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• Kanawha Valley Bank

  … . Dickinson chose to invest in a substantial new building, five floors on Front Street (now … , John L. Dickinson moved his bank into new quarters on the former site of the … Baronner was in charge of developing a new high rise bank building, One Valley Square …

• Western Maryland Railway

  … Canyon brought the West Virginia Central to the new town of Elkins in 1889. By chartering … at a foreclosure sale. In the 1920s, the new WM purchased the Greenbrier, Cheat & … trust with the Chase National Bank of New York. There it remained until 1964, …

• Kanawha Valley Hospital

  … and incorporated as Kanawha Valley Hospital and Sanatorium. In 1925, a new corporation, Kanawha Valley Hospital, bought the facility. By that … Virginia Street site until 1982, when it moved to a new 170-bed facility on Pennsylvania Avenue, near the Elk …

• Weston

  … Interstate 79 and Corridor H brought new development to the outskirts of town … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1002 eliminated flooding. New elementary, middle, and high schools were … Weston State Hospital closed, but a new mental health facility--the William R …

• Chesapeake & Ohio Railway

  … the boundary between Virginia and the new state of West Virginia. Wickham also … a true transcontinental railroad. His contacts with New York financiers were desperately needed by … than doubled the mileage it operated, new locomotives and rolling stock had …

• Weston & Gauley Bridge Turnpike

  … to collect tolls to maintain the road during the war. Following West Virginia statehood in 1863, all of the turnpikes in the new state were turned over to the counties through which they ran. Money was scarce, and little was done to maintain these roads. …

• James Kay

  … he built major arch culverts through the New River Gorge, also taking contracts in Ohio … Nest. He acquired coal lands in the New River area before being called to New … car system to carry coal across the "New River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Weston State Hospital

  … National Historic Landmark":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1571. Weston State Hospital closed in May 1994, replaced by the new $27 million William R. Sharpe Jr. Hospital in Weston. The Weston State Hospital building, now privately owned, …

• Kaymoor

  … the south side of the "New River Gorge":https://www. … by A. A. Low, a wealthy New York merchant and financier of … miles apart and 560 feet above New River. Villages, known as Kaymoor … on March 1, 1925, to the New River Pocahontas Coal Company. The …

• Westsylvania

  … the region by promoting the formation of a new colony, "Vandalia":https://www. … which led to the Revolutionary War. A new effort to achieve the same goal was … approve the creation of Westsylvania as a new commonwealth, a step toward the creation of …

• Elizabeth Kee

  … Bluefield, who was first elected to Congress in 1932. A New Deal Democrat, John Kee chaired the House Foreign Affairs … ’ hospitals, higher pay for personnel, and the construction of new facilities. The congresswoman retired in 1964 and was succeeded in …

• MeadWestvaco

  … Piedmont and incorporated the company under the new name of the West Virginia Paper Company. The company opened its headquarters in New York City in 1894 and in 1897 … Paper began constructing a sawmill and a new town at "Cass":http://www …

• Chessie Kitten

  … to Chesapeake & Ohio Railway President J. J. Bernet. Two new passenger trains had recently been inaugurated, the Sportsman and the George Washington. An advertising campaign promoting the new trains was under way and Probert was about to …

• Chessie System

  … Western Maryland in 1964. The merger of the C&O, the B&O, and the Western Maryland proceeded slowly. In 1972, the new president of the C&O-B&O, Hays T. Watkins Jr., announced the creation of the Chessie System (incorporated in 1973), …

• Wetzel County

  … which joins the Ohio at "New Martinsville":https://www.wvencyclopedia. … English origin, with Edward Dulin settling New Martinsville in 1773. Reader was … wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2184 in abundance. New Martinsville enjoys the unusual advantage …

• Lewis Wetzel

  … Greenville":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/767 (1795), Wetzel moved to Louisiana Territory, where he was imprisoned in New Orleans for several years on conviction of counterfeiting. He died at Rosetta, near Natchez, Mississippi Territory, in …

• Children’s Home Society of West Virginia

  … , opening offices in Sistersville and Morgantown. In 1978, a new Davis Child Shelter was established in South Charleston through a … . In 1995, the Davis Child Shelter moved to a new facility near Yeager International Airport in Charleston. Similar shelters …

• Kellian V. Rensalear Whaley

  Congressman and Civil War officer Kellian Van Rensalear Whaley (May 6, 1821-May 20, 1876) was born in Utica, New York. His family moved to Ohio, where he attended public schools, and in 1842 moved to "Wayne County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Ned Chilton

  Newspaper publisher William Edwin ‘‘Ned’’ Chilton III (November 26, 1921-February 7, 1987) was born in Kingston, New York, of an old Charleston family. A World War II veteran and a graduate of Yale, he became publisher of West Virginia’s largest newspaper …

• William Edwin Chilton

  … to sue Virginia for a share of the millions of dollars that had been realized from the sale of land to the new federal government in 1784. He lost the 1917 election to Republican "Howard Sutherland":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/647, …

• Wheeling

  … .org/articles/62 and then to the birth of the "new state of West Virginia":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2034. … speech in Wheeling, which began a national Red Scare, and a new city-county building and the Fort Henry Bridge were built. …

• Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

  … historic mission has been the unification of all Christians based on a belief in Christ and in the teachings of the New Testament as the central source of authority. Disciples are ecumenical in spirit and affirm diversity of individual understandings of …

• Frank Keeney

  … Keeney became president of UMW District 17 in 1917. Within three months, 2,000 new members were enrolled, 12 new locals organized, and District 17 had the largest membership in its history. In 1919, he announced his …

• Keith-Albee

  … 3,000 seats, was said to be second in size only to New York City’s Roxy. The ‘‘$2 million temple of amusement,’’ as … of the _Huntington Advertiser_ newspaper. The Keith-Albee was designed by New York architect Thomas W. Lamb, working with the local firm of …

• Benjamin F. Kelley

  General Benjamin Franklin Kelley (April 10, 1807-July 16, 1891) was born in New Hampshire, and moved to Wheeling in 1836. For more than two decades, Kelley was a merchant, and in 1851 he became freight agent for the newly arrived "Baltimore & Ohio …