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• Penn Central Railroad

  … , near today’s Riverside High School. This line continued to Gauley Bridge, then onward to Rainelle and points beyond. Another … Railroad. Through a long and complicated history the branch from Gauley Bridge to Rainelle and beyond had been owned jointly by …

• Pocahontas County

  … ;Cranberry":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1672, "Elk":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2185, "Gauley":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2096, "Greenbrier":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/33, & …

• Nick Joe Rahall

  … Preserve":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1641. A decade later he helped enact legislation creating the "Gauley River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2096 National Recreation Area and the "Bluestone National River" …

• Monongahela National Forest

  … , at 4,861 feet the state’s highest point. Many major rivers find their headwaters within the forest, including the Elk, Gauley, Greenbrier, Potomac, Cheat, and the Monongahela itself. Seneca Rocks, one of West Virginia’s best-known landmarks, is among the …

• Gauley Mountain

  _Gauley Mountain_ was the master work of West Virginia poet "Louise McNeill":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1659. The collection of poetry was published by Harcourt, Brace and Company in 1939, accompanied by a lavish introduction by …

• Geography

  … Kanawha, Guyandotte, Big Sandy, and Potomac rivers have been used for navigation. Other major rivers include the New, Gauley, Elk, Cheat, Greenbrier, and Bluestone. About 78 percent of West Virginia is covered in regrowth forest, with the particular …

• Giles, Fayette & Kanawha Turnpike

  … of wagons and other wheeled carriages,’’ from Pearisburg to "Gauley Bridge":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2093. Begun in … Turnpike (present U.S. 60) at Kanawha Falls near Gauley Bridge. At a point near Fayetteville a separate road, …

• Fish

  … "Kanawha Falls":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1110 and the harsh environment of the New and "Gauley":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2096 river gorges contributed to the isolation and evolution of these endemic fishes, …

• Floods

  … golf course and homes at The Greenbrier. The Cherry River topped its banks and rose another 12 inches. At Camden-on-Gauley, the Gauley River reached an all-time high of 29 feet before the recording equipment was inundated; a visual inspection later put …

• Endangered Species

  … can be found only in the watersheds of the upper Kanawha, Gauley, and New rivers in West Virginia and Virginia. In January … streams, with the world's largest population found along the Gauley River. The small whorled pogonia, a rare orchid with greenish …

• Thomas Dunn English

  … his 1843 ballad ‘‘Ben Bolt.’’ His West Virginia poems include ‘‘The Logan Grazier,’’ ‘‘Guyandotte Musings,’’ ‘‘The Boone Wagoner,’’ ‘‘Gauley River,’’ and ‘‘Rafting on the Guyandotte.’’ Before moving to Lawnsville, now named "Logan":http://www. …

• Exploration

  … , a few miles below the juncture of the "New":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1637 and "Gauley":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2096 rivers in present "Fayette County":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ …

• Fauna

  … deep lake waters typically did not exist here. As dams were constructed on the Ohio River and on the Bluestone, Cheat, Elk, Gauley, Guyandotte, Little Kanawha, Tygart, and West Fork rivers, vast acreages of new habitat were created. Birds, such as " …

• Fayette County

  … in the fall of 1861. Strategically located Gauley Bridge saw repeated action, and the … western section of the county developed as Gauley Bridge and Montgomery grew on the … org/articles/1718, Ansted, Mount Hope, and Gauley Bridge. The "WVU Institute of …

• Filmmaking

  Some of the earliest filmmakers in West Virginia were amateurs. Jerry Galyean, Sam Moore, and ‘‘Gus’’ Capito of Charleston made interesting home movies. Otis Rymer Snodgrass made a travelogue along U.S. Route 60, _West Virginia the State Beautiful_ (1929 …

• William Nelson Page

  … times during the "strike of 1880":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/335. From 1889 to 1917, he was president of Gauley Mountain Coal Company in Ansted and (1905–17) of the Loop Creek Colliery in Page. Secretly backed by capital from Standard …

• Battle of Charleston

  … in a Union victory at the "Battle of Carnifex Ferry":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/971 on the Gauley River in Nicholas County. Federal forces controlled the region until the following summer, when the Confederacy made plans to recover …

• "The Book of the Dead"

  … mid-20th century. She produced "The Book of the Dead" after hearing of the disastrous project and visiting "Gauley Bridge":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2093 and the nearby area of the tunnel. Hundreds of men were killed by …