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• Samuel Kercheval

  … in Winchester in 1833. Kercheval focused on the history and the natural features of the region from the "Potomac River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1904 to the "Fairfax Line":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2227. …

• Battle of Keslers Cross Lanes

  … of August 21, 1861, the Confederate army of Gen. John B. Floyd, some 2,100 strong, crossed the "Gauley River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2096 at Carnifex Ferry, "Nicholas County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1670, …

• Civil War

  … states of Pennsylvania and Ohio. The greatest Union sentiment was found in the 24 northwestern counties bordering Pennsylvania, the Ohio River, and along the lines of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Like Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, and the other …

• Civilian Conservation Corps

  … constructed using rustic architecture by the CCC at "Babcock":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/321, "Lost River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1457, and "Cacapon":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/807 …

• Keyser

  … /1801, is located on the "North Branch of the Potomac River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1691 in the " … /2228 in 1736 to seek out the source of the Potomac River. The first local land grant was issued by Fairfax to Christopher …

• Clarksburg

  … feet at the junction of Elk Creek and the "West Fork":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1002 of the Monongahela River. The population in 2020 was 16,039, a number that has remained relatively steady during the 21st century. Two miles …

• Kingwood

  Kingwood is the county seat of "Preston County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1915. Overlooking the Cheat River Valley at an elevation of 1,862 feet, Kingwood was settled in 1807 and chartered by the Virginia legislature in 1853. It was …

• Mary Kinnan

  … she was taken by her captors to a point near the Buckhannon River, then down the Ohio by way of the Little Kanawha. She was then taken to a village near Fort Wayne on the Maumee River, an Ohio tributary. She was sold several times and eventually became …

• Wheeling Hospital

  … in 1900 and discontinued in 1975. Also designated a marine facility, the hospital served the boatmen on the "Ohio River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1740 for many years. The original hospital building was demolished and a new …

• Wheeling Island

  … Island is the second most heavily populated river island in the country, after New York … . The island, located in the Ohio River between mainland Wheeling and Bridgeport, Ohio … feet above flood stage. Other major Ohio River floods occurred in 1884, 1898, 1907 …

• Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway

  … northeastern Ohio coalfields to both the Great Lakes and the Ohio River and offering Wheeling the best way to ship goods to Toledo … was slow because of the rugged terrain north of the Ohio River and the lack of financial resources. The enterprise owed its …

• Wheeling National Heritage Area

  … /articles/1168, particularly the part neighboring on the "Ohio River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1740. It includes a … to the heartland by returning its face to the Ohio River. Most notably, more than $17 million dollars in public and …

• Wheeling Steel

  … a parking lot. By the company’s 40th anniversary in 1960, Wheeling Steel plants stretched for 30 miles along the Ohio River, from Benwood, West Virginia, to Steubenville, Ohio. As an integrated operation with its own coal mines, the company lived up to …

• Wheeling Suspension Bridge

  … wire suspension bridge over the "Ohio River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1740 … Bridge (1841–42) across the Schuylkill River at Philadelphia, which served as the … .org/articles/1591 over the Ohio River, the head of summer navigation on …

• The Wheeling Suspension Bridge Case

  … the "National Road":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1591 (now U.S. 40) over the east channel of the Ohio River and onto "Wheeling Island":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1218. With a 1,010-foot main span, it was for many …

• Whipple Company Store

  … in the late 1890s. In 1906, the New River Company bought several Fayette County mines, … Whipple. The Whipple store was renamed New River Company Store No. 4. The most prominent … in the early 1900s in the New River area. The earliest one was constructed in …

• Albert Blakeslee White

  … White acquired an interest in journalism. He attended Marietta College, a private liberal arts institution in Ohio just across the Ohio River from Wood County, and graduated as the valedictorian of the class of 1878. One year later, he married Agnes Ward …

• Widen

  … built as a coal company town in 1911 by the Elk River Coal & Lumber Company. The company, organized in 1905, succeeded … Creek & Gauley. Bradley soon became president of the Elk River Coal & Lumber Company, controlling more than 80,000 acres …

• Wildlife

  … of these at-risk species were the beaver, river otter, mountain lion, wood duck, black … bald eagles nest along the "Potomac River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1904 and the "Ohio River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ …

• Kyashuta

  … of the Six Nations (Iroquois) in the Ohio River country until around 1778. Kyashuta was a … in his autumn hunt along the Ohio River when he chanced upon George Washington in … & the head of them upon this River.’’ Washington’s diary records Kyashuta’s …

• La Belle Ironworks

  … took its name from the French name for the "Ohio River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1740, La Belle Rivière, ‘‘the beautiful river.’’ Making cut nails was an important 19th-century American manufacture, …

• Division of Labor

  … until after the "United Mine Workers":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/835 successfully organized the Kanawha and New River coalfields, had the largest concentration of unionized workers in the state. By 1914, the state’s economic focus had …

• Labor History

  … Deal gave them new life. West Virginia’s glass workers are a case in point. By the 1930s, the tri-state upper Ohio River region had more than half of the "glass factories":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2116 in the nation. These factories …

• Williamson

  … Fork":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/789 of the Big Sandy River at the junction of U.S. 119 (Appalachian Corridor G) … . The town is situated on the state line, just across the river from South Williamson, Kentucky, and in the heart of the rich …

• Williamstown

  … is located on the "Ohio River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … Buckley Island is located in the Ohio River at Williamstown. Once called Duncan and … 1905. Today, the Interstate 77 Ohio River bridge is located nearby. Williamstown’s …