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• McKinley’s Palace

  … as McKinley’s Palace. Requiring six years to build (1914–20), the mansion was the gift of Johnson Camden McKinley to his new bride, Agra Bennett McKinley. Born in Parkersburg, McKinley came to Wheeling in 1893, and by 1908 had become a millionaire coal …

• The Courts

  … -year terms and may be non-lawyers. Decisions in magistrate court may be appealed to circuit court, where an entirely new trial is conducted. Cities and towns may establish municipal courts. They are administered locally and are limited to the enforcement …

• Louise McNeill

  … , the true and ominous magnitude of the unleashing of the atomic bomb. Also published later in her life was _Hill Daughter: New and Selected Poems_ (1991), a compilation underscoring the strength and vitality of the entire body of her work. This book is …

• William Jennings "Billy" Cox

  … 150 recordings ‘‘Sparkling Brown Eyes’’ and ‘‘Filipino Baby’’ became country music standards. Several songs celebrating the "New Deal":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2265 have attracted scholarly attention. Cox, who became known as the …

• McNeill’s Rangers

  … at Staunton, Virginia. At the end of the war, Jesse McNeill and 30 men surrendered to Union troops on April 24, 1865, at New Creek (now Keyser), thus ending the exploits of the partisan band. Probably never numbering more than 100 men at any time, they …

• Newspapers

  … , editors changed their mastheads to reflect the name of the new state, although some delayed the change for months. Notable … brought substantial increases in population and the establishment of new towns. Immigrants, many of whom were industrial workers, …

• Crafts Movement

  … from several rural counties were taught new designs using brightly colored fabrics to … Virginia Parkways Authority at Beckley. The new century ushered in MountainMade.com, … and cooperatives across the state signal a new chapter for crafts marketing in West …

• Niagara Movement

  … . When an attempt to bridge these differences in a conference in New York in January 1904 failed, Washington’s critics concluded that … in 1907, Oberlin, Ohio, in 1908, and Sea Isle City, New Jersey, in 1909. The 1910 meeting never materialized, and the …

• Bruce Crawford

  Journalist Bruce Crawford (December 5, 1893-August 15, 1993) was born in Norton, Virginia. He spent his boyhood in Fayette County, before his family moved back to Norton for his high school years. After a brief stay at West Virginia University and service …

• Nitro

  … Because of political objections to any company receiving such a large contract, on January 17, 1918, the War Department hired a New York engineering firm to build the plant using DuPont’s preliminary plans, then engaged Hercules Powder to operate it under …

• Michael Cresap

  … in 1764 at Philadelphia. The following year, Cresap and his wife occupied a new stone house in Oldtown, which he had built, a structure that now … ill during the march and ensuing battle and started home to recuperate, but he died in New York City.

• Norfolk & Western Railway

  … the Virginia-West Virginia state line, the new N&W constructed the 75-mile New River Extension northwest from Radford, Virginia, to Pocahontas, Virginia … Pocahontas name soon applied to an entire new coalfield, which lay mostly within West …

• George Crumb

  … , and hammered dulcimer. Crumb’s imaginative musical scores are characterized by meticulous notation, incongruous juxtapositions, new performance techniques, and highly refined timbral nuances. The Charleston _Sunday Gazette-Mail_ named George Crumb …

• John C. Norman Jr.

  … in 1950. In 1954, Norman received an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. After an internship and residency in New York, he served aboard the aircraft carrier _Saratoga_ in 1957–58 before completing his surgical training at the University of Michigan. …

• The Culture Center

  … constructed to showcase the Mountain State’s artistic, cultural, and historic heritage. The center became the home of the new West Virginia Department of Culture and History (now Arts, Culture & History), including its arts and historic preservation …

• The Cultural Landscape

  People who settle new areas create cultural landscapes, and usually do so without realizing the lasting impact they will have. Cultural landscapes include all the changes humans make to natural landscapes. People modify the shape of the land’s surface, …

• The North-South Game

  … Warner (Seattle Seahawks), and Robert Alexander (Los Angeles Rams). The first North-South Game attracted only a small crowd on New Year’s Day, 1934, and ended in a scoreless tie. _Charleston Gazette_ sports writer Frank Knight, who during the classic’s …

• Dan Cunningham

  … seat as their prisoner. When Judge B. F. Keller issued sweeping injunctions against union organizing efforts in the New River coalfields in 1902, Cunningham was responsible for serving warrants and arresting violators. In performing his duties, he was …

• Richard Currey

  … Fellow in Literature and writer in residence at the University of New Mexico. He was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts … Virginia. He won the Bravo Award for Literary Excellence in New Mexico and the Charles H. Daugherty Humanities Award in West …

• Phyllis Curtin

  … Center under Leonard Bernstein and with the New England Opera under Boris Goldovsky. She … including all major Mozart heroines and many new works. _Life_ magazine devoted three pages … of Jonathan Wade_. More than 50 new works were written expressly for her, …

• Northern Panhandle

  … state was created in 1863. Near "New Cumberland":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … , and about 620 feet at "New Martinsville":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … , the Palace of Gold at "New Vrindaban":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Dagmar

  … and Huntington Business College. During World War II, she and her husband, Angelo Lewis, moved to New York City. In New York, she modeled sweaters and began her acting career on Broadway in _Laughing Room Only_, a show …

• Northwestern Virginia Railroad

  … to Parkersburg. This junction point generated the new town of Grafton. To protect the … main line the charter specified that the new line, the Northwestern Virginia Railroad, was … , was made chief engineer for the new railroad and quickly completed a survey …

• Daniel Boone Hotel

  … of first-class hotel architecture of the 1920s and 1930s. The capitol soon moved to Charleston’s east end, but the new hotel nevertheless became for many years the unofficial headquarters of West Virginia state government. The Daniel Boone served as a …

• Northwestern Virginia Turnpike

  … profit and was able to meet its financial obligations throughout the 1850s. The Civil War was unkind to the Northwestern Turnpike. The new state of West Virginia was slow to assume responsibility, and by the end of the war the road was nearly impassible. …