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• Railroads

  … and traveling on to the Ohio River at Wheeling by 1853. This … was built through the wild New River Gorge, reaching the Ohio in … and in 2016 became the Kanawha River Railroad. The last entry into … to barges on the Kanawha River before the region had rail …

• Dun Glen Hotel

  … Dun Glen Hotel was located in Fayette County on the New River across from the railroad town of "Thurmond":https:// … Alcohol was prohibited in Thurmond proper but flowed freely across the river at the Dun Glen Hotel. That increased business at the …

• Rainbow Gathering

  … in "Monongahela National Forest":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2014, at Three Forks of the "Williams River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1274 in "Webster County":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/949. …

• Rainelle

  … Rainelle. For many years, the Meadow River Lumber Company operated at Rainelle what … . The Georgia-Pacific Company bought Meadow River Lumber Company in 1970 and closed … of Sewell Creek and "Meadow River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles …

• Dunbar

  … stands on the banks of the "Kanawha River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1123 in a rich river bottom previously valued for truck gardening and … to the south side of the Kanawha River, opened as a toll bridge in 1953 …

• Lord Dunmore

  … Fort Dunmore, then down the "Ohio River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1740 to the Hocking River, southwest of present "Parkersburg": … to the mouth of the "Kanawha River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ …

• Raleigh County

  … way. He named "Coal River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org … , on the "Big Sandy River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org … line through the "New River Gorge":https://www.wvencyclopedia … Royal which was on the river. In 1901, the C& …

• Dunmore’s War

  … of surveyors along the "Ohio River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … at the mouth of the "Kanawha River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … different directions, advance up the Hocking River in present Ohio, and attack the …

• DuPont Belle Works (Now Chemours)

  … Belle Works from 1937 to 1946, and the plant remained important in the production of nylon until 1968. Located at Belle on the Kanawha River 11 miles east of Charleston, this plant of the E. I. DuPont Company employed more than 5,000 people at its peak in …

• Eagle Rock

  … landmark in the Smoke Hole canyon of the "South Branch":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/514 of the Potomac River, located near County Route 2 in Pendleton County, a few miles north of Upper Tract. The nearly vertical geologic formation …

• Easton Roller Mill

  … , was powered by a Lane and Bodley 40-horsepower steam engine dating to the 1870s. William C. Ley, prominent in the Cheat River iron industry, purchased the mill from Morris in 1910. He cut back operations in 1930, during the "Great Depression" …

• John Echols

  … .org/articles/1143. He was vice president and general manager of the railroad when the line was completed through the New River Gorge and on to "Huntington":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/751. He left West Virginia and moved to Staunton …

• The Economy

  … .org/articles/166 is largely confined to river bottomlands, a few small plateaus, … waterway, the state is developing its river terminals and public ports to accommodate … shippers. West Virginia's "navigable rivers":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Minter Homes

  … in southern West Virginia. It was located near three major logging streams, Twelvepole Creek, and the Guyandotte and Big Sandy rivers, while the Chesapeake & Ohio, Baltimore & Ohio, and Norfolk & Western railway lines converged at Huntington …

• Folklore

  … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1222, by the American Folklife Center in the New River Gorge and the Coal River basin, and by the "National Coal Heritage Area":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1561 in …

• Moccasin Rangers

  The Moccasin Rangers were a Confederate guerrilla company that operated around the headwaters of the "Little Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1422 during the first two years of the "Civil War":http://www. …

• Monongahela Culture

  … were located along the "Ohio River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … present Moundsville, and along the Monongahela River, north of present Fairmont. Because of … smaller floodplains in the northern Ohio River drainage, the Monongahela people also …

• Monongahela National Forest

  … . In March 1907, the land along the banks of the Monongahela River was devastated by flooding. As a result of this damage and … , at 4,861 feet the state’s highest point. Many major rivers find their headwaters within the forest, including the Elk, Gauley, …

• Monongahela Power Company

  … . In the summer of 1890, Fairmont Electric Light and Power began operating a 30-kilowatt plant on the Monongahela River, providing the city with electric lights. By 1900, the Schmulbach brewing interests of Wheeling acquired control of Fairmont Electric …

• Fools’ Parade

  … a yarn where the lines between good and evil are crystal clear. What follows is a heroic tall-tale chase on rail, on river, and by car down Grubb’s native Ohio Valley, complete with multiple dynamite explosions. The novel was adapted for the screen by …

• Foreman Massacre

  … and abandoned. On September 27, 12 miles down the "Ohio River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1740 from Wheeling, at … up camp. Lynn warned Foreman to move his men off the river trail and to travel along the hilltops. The next morning, …

• Monongahela Silt Loam

  … , Pennsylvania, in 1921. It was named for the "Monongahela River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2018, which drains … loam also occurs in a large region outside the Monongahela River watershed, in parts of several states. The soil derives …

• Forest Fires

  … air and water pollution. There are disproportionately more fires in the southern coalfields, the counties south of the Kanawha River and west of the Bluestone. Absentee "land ownership":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1293 is highest in …

• Monroe County

  … border being its eastern and southern boundary. The "New River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1637 separates Monroe … the 1755 massacre at Baughman’s Fort on the Greenbrier River. The Literary Fund established by the Virginia Assembly in …

• Margaret Prescott Montague

  … cataracts. Montague wrote two stories in 1923, ‘‘Up Eel River’’ and ‘‘The Today Tomorrow,’’ both featuring the mythic lumberman, … of early West Virginia logging camps. According to Montague, Eel River and its inhabitants were the products of the fertile …