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• 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

  … ":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1563, which he helped to found in 1804. He was appointed as one of the new county’s justices and elected as its first representative to the General Assembly. William Clendenin held a commission as major during …

• Lebanese and Syrians

  … ., a national pioneer in volume purchasing, distribution, and merchandising and the first West Virginia-based corporation listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Other retailers of humble origins grew into multi-store chains such as Gabriel Brothers, Ammar …

• Wind Power

  … The environmental community is split regarding wind power, enticed by its lack of conventional pollution but troubled by these new concerns. In 2004, Congressmen "Alan Mollohan":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2009 and "Nick Rahall& …

• Winfield

  … . In 1928, a disastrous fire destroyed an entire city block. The post office, bank, and newspaper office were all lost. A new bank was built, but it failed in 1931 during the "Great Depression":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2155. The …

• Wirt County

  … lubricant for steam engines. In 1840, William P. Rathbone, a New York City judge and alderman, along with his sons, … loss of future production, was extremely costly. The discovery of new fields elsewhere in Wirt and surrounding counties moved the center …

• Bob Wise

  … to Texas when he was accepted by the University of Houston. He transferred from Houston to the Tulane University School of Law in New Orleans, and worked nights as a waiter while earning a J.D. Upon graduating in 1975, Wise returned to Charleston and …

• Women’s Lives

  … migrants from the Deep South and immigrants from southern and eastern Europe came to West Virginia in search of the new jobs. For rural women, however, the employment opportunities were few. Unlike certain other Appalachian states, where the extensive …

• Wonderful West Virginia

  … s death on August 9, 2005, Sheila McEntee became editor. Since 2015, the Division of Natural Resources has contracted with New South Media of Monongalia County to publish _Wonderful West Virginia_ magazine. <a href="http://www.wonderfulwv.com/& …

• Charles Lee

  … in the war at the 1758 Battle of Fort Ticonderoga, New York. He subsequently fought under Burgoyne in Portugal (1762) … Lee was captured by the British during Washington’s retreat through New Jersey. Whatever his motives, before being released in a prisoner …

• Coal

  … Pennsylvanian 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 …

• Abraham Wood

  … .org/articles/408 in 1671 and "James Needham and Gabriel Arthur":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1620(an indentured servant) in 1673. The New River, visited by Batts and Fallam, was known for many years as the Woods River.

• Coal & Coke Railway

  … to Charleston. Construction on the new segment of the Coal & … ) in Randolph County to the new town of Gassaway on the … & Michigan (later the "New York Central":https://www. … first coal originating on the new line was shipped from Charleston …

• Maryat Lee

  … of 2,000 for five nights. It was widely published. Later, the social and cultural disruptions of the 1960s spawned street theater in New York, and Lee became one of its leaders, founding SALT (the Soul and Latin Theater) in East Harlem, using local people …

• Wood Products Industry

  … /articles/2025 reported the development of a new or expanded forest products facility each … West Virginia had attracted several of the new wood products plants being built by … face veneer to the hardwood plywood. The new plants use low-grade lumber for …

• Coal Industry

  … articles/1143 wended its way through the New and Kanawha coalfields and connected Richmond … 1880s. Pioneer operators in the "New River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org … and deep financial resources to the new Fairmont Coal Company. Clarence Watson’s …

• William Robinson Leigh

  … On returning to the United States, Leigh established a studio in New York, where he worked as an illustrator for _Scribners Magazine_. … Leigh took a train excursion with the artist Albert Groll to New Mexico. Enamored with the region and its inhabitants, he …

• World War II

  … as Women Airforce Service Pilots, nine graduated. Katherine Thompson, of Pocahontas County, became the state’s first WASP. Flying new and unproven aircraft within the continental United States and Canada freed male pilots for combat missions in Europe. As …

• Coal Mine Disasters

  … identified as Negroes. After the explosion, the New River Company (which also owned the … mines to make it easier to attract new workers, with Stuart becoming Lochgelly and … workers. As the 1920s rolled on, new state and federal regulations, along with …

• WVU Parkersburg

  … . Previously the college had been located at an old elementary school on Emerson Avenue in Parkersburg. Additions were made to the new structure in 1974 and 1989. The Caperton Center for Applied Technology was dedicated in 1999. The total enrollment in …

• Lewis County

  … West Fork River and Stonecoal Creek. The new county seat was initially called Preston, … West Virginia’s creation in 1863, the new state government resumed the asylum project … drive of half of America’s population. New motels and restaurants now operate on …

• Coal Mine Mechanization

  … much of their independence at the working face. Unfortunately, the large amount of coal dust, created by the new cutting machines and distributed throughout the mine by mechanized ventilation, increased the probability of explosions. In the 1920s, the …

• John L. Lewis

  Unionist John Llewellyn Lewis (February 12, 1880-June 11, 1969) was president of the "United Mine Workers of America":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/835 from 1920 until his retirement in 1960. He was born in Lucas, Iowa, the son of an …

• Coal River Navigation Company

  … to the structures. The river reached 46.87 feet in Charleston, more than 16 feet above flood stage. After the war the new state of West Virginia reorganized the Coal River Navigation Company, and repairs were made on the locks and dams. However, the …

• Lewisburg

  … /articles/2175. The Greenbrier Valley branch of the "New River Community and Technical College":http://www.wvencyclopedia. … ":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/196. Lewisburg celebrates New Year’s Day with "Shanghai":http://www …