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• Gladys Tuke

  … the original art colony of the "Greenbrier":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/42 … . In the summer of 1956, the Greenbrier art colony was reopened with her work … , a pictorial artist and teacher at Greenbrier College for Women in Lewisburg. Tuke …

• Camp Ashford

  … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/304, a 2,000-bed facility operated by the U.S. Army in what previously had been "The Greenbrier":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/42 hotel. The camp and hospital were named for Col. Bailey K. Ashford, an army …

• The Irish Tract

  … their spouses purchased contiguous acreage, mostly mountainous, in Fayette and Greenbrier counties north of Green Sulphur Springs in West Virginia. … area became known as the Irish Tract. Part of the Greenbrier land became Summers County in 1871, so the tract …

• Italian Prisoners of War

  … near White Sulphur Springs. While so engaged, many also helped Greenbrier Valley farmers to make hay and harvest the year’s crops. … by the military at what was formerly (and later) the Greenbrier resort. The second and smaller group of some 175 Italian …

• Carnegie Hall

  … stage space for the Institute, which was later renamed "Greenbrier College for Women":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2165 and then, in 1933, Greenbrier College. When the college closed in 1972, the state …

• West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine

  … chartered in December 1972 as the Greenbrier College of Osteopathic Medicine. It was … that had been vacated by the Greenbrier Military School. The new school was … Osteopathy) degree. Initial funding for the Greenbrier College of Osteopathic Medicine came …

• Kates Mountain

  … from the entrance to "the Greenbrier":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles … a familiar landmark in eastern "Greenbrier County":http://www.wvencyclopedia. … located within the boundaries of "Greenbrier State Forest":http://www. …

• White Sulphur Springs

  … .org/articles/316 to withdraw. White Sulphur Springs in "Greenbrier County":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2168 is the site of "The Greenbrier":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/42 resort. The …

• Clendenin Family

  … Clendenins, prominent early settlers of the Greenbrier, Kanawha, and Ohio rivers, came to … among the earliest settlers of present Greenbrier County. At his homestead, about two … members of the family departed the Greenbrier Valley in 1788. They established …

• Lewisburg

  Lewisburg, the county seat of "Greenbrier County":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2175. The Greenbrier Valley branch of the " … on the former campus of "Greenbrier College":https://www.wvencyclopedia. …

• Lost World Caverns

  … a Guinness World Record for ‘‘stalagmite sitting’’ in 1971 by staying on top of the ‘‘war club’’ stalagmite for 15 days, 23 hours, and 22 minutes. Geologically, Lost World Caverns is in the Greenbrier Group limestones of the middle Mississippian Age.

• Marlin and Sewell

  … Stephen Sewell, the first residents of European descent in the Greenbrier Valley, had established themselves by 1749 at the mouth of … of 18 who received a large land grant north of the Greenbrier River. He and Marlin permanently parted ways some time after …

• North House Museum

  … .org/articles/1369 features the Greenbrier Historical Society’s collections, which … relating to the history of the Greenbrier Valley include books, serial publications, … , genealogical records, and pictures. The Greenbrier Historical Society also owns the …

• Oakhurst Links

  … , who had moved from Boston to Greenbrier County in 1878. Montague was joined … of Historic Places. In 2012, the "Greenbrier resort":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … Oakhurt Links. The owner of the Greenbrier, "Jim Justice":https://www. …

• Meadow River Lumber Company

  … , brothers Thomas and John Raine incorporated the Meadow River Lumber Company and purchased 32,000 acres of timber in western "Greenbrier County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2168. There they built a large sawmill, the town of " …

• Old Stone Presbyterian Church

  … the congregation, riding horseback to the Greenbrier River to fetch bags of sand … The establishment of the former "Greenbrier College for Women":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2165 and "Greenbrier Military School":http://www. …

• Organ Cave

  … jeffersonii_ described by Thomas Jefferson in 1799 were reportedly found in Organ Cave. The cave is developed in the lower Greenbrier Group limestones of the Mississippian Era. Organ Cave was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. …

• Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller

  Novelist Mittie Frances Clarke Point (April 30, 1850-December 26, 1937) wrote as Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller, the name of her second husband. The author of 80 dime novels published from 1881 to 1915, she was one of the best-known romance writers of her age. …

• Dick Pointer

  … black slave, helped to save about 60 settlers in the Greenbrier Valley. Warned that a band of "Shawnee Indians" … left the Ohio Valley with the intent of attacking the Greenbrier settlements, the settlers with Pointer among them decided to shelter …

• Samuel Price

  … legislature, as a Whig from "Greenbrier County":https://www.wvencyclopedia. … who represented the district of Greenbrier, Pocahontas, Fayette, Raleigh, Nicholas, and Kanawha counties. When he returned to Greenbrier County, his constituents voted to …

• Rainelle

  … ;:https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/185 towns, lies at the intersection of U.S. 60 and State Route 20 in "Greenbrier County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2168, near the Fayette County border. Rainelle was a company town, built by …

• Friars Hole Cave

  … ":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1962 in Pocahontas and Greenbrier counties. The cave lies mostly in middle Greenbrier Group limestones (Mississippian Age). "Saltpeter":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/171 …

• Greenbrier

  … turkey, grouse, thrushes, catbirds, and mockingbirds. Greenbriers serve as important cover plants … . The often impenetrable thickets of greenbrier and their painful spines made … on early settlers. The "Greenbrier River":http://www.wvencyclopedia …

• Greenbrier Company

  … prominent politicians of eastern Virginia. The Greenbrier Company was granted 100,000 … /articles/2069. Settlers returned to the Greenbrier Valley in the early 1760s. … /articles/77 pointed out that the Greenbrier Company’s powerful political connections …

• Greenbrier Limestone

  … in the Mississippian geologic period, the Greenbrier Limestone is exposed primarily in … ringed by mountains, most prominently the Greenbrier Valley and Canaan Valley. Because … in southeastern West Virginia, where the Greenbrier Limestone exceeds 1,000 feet …