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• Willow Island Disaster

  … ’s":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2015 Pleasants Power Station, adjacent to the Willow Island Power Station on the Ohio River downstream from St. Marys. The men were preparing to pour a new layer of concrete when the scaffolding peeled away …

• Lakes

  … control, with secondary purposes including recreation, river flow augmentation, fish and wildlife conservation … each on the Kanawha and Monongahela rivers. These dams, with their movable … org/articles/1436 on the Stony River, and "Stonecoal Lake": …

• Lakin Hospital

  … and patients were integrated. An act of the legislature in 1974 changed the name to Lakin Hospital. Located on the Ohio River about eight miles from Point Pleasant in "Mason County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1563, Lakin for many …

• Clay Mining

  … weathering of limestone and shale and from transported clays deposited in rivers and swamps during the marine geologic age. These clay … to local manufacturing plants or to barges on the Ohio River or, later, to the railroad for transporting to other parts …

• Layland Mine Explosion

  In 1915, the New River & Pocahontas Consolidated Coal Company operated a series of drift mines at Layland, "Fayette County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2245, eight railroad miles north of Quinnimont. At 8:30 a.m. March 2, a blast …

• Clendenin Family

  … settlers of the Greenbrier, Kanawha, and Ohio rivers, came to the region from central … in America. Archibald lived on the Cowpasture River in what is now Bath County, … bottom land along the Elk and Kanawha rivers. In December 1787, Col. George Clendenin …

• Climate

  … to around 24 degrees in the southwestern lowlands. Average snowfall varies widely. It ranges from near 20 inches in the river valleys of the southwestern lowlands to over 125 inches in elevations above 2,500 feet in the northern and central mountains. …

• Climax Locomotives

  … engines had been used in West Virginia. Some companies that preferred Climax were Sewell Lumber at Landisburg (five narrow-gauge engines), Elk River Coal & Lumber at Swandale (four, one of which was the last Climax in service in the United States), and …

• Clover Archeological Site

  The Clover archeological site is located on a high terrace on the Ohio River in the Green Bottom Wildlife Management Area, 20 miles north of Huntington. The site was listed on the "National Register of Historic Places":http://www.wvencyclopedia. …

• Wirt County

  … centrally located along the "Little Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … /713, for whom the "Hughes River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … Oil Springs Run on the Hughes River and earned a small fortune selling …

• Bob Wise

  … political skills. The Second Congressional District Wise represented is among the largest east of the Mississippi, stretching from the Ohio River to Harpers Ferry. As a member of Congress, Wise held leadership posts including at-large whip, regional whip, …

• Coal

  … Period coal beds, assigned to seven formations or groups. From the oldest to youngest, these are the Pocahontas, New River, Kanawha, Allegheny, Conemaugh, Monongahela, and Dunkard. They are divided into a southern, low-sulfur coalfield and a northern, …

• Abraham Wood

  … By 1635 he was living on the Appomattox River where he began purchasing land. Wood, … in 1646 at the falls of the Appomattox River on the southwestern frontier called Fort Henry … (an indentured servant) in 1673. The New River, visited by Batts and Fallam, was …

• Coal & Coke Railway

  … mountainous terrain on the route from Roaring Creek (now Norton) in Randolph County to the new town of Gassaway on the Elk River in Braxton County. When the Coal & Coke Railway was completed, it provided a much needed north-south route through the …

• Wood County

  … into northern and southern sectors by the "Little Kanawha River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1422. The county was … , the construction of refineries, the completion of the Ohio River Railroad in 1884, and the development of a vigorous & …

• Jay Legg

  … home at Harden’s lumber camp in "Clay County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1277. Jay worked on the Elk River, driving logs downstream to Charleston. For some reason he returned home early on February 10 and was fatally shot by his own …

• Coal Industry

  … the new and growing towns along the Ohio River and its tributaries. By 1860, 25 … the port of Norfolk, reaching the Ohio River near Huntington in 1892. The C& … 1880s. Pioneer operators in the "New River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ …

• World War II

  … and tanks, while West Virginians built patrol boats and other ocean-going vessels on the Mason County shores of the Ohio River. Re-floated and completely rebuilt, USS _West Virginia_ returned to action in 1944. Providing considerable gun support in the …

• Lewis and Clark Expedition

  … bordering on the Missouri and Columbia rivers. Jefferson chose Meriwether Lewis, an experienced … set out down the "Ohio River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles … a population comparable to the Ohio River country, Lewis took notes on rainfall …

• Coal Mine Disasters

  … Only 37 were listed as ‘‘Americans,’’ meaning white natives since black miners were identified as Negroes. After the explosion, the New River Company (which also owned the nearby Parral mine, home to an explosion that killed 23 in 1906) renamed the mines …

• WSAZ

  … , the station returned to local ownership. The call letters were changed briefly to WTKZ and then to WRVC, standing for ‘‘River Cities.’’ In addition to the network programs, WSAZ in its early years offered live programming. Musician David Miller, known …

• Andrew Lewis

  … the Greenbrier Valley and named the river for the vexatious Greenbriers that abounded … to lands east of the "Ohio River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … /articles/838 east of the Ohio River, and the Virginians’ victory encouraged westward …

• WVU Parkersburg

  … to public higher education for local students. At its founding it was the only West Virginia public college on the Ohio River between Huntington and Wheeling. In 1963, the college became the first of a series of Appalachian Centers established by WVU …

• Lewis County

  … , one year later the county purchased the farm of pioneer settler Henry Flesher, at the confluence of the West Fork River and Stonecoal Creek. The new county seat was initially called Preston, then briefly renamed Fleshersville, and finally, in 1819, " …

• Lewisburg

  … "Greenbrier Military School":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2175. The Greenbrier Valley branch of the "New River Community and Technical College":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1638, and "Carnegie Hall":http:// …