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• Loyal Company

  … West Virginia. By 1754, the Loyal Company had settled about 200 families on its lands, including some along the "New":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1637 and "Bluestone":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/577 rivers in …

• Daniel Bedinger Lucas

  … who had been accused of spying and guerrilla warfare in the North. Beall was convicted and executed on Governor’s Island, New York, in February 1865. Lucas remained in Canada until after the war ended. Shortly after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, he wrote …

• Luna Park

  … from Gallipolis and Point Pleasant stopped to let off passengers. On May 5, 1923, a fire started by welders working on a new swimming pool destroyed most of the park. Although Luna’s owners announced that they would rebuild, the park never reopened. The …

• William Alexander MacCorkle

  … into uneasy compromise with the emerging industrial order. The Republicans who followed were whole heartedly committed to the new age. Republicans took control of the legislature midway through MacCorkle’s term, and his collaboration with them marked a …

• Justus Collins

  … Alabama mining firm, to move to the new ‘‘smokeless coalfields’’ of southern West Virginia. … and Whipple mines were sold to the New River Company, and Collins organized Superior … mines were located in the neighboring New River and Pocahontas fields. In 1929, …

• Alex Mahood

  … first modern office building in southern West Virginia. He established his architectural firm on the penthouse floor of the new building just as the southern West Virginia coalfields exploded in population, wealth, power, and influence. Mahood designed …

• Mail Pouch Barns

  … Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, New York, southern Michigan, and western … were taking over the advertising market, new regulations governed tobacco advertising, and … 1969, the company stopped painting new barn signs. Within a few …

• Malden

  … salt brine in 1808 by the "Ruffner family":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/138. Malden was created as a New England style village called Salt borough in the 1830s, when the Ruffners subdivided and sold lots east of their saltworks at …

• Mammals

  … , but populations declined rapidly, first from trapping, then by habitat destruction. Reintroduced in the 1960s with 23 individuals from New Hampshire, the species has made a modest comeback with reforestation and a decline in trapping for fur. The river …

• Mandolidis Case

  … under a 1936 court decision. The _Mandolidis_ ruling came after three new justices were seated on the five-member court as a … (HB1201) was enacted, modifying the seven-year old decision. The new law softened the impact of the court decision but provided …

• I. T. Mann

  … the Bank of Bramwell, which became a financial pillar of the southern coalfields. Mann visited financier J. P. Morgan in New York in 1901 and in a famous seven-minute interview received backing for an ambitious scheme to acquire coal bearing lands in …

• Manufactured Housing

  … Virginia Manufactured Housing Association, 63 percent of all new housing located in the state in the 40 … purchase these used units. The average price of new units is also much lower than the average prices of new and existing site-built houses. The majority …

• Maps, Atlases, and Gazetteers

  … to have been the first map of the new state of West Virginia that did not … reveals much about the rapid development of new towns, roads, and railroads during the latter … however, were superseded by Rand McNally’s new map of West Virginia produced around 1899 …

• Concord University

  … ,000 was appropriated for a new academic building to replace a … appropriations be used for another new building to be located on … for married students, and a new athletic field were built. Marsh … and residence halls (including the new state-of-the-art Nick …

• Congressional Representation

  The first congressional delegation from the new state of West Virginia was seated when … But its Virginia roots also influenced the new state. In fact, Western Virginia had … , the best party identification for the new state’s senators and representatives was …

• Marion County

  … Virginia House of Delegates to create a new county from parts of Monongalia and … ’s Fairmont Avenue. Prominent among the new generation of business leaders were the … Both disasters were followed by significant new federal legislation intended to improve mine …

• William Casey Marland

  … decided that the much maligned Democratic ‘‘statehouse machine’’ needed a new face to offer the electorate as their next governor. … into the mainstream of society drew national attention. Sadly, his new life ended eight months later when he died of cancer …

• Conrail

  … . In West Virginia, Conrail operated the old "New York Central":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1646 … the service region, and equipment and rail maintenance languished. New management after 1980 and liberalized operating rules allowed …

• Maronite Christians

  … Lebanese Christians in Wheeling at that time was about 300. In 1906, Father Paul K. Abraham offered the first liturgy for the new congregation. By 1922 a second, larger church was built on its present site. On December 19, 1932, a tragic fire destroyed …

• Mountain State Press

  … _West Virginia Hillbilly_ weekly newspaper. Comstock recruited a young Marshall University graduate, Peter Wallace, to help with this new venture, and in February 1978 Comstock and Wallace became the incorporators of Mountain State Press. The articles of …

• Marshall County

  … the Judelson Dryer Company created hundreds of new jobs. An "explosion":https://www. … convicts and the unfortunate, opened a new facility in Glen Dale in 1963. The Hare Krishna community of "New Vrindaban":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Mountaineer Field

  … 41-27 win over Cincinnati. It was the first game of new coach "Don Nehlen":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1633, … the-art video screens in the South and North bowls and a new lighting system for televised night games. In 2003, WVU announced …

• John Marshall

  … party mapping the route across Western Virginia between the James River and the Ohio. The Marshall group traveled down the "New River Gorge":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1641 in wooden boats, and the cliffs at Hawks Nest were known for …

• Paul Marshall

  … in 1977 as Paul D. Marshall & Associates. Marshall published studies of historic buildings and sites, including the 1980 New River Gorge National River cultural resources study. In Charleston, Marshall’s projects include the Glenwood and Breezemont …

• Marshall University

  … . Under his administration, $200 million in new buildings and renovations were completed. … linking Marshall with Huntington's downtown. New programs and degrees were added, including digital forensics and the new schools of Pharmacy, Physical Therapy and …