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• Cancer Valley

  … nickname ‘‘Cancer Valley’’ was apparently first applied to the Kanawha Valley by _Mother Jones_ magazine. The term expressed the … by regional industry and local municipalities and reflecting the Kanawha Valley’s world leadership in the mid-20th century & …

• Cannel Coal

  … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1365, and "Kanawha":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … the Richmond _Enquirer_ reported that the Kanawha area produced 5,000 gallons of … of wells on the "Little Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia. …

• The Capitol

  … ":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1090 on the Kanawha City side of the Kanawha River. The commission selected the site in the city’s east end, … state’s capitol on the banks of the Kanawha River. _Read the National Register <a …

• James River & Kanawha Canal

  … conflict was over. The James River & Kanawha Canal later became the focal point … the Civil War. The James River & Kanawha Company continued to operate the Virginia … 5, 1880, the James River & Kanawha Company ceased operations and went out …

• James River & Kanawha Turnpike

  … 1809. However, the growing importance of Kanawha salt necessitated a more reliable all … the company’s James River & Kanawha Canal project. Company surveyors located … elected officials in Greenbrier, Fayette, and Kanawha counties formed the Midland Trail …

• Charleston

  … River. The "James River & Kanawha Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org … .org/articles/1178, and others. Kanawha Airport (now "Yeager Airport" … to significantly declining employment in the Kanawha Valley's "chemical industry& …

• CAMC (Vandalia Health)

  … . In 1959, it became the "Kanawha Valley Memorial Hospital":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1140. In 1982, Kanawha Valley Memorial moved to a new … a former golf course in the Kanawha City neighborhood of Charleston. Consolidation of …

• Charleston Gazette-Mail

  … community events, including the annual "North-South football game":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1696, soap box derby, Kanawha River boat races, and the city tennis tournament. In June 1950, the _Gazette_ led a two-day community effort …

• Charleston National Bank

  … ’s coalfields, the bank grew steadily, increasing assets to $500,000 by 1903. It originally occupied a structure on Kanawha Street, now Kanawha Boulevard, then moved to Capitol Street in 1906. The 1906 facility was impressive, standing seven stories tall. …

• West Virginia State University

  … undergone ‘‘integration in reverse’’ with white enrollment, mostly from Kanawha and contiguous counties, increasing to 78 percent of … West Virginia State Community and, in 2009, renamed "Kanawha Valley Community and Technical College":http://www. …

• Kanawha Falls

  … feet at the falls, which cross the Kanawha River in an irregular line. This … the boundary between the New River and Kanawha River ecological systems. The falls prevent … place on the "James River & Kanawha Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Kanawha Records

  Kanawha Records, an outgrowth of Folk Promotions, was probably the first independent company to record authentic indigenous mountain music as performed by contemporary West Virginia musicians. The company, active from about 1963 through 1970, was created …

• Chemical Industry

  … refinery near Clendenin in northern "Kanawha County":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org … declining. The chemical industry outgrew the Kanawha Valley. Many of the chemicals … for production volumes larger than the Kanawha Valley could support. Soon the …

• Kanawha Salt Company

  … with 16 other producers created the Kanawha Salt Company to control production … 1819 crushed all western commerce. The Kanawha Salt Company is sometimes mistakenly … control salt production and marketing. What Kanawha salt makers attempted became common …

• Kanawha Trail

  … during the raid on Drapers Meadows. The Kanawha Trail also followed a portion of … There were numerous Indian villages along the Kanawha Trail until the middle 1600s. Exotic … have been found at Pratt and Marmet, Kanawha County, and Buffalo, Putnam County, …

• Kelly Axe and Tool Company

  … started shortly thereafter. The company later added other edged tools. Kelly Axe was one of the first large industries in the Kanawha Valley and for many years provided jobs for several hundred men and women. The company used some immigrant labor; in …

• City National Bank

  … corner of 36th Street and MacCorkle Avenue in Charleston’s Kanawha City neighborhood was purchased and extensively remodeled as bank … headquarters has since moved to suburban Cross Lanes, the Kanawha City facility remains the bank’s main branch. The …

• Civil Rights

  … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2484, a Kanawha County Republican, was an NAACP lawyer. … the premier department store in the Kanawha Valley. In Bluefield, CORE members sat … at the Sky Chief Restaurant at "Kanawha (now Yeager) Airport":http://www …

• Clay Foundation

  … 2 to the "University of Charleston":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/839 for the Clay Tower, $5 million to the Kanawha County Public Library for a proposed new Charleston library, and $2 million to the University of Virginia School of Law …

• Clendenin Family

  … early settlers of the Greenbrier, Kanawha, and Ohio rivers, came to … .org/articles/1089 and of Kanawha and Mason counties, and the … land along the Elk and Kanawha rivers. In December 1787, Col. … the first justices of the Kanawha County court, as well as …

• George Clendenin

  … in 1771, and George first saw the Kanawha Valley when he accompanied "Andrew … April 1, 1788, and arrived in the Kanawha Valley a month later. As " … Assembly authorized the formation of "Kanawha County":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• World War I

  … plant were built as part of the war effort, though neither saw production before the end of the war. Nitro, a Kanawha Valley community created by the war, experienced a fleeting wartime population boom of 25,000 and remains a major industrial center today …

• World War II

  … quot;:http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/285 of Kanawha County, who later won the National Book … to fuel the war. Built in the Kanawha Valley, the world’s largest " … The U.S. Naval Ordnance Plant in Kanawha County supplied gun barrels for ships and …

• Yeager Airport

  … , construction began in October 1944 on Kanawha (now Yeager) Airport. Seven-hundred-sixty … of fuel used each day during construction. Kanawha Airport was dedicated November 3, … in 1982, 1997, 2001, and 2005. Kanawha Airport was renamed Yeager Airport in …

• Little Kanawha River

  … , Wirt, and Wood counties, the Little Kanawha gathers water from numerous creeks and … also be established along the Little Kanawha. In 1838, Claudius Crozet, the director … /1600 industry developed within the Little Kanawha watershed. The state’s first oil …