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• Martin Robison Delany

  … . He was the only African-American Civil War officer to be given a field command. He died in Wilberforce, Ohio. In 2017, a new highway bridge across the Shenandoah River in Jefferson County was named the Major Martin Robison Delany Memorial Bridge.

• Demography

  … parts of Western Virginia, as the rugged landscape discouraged plantation agriculture. There were local exceptions in the major river valleys, including the Greenbrier, Kanawha, and Ohio valleys, and in the Eastern Panhandle. Extensive industrial slavery …

• Denmar Hospital

  … Colored Tuberculosis Sanitarium on February 16, 1917, for the care of Black TB patients. Denmar, located on the Greenbrier River in "Pocahontas County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1876, was selected as the location. Denmar was the …

• Point Pleasant

  … https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1123 rivers. "Pierre-Joseph Celoron de … was incorporated in 1833. "River transportation":http://www.wvencyclopedia. … is served by four branch banks, Rivers Health (formerly Pleasant Valley Hospital), …

• Battle of Point Pleasant

  … response to hostilities along the Ohio River that spring, "Lord Dunmore& … ) and journeyed down the Kanawha River to its mouth at Point … 900 warriors crossed the Ohio River above the mouth of the … of their dead in the river. Within a few days, Cornstalk …

• Dickinson Family

  … ;:http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1889 and resident of Bath County, Virginia, had two tracts of land along the Kanawha River surveyed in November 1784. A tract of 502 acres at Campbells Creek included the famous salt spring; Joseph Ruffner purchased …

• Pontiac’s Rebellion

  … forced Pontiac to negotiate peace in 1766 in Detroit after unsuccessfully attempting to convince tribes along portions of the Mississippi River to join the Indian alliance. While visiting near what is now Caholia, Illinois, Pontiac died when knifed by …

• Potomac Highlands

  … ;:https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/241, the "Trough":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/784, "Lost River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1456, and the "Smoke Hole":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ …

• Pottery Industry

  … stoneware was made at Lindside and in Mercer County at East River. During the early 19th century American potters tried to improve … Virginia using this glaze. Newell’s location on the Ohio River permitted local potters to learn about advances made in the …

• Poverty

  … cultural conditions. The mountains peak within West Virginia, so major rivers flow away from the center to the borders and into … are different. In the Eastern Panhandle and the Ohio River Valley, for example, a significant agricultural economy has survived …

• Prehistoric People

  … and sites along the Ohio and Kanawha rivers. The Terminal Paleo-Indian period ( … .org/articles/153 on the Kanawha River. The Middle Archaic period (6000–3000 … Ohio, Kanawha, New, Bluestone, and Guyandotte rivers. During the Protohistoric period (A.D …

• Presbyterians

  … ‘‘church order’’ at ‘‘Potomoke,’’ south of the "Potomac River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1904, perhaps at … to the future development of Presbyterianism westward to the Ohio River. In 1808, the Committee on Missions of the Synod …

• Preston County

  … from 873 feet to 3,216 feet. The "Cheat River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1122 divides the county … in southern Preston County), to connect Winchester and the Ohio River. Over these roads, teamsters carried away "agricultural" …

• Samuel Price

  … www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2168. He was outspoken in favor of internal improvements, especially a rail link from the east to the Ohio River. The voters returned him to the House of Delegates again in 1848 and 1849. As a delegate to the "Virginia …

• Pricketts Fort

  Pricketts Fort was built at the confluence of Pricketts Creek and the "Monongahela River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2018 in present "Marion County":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1504 in 1774 by Capt. Jacob …

• Pringle Tree

  … John and Samuel Pringle lived in the hollow cavity of a big sycamore tree near the confluence of Turkey Run and the Buckhannon River in present Upshur County. The hollow was supposed to have been so big that an eight-foot fence rail could be turned inside …

• Dingess Tunnel

  … was the N&W main line between 1892 and 1904, when a new rail line opened on better grades along the Big Sandy River. The Twelvepole Creek route later was abandoned. The town of Dingess was a busy place while the Twelvepole line was in use, because …

• Proclamation of 1763

  … King George III prohibited all settlement west of the Alleghenies. The Proclamation Line ran along the divide between the eastern rivers and the Ohio watershed, leaving only the Eastern Panhandle of modern West Virginia open to settlement, plus a fraction …

• Sam Dixon

  … Dixon mines soon followed in the New River coalfield, including operations at Scarbro, … and Pennsylvanians, Dixon founded the New River Company. It included the original Dixon … the most controversial operator in the New River field. He died in Price Hill, …

• Prospect Rock

  … west of Berkeley Springs, overlooks the juncture of the "Potomac River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1904 and "Cacapon River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/806 and the states …

• Putnam County

  … county, which straddles the "Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … was discovered on the "Pocatalico River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1972, river travel diminished. With coal mining …

• R. D. Bailey Lake

  R. D. Bailey Lake is located on the "Guyandotte River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/98 near Justice, on … /325, the lake provides flood protection for the lower Guyandotte River basin, including the city of "Huntington":http:// …

• Dreamland

  … that used water, he came up with the idea of a swimming pool. Built on the edge of the "Big Sandy River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/484 where U.S. 60 crosses into Kentucky, Dreamland was an immediate success, partly because it was …

• Nick Joe Rahall

  … what would become the "New River Gorge National Park and Preserve": … enact legislation creating the "Gauley River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles … Area and the "Bluestone National River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Drovers and Livestock Drives

  … food chain between vast Midwestern prairies and Eastern markets. As early as the 1750s, the farms along the South Branch of the Potomac River were well known for their cattle and the families, such as the Pattons, who raised and sold them. As large cattle …