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• Justice of the Peace

  … political figure of any standing to oppose passage was newly elected Supreme Court Justice Richard Neely. The name of the new magistrate courts was taken from the federal model. In other states these courts are called district courts or occasionally …

• Charles Town Races

  … racing seasons were financial failures, and the new track went into receivership. Then Albert J. Boyle took over, putting up new money and convincing the creditors that … facilities. On September 10, 1997, the new owners opened a gambling center with …

• Charleston

  … ex-Confederates, was successful in having the capital of the new state of West Virginia moved from Wheeling to Charleston on … & Ohio (later Kanawha & Michigan and then "New York Central":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1646) on …

• CAMC (Vandalia Health)

  … 1899, the city of Charleston began a new hospital on Cemetery Hill, but ran out … 1982, Kanawha Valley Memorial moved to a new complex across Elk River. The hospital was … for polio patients. Widespread use of the new polio vaccines hastened the closing of the …

• West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine

  … that had been vacated by the Greenbrier Military School. The new school was founded by a small group of West Virginia … in improved and expanded school facilities with the addition of a new library, clinic, science building, and alumni center. In recent …

• Charleston Daily Mail

  … it moved across Virginia Street from its old quarters to a new building at 1001 Virginia Street East, an address it would … July 19, 2015, the _Daily Mail_ was merged into the new _Charleston Gazette-Mail_. _Daily Mail_ Editor "Jack Maurice": …

• John Joseph Kain

  … predecessor’s efforts to build the churches and schools required to serve them. When he left the diocese in 1893, 15 new parishes had been established and six schools founded. Respected for his intellect, Kain was frequently consulted for his positions on …

• Charleston Gazette-Mail

  … to keep the shaky paper afloat. After a fire in 1918 destroyed the newspaper’s plant at the South Side Bridge, the _Gazette_ built new offices on Hale Street, where it remained for 42 years. In 1922, William E. ‘‘Ned’’ Chilton Jr., son of the senator, …

• Kanawha County

  … the Kanawha & Michigan Railroad (later part of the "New York Central":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1646) in … build its large plate glass plant in Kanawha City in 1916. New locks updated river transportation in the 1930s, and air …

• Charleston National Bank

  … . Other businesses occupied parts of the new building, which stood at Capitol and … National officials decided to build a new facility. Originally, Quarrier Street had stopped … 1969, the bank moved to its new facility, Charleston National Plaza, occupying an …

• West Virginia State University

  … to recruit highly qualified faculty and improve the curriculum. A new administration building (now Ferrell Hall), with an auditorium, … as a historically black college, while it carries on its new mission as a ‘‘Living Laboratory of Human Relations.’’ & …

• Charleston Town Center

  … city of Charleston obtained a federal Urban Mass Transit Authority grant to pay for a walkway from downtown Capitol Street to the new shopping center. In the end, the mall signaled the end for many longtime Charleston businesses. Inside the mall, three …

• Kanawha Falls

  … ":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2093, where the "New":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1637 and & … a formidable natural barrier, establishing the boundary between the New River and Kanawha River ecological systems. The falls …

• Kanawha Madonna

  … was found in 1869 in a cave near Pineville, Kentucky, and housed for many years in the Museum of the American Indian in New York. Somewhat similar figures have been unearthed at Etowah, Georgia, in Florida, and in the Spiro mounds of Oklahoma.

• West Virginia Symphony Orchestra

  … chorus, extensive statewide touring, including a second home in Parkersburg, a late summer festival at the Snowshoe resort, and a new home in the "Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1269. In 2015 the …

• Kanawha Records

  … /1191, a popular national recording artist in the late 1920s and early ’30s. With the issue of three albums by Kessinger, a new audience of folk enthusiasts was introduced to his music. Davidson recorded fiddlers "W. Franklin George":http://www. …

• West Virginia Train

  … represented a collaboration of the Centennial Commission and the Chesapeake & Ohio, Baltimore & Ohio, Norfolk & Western, New York Central, and Pennsylvania railroads. These were the major railroads operating in West Virginia at the time, and …

• West Virginia Turnpike

  … Charleston and Princeton. It was estimated the new road would cut the driving time in … would be less costly than building a new highway, the 1968 Federal Highway Act … legislature in 1989 authorized the issuance of new bonds, which meant the continuation of …

• Cheat River

  … The industry was crucial to American success in the War of 1812. Cannonballs made along the Cheat were used in the Battle of New Orleans. George Washington projected the Cheat and Potomac rivers as links, along with canals, in a water route across the …

• Kanawha River

  … indeed continue to the southern sea. The name New River applies to the waterway from where … pack horse trail in order to miss the New River gorge. By 1775, the Morris family … the length of the river. In 1936, three new locks and roller type dams replaced the …

• Lemuel Chenoweth

  … , but the contract was awarded to Chenoweth to build all the main river crossings for the center section of the new turnpike. In 1850, after Chenoweth had completed many bridges on the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, bids were taken for bridges on the …

• Cherokees

  … ":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/912 language speakers in New York and Pennsylvania, and on at least one occasion engaged … did not threaten the Ohio Valley except in the upper New River area of present southwest Virginia. Young men responded …

• West Virginia University

  … excluded. The legislature directed that the new institution’s Board of Visitors … site of Woodburn Hall. Originally called ‘‘New Hall,’’ Woodburn was completed in … Medical Center complex. Stewart originated a new approach to financing major construction by …

• Kanawha Salines

  … , where brine waters were of greater salinity. The salt was used for meat preservation in the Ohio Valley. After the 1830s, New York salt and foreign importation affected Kanawha sales, but the area retained its primacy until the 1850s when agricultural …

• Kanawha Trail

  … the Kanawha River, near St. Albans. Another variation crossed the New River above the mouth of the Bluestone, passed through … Alabama, up through eastern Tennessee and southwestern Virginia to the New and Kanawha rivers. At the mouth of the Kanawha several …