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• Coalfield Baseball

  … Stonecoal Giants, Slabrock Indians, Gary Grays, Coalwood Monarchs, and New River Giants. Class D minor league professional teams brought … alternative. Miner Angus Evans once played centerfield for the New York Black Yankees, and Grover Lewis played third …

• Big Bill Lias

  … illegal sale and distribution of liquor during Prohibition. A short sentence in the Atlanta federal penitentiary prepared Lias for a new life in illegal gambling once Prohibition was repealed. When operation of the numbers racket was made a felony in …

• WVU Institute of Technology

  … to tie the institution to the New River area, upstream from Montgomery which … for expansion and the construction of new buildings. It awarded its first baccalaureate … 1970s, including the addition of a new library, engineering building, student center, …

• Libraries

  … of 1,644,419 books. With increased state support and the advent of federal aid, the Library Commission was ready for the new executive secretary hired in 1972, Frederic J. Glazer. Coming from a background of both public relations and public library …

• Arden Cogar Sr.

  … in Hayward, Wisconsin, in 1955. He also competed in Canada and Australia, and in 1965 exhibited his prowess at the New York World’s Fair. Cogar’s woodchopping skills garnered several world records, including a 1978 record in underhand competition for …

• Yeager Airport

  … Field in nearby Institute. This location was deemed inadequate for the current aircraft by the late 1930s, and the search for a new location began. Coonskin Ridge, north of Charleston, was selected in 1940, but the project was delayed by World War II. …

• Lilly Brothers

  … , along with West Virginia banjoist Don Stover (1928–96), made their biggest impact in Boston, where they introduced bluegrass to New England audiences. In this period they recorded for the Event, Folkways, Prestige, and County record labels. In 1970, …

• Laurence Yep

  … , earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and received a Ph.D. from State University of New York at Buffalo. He has taught creative writing and Asian-American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley and Santa …

• The Morgantown Weekly Post

  … -News_ in 1909. The name was changed to the _Weekly New Dominion_ in 1911. The weekly ceased publication about 1918. The … s first daily newspaper. Edited by Justin M. Kunkle, the _Daily New Dominion_ appeared September 7, 1897. The name was shortened to …

• Mormons

  In 1830, Joseph Smith organized the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in upstate New York. The church is commonly known as the Mormon Church, because of the Book of Mormon, which its members consider to be another testament of Jesus Christ. …

• Linsly School

  … , as it was then called, erected a new three-story structure, still standing at 1413 … school became known as Linsly Military Institute. A new building at Thedah Place was erected in … .’’ In 1968, the school relocated to the new Banes Hall on Knox Lane. The …

• Dwight Whitney Morrow

  … Columbia University, Morrow entered law practice in New York City. In 1914, he joined the … run successfully for U.S. senator from New Jersey. He had barely begun his … he died at his home in Englewood, New Jersey. Morrow Library at Marshall University, …

• Randy Moss

  … signing bonus, making him the highest-paid non-quarterback in the NFL. Moss moved to the Oakland Raiders in 2005 and to the New England Patriots in 2007 where he caught a career-high 23 touchdown passes in his first season, still a single-season NFL …

• Literature

  … a vision of common local experience, teaching Appalachian writers that regional everyday life could provide a landscape for new and original work. There have followed several highly regarded literary figures from West Virginia, each with a sense of …

• Mothman

  … dispatch radios, and televisions, as well as automobiles, were rumored, and there were numerous reports of UFO appearances. New York writer John Keel, one of the paranormal investigators drawn to Point Pleasant, connected the stories of strange occurrences …

• Moundsville Penitentiary

  … the choice between the penitentiary and the new state university and chose the prison … , female prisoners were transferred to the new "West Virginia Prison for Women … last prisoners were transferred to the new "Mount Olive Correctional Complex" …

• Locks and Dams

  … and operated for more than 40 years before being replaced by new high-lift dams with dual lock chambers. Since 1824, … ;Buckhannon River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/686, "New River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1637, " …

• Mount de Chantal Visitation Academy

  … a school for girls, the Wheeling Female Academy. The school was first located at 14th and Eoff streets but in 1865 moved to a new building on the former Steenrod farm three miles outside the city. It was named Mount de Chantal after Saint Jane de Chantal, …

• Log Construction

  … techniques in Pennsylvania. The Finns and Swedes were well situated there by the time the Scotch-Irish and Germans arrived in the New World beginning in the late 17th century. In part through necessity, hewn logs were the material of choice for home and …

• Mountain Boy

  … the state legislature voted to move the capital back to Wheeling after the citizens of that city offered to build the state a new and better capitol than the one being used in Charleston. Only in 1885 did the capital return permanently to Charleston, this …

• Mountain Cove Spiritualist Community

  … a ‘‘call to the mountain,’’ where a spiritualist utopia could become a ‘‘new Eden,’’ Scott led some 100 members from a spiritualist circle in Auburn, New York, to the property on the "James River & Kanawha …

• Mountain Party

  … to run as the Mountain Party candidate for governor. Every new party needs a cause, some issue which raises public attention … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1875 and an unresponsive political system. The new party’s name was suggestive of its ‘‘green’’ …

• Logan Banner

  … widow continued the newspaper under her ownership until 1965, when it was sold to a publishing company located in Tennessee. The new company sent publisher Jim Muscia to Logan. He later purchased the paper and operated it for several years before selling …

• Loring Raid

  … lived. After about a month, the return of the Union soldiers from Maryland made the Confederate position untenable. The boys in gray left the valley never to return as soldiers but instead as defeated men to a new state called West Virginia.

• Louie Glass Company

  … until it was sold in 1972, during a time when women were uncommon in the glass industry and rare in top management positions. The new owners, Princess House, had long been a major buyer of Louie Glass for its home party sales plan. In 1978, Louie Glass …