of the …

• Western Maryland Railway

  … toward Cumberland, Maryland, just across the Potomac River from West Virginia. Construction was completed … on the Maryland side of the Potomac River. It was no easy task because … up the best locations along the river. Nonetheless, the line was completed in …

• Kanawha Valley Hospital

  … Virginia Street site until 1982, when it moved to a new 170-bed facility on Pennsylvania Avenue, near the Elk River. The hospital merged with "Charleston Area Medical Center":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1090 in 1986. After renovations …

• Chesapeake & Ohio Railway

  … the Virginia Central to the Ohio River, no construction had taken place … extend the railroad to the Ohio River. The C&O soon … the line followed the New River for a considerable distance, the … ;O, such as the Coal River & Western Railroad and the …

• Weston & Gauley Bridge Turnpike

  … /584 at Weston with the "James River & Kanawha Turnpike":http://www. … of Weston, and over the Little Kanawha River at Bulltown. The most significant structure, … the wire suspension bridge crossing the Elk River at Sutton. This bridge was built …

• James Kay

  … arch culverts through the New River Gorge, also taking contracts in … coal lands in the New River area before being called to … coal across the "New River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … of the "New River Gorge National River":http://www …

• Weston State Hospital

  … State Hospital housed West Virginians with mental health issues from 1864 to 1994. Built on 269 acres across the West Fork River from Weston, it was authorized by the Virginia legislature in the early 1850s as the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. Politics …

• Kaymoor

  … south side of the "New River Gorge":https://www.wvencyclopedia. … and 560 feet above New River. Villages, known as Kaymoor One … areas developed, one in the river bottom and the other far … 1, 1925, to the New River Pocahontas Coal Company. The new …

• Westover

  … articles/1402 and over the "Monongahela River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … Westover lies in a bend of the river, just opposite its larger neighbor. It … from Westover to Morgantown by a Monongahela River bridge, a busy entryway into the …

• MeadWestvaco

  … ; Elk Railroad to connect its surrounding timberlands to the sawmill at Cass and to the Chesepeake & Ohio’s Greenbrier River line. Incorporated in 1910, the logging railroad was chartered to run between Bemis, in Randolph County, and Webster Springs. …

• Wetlands

  … ":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/908, Tucker County. Other important wetland areas include the upper Meadow River drainage in Greenbrier County, Cranesville Swamp in Preston County, Cranberry Glades in Pocahontas County, and the drainages of …

• Chester Teapot

  … /articles/1700. The teapot is a symbol of the local potteries that flourished in Chester, nearby Newell, and across the Ohio River in East Liverpool, Ohio. To historic preservationists it is a piece of commercial archeology, a representative of a type of …

• Wetzel County

  … county fronts the "Ohio River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … the west by the Ohio River. Wetzel was originally part of … /articles/1685, and the Ohio River is a vital route for … and south toward the Mississippi River. A small airport is located …

• Wheeling

  … below Pittsburgh on the "Ohio River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … came to eye the rich river valley. "Celoron de Blainville … first bridge across the Ohio River, which was for many years … of the ‘‘rail, road, and river’’ looks to its past to …

• John E. Kenna

  … . Assisted by his powerful connections, Kenna built his popularity in the Kanawha Valley by working for improvements to the Kanawha River navigation system and by his efforts to have the state capital moved permanently back to Charleston. In 1883, the …

• Kenova

  … Sandy":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/484 rivers. L. T. Peck, the founder, chose … to build the first bridge across the Ohio River above Cincinnati. Peck organized the Kenova … In 1892, the N&W Ohio River bridge was completed. That year the & …

• Simon Kenton

  … winters in the 1770s trapping game along the "Ohio River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1740 between the & … and "Kanawha":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1123 rivers. The cane fields of Kentucky were where Kenton made a …