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• Lake Tight

  … area by repeatedly damming the ancestral Kanawha River system northwest of present Chillicothe, … persist to the present. The ancestral Kanawha River, known as the Teays River, … The course of the modern "Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org …

• Bridgemont Community and Technical College

  … structures in the city. The 2011 headcount enrollment was 1,231. On January 1, 2014, Brigemont merged with "Kanawha Valley Community and Technical College":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2306 in South Charleston and became " …

• Thomas McHugh

  … as a first lieutenant. After a four-year stint, he attended WVU College of Law, graduating in 1964. McHugh was elected judge for Kanawha County Circuit Court in 1974, and was reelected in 1976. McHugh was elected to the Supreme Court in 1980 and was …

• John Perdue

  … in the Democratic primary to Earl Ray Tomblin, who was serving as acting governor at the time. Perdue was elected to a sixth term as treasurer on November 8, 2016. He and his wife, Robin, have two daughters and live in Cross Lanes, Kanawha County.

• Romeo Freer

  … the bar in 1868, he served as prosecuting attorney for Fayette and Boone counties. He was elected prosecuting attorney for Kanawha County in 1870. President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him consul to Nicaragua in 1872. He returned to Charleston in January …

• The Sesquicentennial

  … Virginia," a poem commemorating the Sesquicentennial. Over three nights, thousands of people gathered at the Capitol and across the Kanawha River to view a 3-D presentation, called “A Century and a Half of West Virginia Pride,” that was projected …

• Marcellus Shale

  … gas travels through pipelines to the consumer. In 2002, the state issued the first Marcellus Shale permit for a well in Kanawha County. Since then, drilling has taken place in 45 of 55 West Virginia counties, mostly in the southwestern and north-central …

• Jorea Marple

  … an elementary teacher in Monongalia County. In 1971, she moved to Kanawha County, where she worked as a teacher, reading specialist, and principal. She was superintendent of Kanawha County schools from 1993 to 1998. Marple served as assistant …

• Capital Cities

  … lot were donated to the West Virginia Board of Public Works by the State House Company, the city of Charleston, and the Kanawha County Court, the latter two of which had pledged to retire an outstanding debt on the property. State government occupied a …

• Matthew Reese

  … F. Kennedy’s primary campaign":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1186 in West Virginia. From the basement of the Kanawha Hotel in Charleston, Reese helped organize all 55 counties and recruited thousands of campaign volunteers. He worked with …

• Ostenaco

  … played a major role bolstered the Cherokee claim to ownership of land south of Ohio River and west of Kanawha River, and gave the Cherokee Nation an effective bargaining stance when the southwestern Virginia lands were considered during negotiations …

• Internet Service

  … in November 1994. MarCom emerged in Bridgeport and MountainNet in Morgantown. In 1995 a local dial-up number in the Kanawha Valley and unlimited Internet time cost $25 a month. Internet content developed within West Virginia also grew during this …

• Snowstorm of October 2012

  … 2012 storm. Accumulations of two to 10 inches were common in Wyoming, McDowell, Mingo, Logan, Boone, Lincoln, Wayne, Putnam, Kanawha, Clay, Braxton, and Barbour counties. At the National Weather Service office, less than five miles south of Charleston, …

• Walt Helmick

  … state agriculture commissioner be a “practical farmer,” and Helmick’s opponents said he did not meet the requirement. A Kanawha Circuit judge ruled that Helmick could stay in the race, saying the Legislature overstepped its bounds by imposing restrictions …

• BridgeValley Community and Technical College

  Bridgemont Community and Technical College and Kanawha Valley Community and Technical College became independent institutions in 2009 after having been components of "WVU Institute of Technology":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1374 and & …

• Battle of Charleston

  … the Confederacy made plans to recover the Kanawha Valley after General "Thomas “ … around 5,000 Union soldiers in the Kanawha Valley under Colonel "Joseph A … to leave their homes along present Kanawha Boulevard. Confederates reached downtown around 3 …

• Snowstorm of January 1978

  … and high winds caused rapid snowmelt. Many rivers went into flood. The most serious flooding was along the "Little Kanawha":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1422 and "Tug Fork":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/789 Rivers. …

• Flood of 2016

  … PGA tour. A total of 23 people died in the flood, most of them in Greenbrier County and in the Clendenin area of Kanawha County. More than 1,500 homes and businesses were destroyed, and another 2,500 significantly damaged, while losses to highways and …

• Spring Hill Cemetery, Huntington

  Spanning 110 acres in southeast "Huntington":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/751, Spring Hill Cemetery is the resting place of generations of the community’s leading citizens. Originally only 30 acres, the cemetery has been steadily …

• Flood of 1916

  … of Cabin Creek in eastern "Kanawha County":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … a boy at Buffalo on the "Kanawha River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … ;:https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1089 Kanawha City neighborhood, more than 200 & …

• Elizabeth Harden Gilmore

  … the first woman licensed as a funeral director in "Kanawha County":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1103. Gilmore … active in a number of organizations, including Girl Scouts, the Kanawha Valley Council on Human Relations, and the U.S. …