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• Whipple Company Store

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

• Whiskey Rebellion

  … in western Pennsylvania and rapidly spread to the back-country of New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia. In Virginia, the counties of Ohio, … that could fetch a top price. Merchants as far away as New Orleans were anxious to acquire it. This demand gave the …

• Battle of White Sulphur Springs

  … 1863, Confederate forces reoccupied "Lewisburg":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1369 and began probing toward Charleston. The new state of West Virginia had just been created, and in August Union forces were dispatched from Winchester via …

• Whitewater Rafting

  … Virginia-based whitewater rafting company. The New River, the largest-volume whitewater river … between Hinton and Fayetteville the "New River Gorge National River": … "Gauley Season." The Bluestone, New, Meadow, and Gauley rivers comprise …

• Widen

  … the company never recovered. Bradley sold the mines to the Clinchfield Coal Company in 1959; soon it was unionized under the new owners. Widen continued to produce coal until 1963, when the mine and the railroad ceased operation. Now Widen is largely a …

• Clarksburg Exponent Telegram

  … /1715. Originally published as the _Culpeper Exponent_, the same name as an associated newspaper in Culpeper County, Virginia, the new newspaper became the _Exponent-American_ in 1915. It became the _Clarksburg Exponent_ two years later. Guy Tetrick, whose …

• Wildflowers

  … and 17 species of sunflowers that are almost all yellowish. The 30 species of asters have mostly white or blue flowers. New England aster is the showiest, with large deep violet-purple flowers, and sometimes contrasting pink or white flowers as well. …

• Kumbrabow State Forest

  Kumbrabow State Forest was created during the "Great Depression":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2155, as were many of West Virginia’s state parks and forests, in response to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration of the " …

• Kyashuta

  Kyashuta was a "Seneca":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/236, born around 1725 on the Genesee River in New York. He died around 1794 in southwestern Pennsylvania. In 1753, Kyashuta accompanied "George Washington":http://www. …

• Willard Hotel

  … 2141 attorney and industrialist "John T. McGraw":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1647. The contractor for both the Willard and the new B & O station was J. Walsh & Son of Baltimore, and the same granite and brick were used on both …

• Willey Amendment

  … Virginia, clearing the way to admit the new state into the Union. In 1861, … , which existed in parts of the proposed new state. Sentiment in the western counties was … others sought to exclude Blacks from the new state entirely. The matter went before the …

• 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 …

• Waitman Willey

  … a seat representing Virginia in the U.S. Senate. Although opposed to secession, Willey was not at first in favor of a new state. He gradually changed his opinion. He proposed the West Virginia Statehood Bill in the Senate and saw to its passage and later …

• Lake Monongahela

  … by damming rivers, temporarily forming large lakes and creating new drainage patterns which persist to the present. Before … level. Erosion eventually opened an outlet south of present New Martinsville, draining Lake Monongahela southward into the ancient …

• Meredith Sue Willis

  … a year as a recreation therapist in New York’s Bellevue Hospital, she earned an … work as an artist-in-residence in New York public schools and in New Jersey. … adjunct assistant professor of creative writing at New York University's School of Continuing and …

• Patty Willis

  … 1920s and 1930s, she was part of the art colony at Provincetown, Massachusetts. She exhibited with the Society of International Artists in New York in 1928, 1937, and 1938, and also exhibited at the 1939 World’s Fair. Willis resided primarily in " …

• Willow Island Disaster

  … The scaffolding had been erected for use in the construction of a new cooling tower at "Monongahela Power Company’s":http://www … from St. Marys. The men were preparing to pour a new layer of concrete when the scaffolding peeled away from the tower …

• Lakes

  … of hydroelectricity for more than a century, creating a picturesque lake just downstream from Gauley Bridge. A dam on New River diverts water through "Hawks Nest Tunnel":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/338 for the generation of …

• Clay Foundation

  … http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/839 for the Clay Tower, $5 million to the Kanawha County Public Library for a proposed new Charleston library, and $2 million to the University of Virginia School of Law to construct Buckner Clay Hall, named for the …

• Emanuel Willis Wilson

  … "Aretas Brooks Fleming":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2193 was resolved in Fleming’s favor. After leaving office Wilson returned to the practice of law and authored a new election law in 1891. He was buried in Charleston.

• Clay Mining

  … clay, which was mined in strip mines as well as in underground mines, was modernized from 1895 to 1915. Under the new mining methods, clay was hauled from the mines by locomotives to giant crushers and moved on conveyors to local manufacturing plants or …

• Land Ownership

  … Meanwhile, West Virginia was created from the northwest part of Virginia in 1863. Industrialization, which began in most parts of the new state in the late 1800s, changed the demand for land and revived interest in old claims. "Timbering":http:// …

• George Robert Latham

  … in "Grafton":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2141 in 1860. At the onset of the Civil War, Latham transformed his new law office into a recruiting station. The troop he formed, Company B, 2nd Virginia Infantry, was ordered by Latham to …

• Jean Lee Latham

  … 1925, Latham taught English at Upshur County High School for three years. She then taught drama and education classes at the Ithaca (New York) Conservatory for one year, earning her M.A. in 1930 at nearby Cornell University. Latham was editor-in-chief …

• Charles Henry Laws

  … , with the "Ku Klux Klan":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1258 marching through Hinton in 1924. Nonetheless, when a new city council was seated in 1927, following the merger of Hinton with nearby Avis and Bellepoint, Laws was among those …