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• Folklore

  … weddings, and birthdays. Every group, be they coal miners, computer programmers, or residents of a … origin brought to West Virginia by immigrant coal miners. A booklet and set of recordings … in the New River Gorge and the Coal River basin, and by the " …

• Monongahela Culture

  … Atiouandaron groups. The Black Minqua wore a black badge on their breasts, and some archeologists believe these are the cannel coal pendants that are common at Monongahela sites. The Monongahela supplied furs to Iroquoian tribes in the lower Great Lakes …

• Foodways

  Moonshine, beets, and black walnuts. Biscuits and gravy. Meat loaf, mashed potatoes, and green beans. The foods of West Virginia are a combination of fast, slow, old, new, from-the-land, and ethnic. West Virginia food habits arose from the state’s land …

• Fools’ Parade

  … , and directed by Andrew V. McLaglen for Columbia Pictures. The 1971 film starred Jimmy Stewart as the legendary coal-shooter Mattie Appleyard (a character modeled after West Virginia storyteller Riley Wilson and the convict Holly Griffith), George Kennedy …

• Forestry

  … large landholdings predominate in the state’s private woodlands, with West Virginia forests owned by major national corporations, coal companies, railroads, utilities, and other concerns. Numerous West Virginians hold tracts of much smaller size, with the …

• Arch Moore

  … in the settlement of a national coal strike. His hand in the … benefited about 39,000 West Virginia coal miners who were out on … 100 million lawsuit against the Pittston Coal Company for $1 million in … /articles/697 of 1972, a coal dam collapse that killed 125 …

• Memphis Tennessee Garrison

  … , Virginia. Her father was a former slave who became a coal miner, and she grew up in the southern West Virginia … William Melvin Garrison of Gary, McDowell County, an electrician and coal company foreman, on October 5, 1918. Garrison graduated from …

• Frank Gatski

  Athlete Frank ‘‘Gunner’’ Gatski (March 18, 1922-November 22, 2005) was born in Farmington. He grew up in No. 9 coal camp and played football at Farmington High School. He later played under Coach "Cam Henderson":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Gauley River

  … was at Peters Creek in Nicholas County at the end of the 1700s. Only a few settlements appeared along Gauley River until the coal and timber barons brought workers in at the end of the 19th century to extract the rich resources. A Civil War battle took …

• Ghostlore

  … to lawful combat. Later, railroads, road building, and construction of tunnels and bridges took a heavy toll in lives. Coal mining, long our deadliest occupation, has been particularly haunted by ghostly encounters. Sometimes a mining accident would kill …

• Gilmer County

  … for mills. Farming was the chief local occupation until timber, coal, "oil, and gas":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles … regular sight. Outgoing freight included the county’s timber and coal. The Gainers were prominent rivermen, and two of the …

• Glass Industry

  … of the nation’s production of glass bottles. Within the state, glass production ranked in the second tier of industries, far behind coal but close in importance to coke, chemicals, and steel in terms of number of employees and the value of its products. …

• Glen Ferris Inn

  … ’s several enterprises, including farming, timbering, and sawmills, flatboat building, and one of West Virginia’s earliest commercial coal mining operations. The Glen Ferris Inn stands at the landmark "falls of the Great Kanawha River":http://www …

• Grandview Park

  … river far below. In 1939, the West Virginia Conservation Commission purchased a 52-acre tract of land from the Admiralty Coal Company for development of a roadside park. Construction of facilities, such as parking areas, picnic shelters, benches, and …

• Greeks

  … and steel centers of Wheeling and Weirton and in many coal mines around the state. The 1910 census lists 787 foreign- … Ohio counties. Though initially working in West Virginia’s coal and manufacturing industries, many Greeks gravitated toward retail, such …

• Greenbrier Division

  … O branches in West Virginia, the Greenbrier Division was not a coal-hauling line, but served the valley’s timber industry. Construction … miles. At Durbin a junction was made in 1903 with the Coal & Iron Railroad, later part of the "Western Maryland …

• Elk River

  … ;Timbering":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/728, "oil and gas":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1600 drilling, and coal mining have been conducted in the basin for many years. The majority of the forest in the Elk River basin is …

• Elkins

  … as a railroad center for more than 75 years with the movement of coal and lumber by the West Virginia Central & Pittsburg, the "Coal & Coke":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1337, the "Western …

• Hallie Davis Elkins

  … in partnership with his father-in-law. The Davis and Elkins partnership prospered, expanding into a business empire based on coal, timber, rail, and related enterprises. Since much of it was located in West Virginia, the Elkinses began construction in …

• Floods

  … levee failures represent the most dangerous source. The Mountain State’s most deadly flood, caused by the failure of poorly designed coal-refuse dams on Buffalo Creek in Logan County on February 26, 1972, reached approximately 50,000 cubic feet per second …

• Elkinsia Polymorpha

  … age stone known as the Hampshire Formation. The rocks in which these fossils are found are sedimentary mud stones and thin, impure coal beds that were deposited in swampy areas on an ancient coastal plain. _Elkinsia_ was found by Joseph F. Schwietering of …

• Flora

  … to shales conglomerates and alkaline limestones. Some rocks are high in iron, sulfur, calcium, aluminum, manganese, and silica. Coal and shale outcrops are common. Deep deposits of rich alluvial soils cover many river floodplains. Climate, topography, …

• Ethnic Life

  … of Europe, but especially the south and east, to work in the state’s burgeoning industries, including railroads, timber, coal, steel, and glass. Among them were immigrants from "Hungary":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/738, Slovakia, & …

• Everettville Mine Disaster

  On April 30, 1927, an explosion roared through the Federal No. 3 mine owned by New England Fuel and Transportation Company of Everettville, Monongalia County. The explosion, the subsequent fire, and gas in the mine killed 111 men. Flames and debris …

• Exploration

  … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/167 (or Salley) explored the "Coal River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1365 … ;:https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/609, they discovered fine coal seams. French authorities in Canada countered Virginia’s …