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• Division of Forestry

  … ; administering forest fire agreements with other states; attracting new forest product industries; and providing municipalities with … scientific forestry techniques in West Virginia. In 1961, new legislation reorganized the Conservation Commission as the …

• Grandview Park

  … . The name of the park refers to the panoramic view of the New River Gorge which can be seen from a huge rock atop a … state park until 1990, when it became a part of the "New River Gorge National River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1641, …

• The Great Depression

  … of miners and their families. New Deal legislation encouraged industrial cooperation … www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/804, the New Deal experimented with planned communities … of social security in 1936. The new system required professionally trained social …

• Eleanor

  … own newspaper, the _Melting Pot_, and home economists, a doctor, and public nurses. By 1935, families began moving into their new homes. The town took its name from "Eleanor Roosevelt":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/129, who visited …

• Farm Security Administration

  … as part of Franklin Roosevelt’s "New Deal":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … . One of the most promising of New Deal efforts to address rural poverty … of the exigencies of war and waning congressional support for New Deal reformism.

• National Recovery Administration

  The National Recovery Administration (NRA), an important New Deal agency, was created with the passing of the National … and across the country. The Blue Eagles sports teams of New Martinsville’s Magnolia High School were named for the famous symbol, …

• Abolitionism

  … ;slavery":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/456 in the new territories helped turn this religious movement into a moral … grant statehood unless an emancipation clause was added to the new state constitution. In February 1863, Willey proposed an …

• The Rathbone Well

  … major oil well, was drilled in 1860. William P. Rathbone, a New York City judge and alderman, and his sons, John Castelli … Springs never rose to its pre-war production. The discovery of new fields elsewhere in Wirt and surrounding counties moved the center …

• Ravenswood Aluminum Lockout

  … began in the fall. The union confronted new owners with different ideas; the plant … reopen the plant if it could negotiate new contracts with "Appalachian Power": … customers. In 2021, Constellium, opened a new plant on the site, advertised as …

• Recht Decision

  … Master Plan, the litigation led to sweeping improvements in public education. Hundreds of millions of dollars was spent on new schools, upgraded facilities, and improved curriculum. The school aid formula was modified to provide a more equal distribution …

• Adena

  … to create a crypt within the earthen mound. New interments were either added to existing mounds, or new mounds were started nearby to create clusters of … a settlement was abandoned and a new one established. Interestingly, few settlements contain …

• African-American Coal Miners

  … more than 22 percent in 1930 to about 17 percent in 1940. The Depression and World War II also unleashed new technological and social forces that transformed the coal industry, and stimulated massive "out-migration":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org …

• African-American Heritage

  … the Union, Western Virginians soon formed a new state. Although "Booker T. … and Midwest, including Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, and New York. Others moved to the nearby … make a living in the emerging new order. Partly because of disappointment with …

• Reconstruction

  … return for guarantees of statehood. The new state government’s attempts to … slaveholder control. Much of what the new West Virginians wanted from Reconstruction was … residue of guerrilla warfare. So the new Unionists’ treatment of Confederate sympathizers …

• Red Ash, Rush Run Explosions

  … century occurred March 6, 1900, at Red Ash Mine on New River in "Fayette County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org … tossed people standing outside several feet down the hillside toward New River. It required ten days to restore ventilation and recover …

• Greenbrier River

  … , and from there the river flows in a generally southwesterly direction through Pocahontas and Greenbrier counties before joining the "New River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1637 at Hinton in Summers County. From Durbin to Hinton, the …

• The Greenbrier

  … Europe in 1945. After an extensive post-war refurbishing by New York decorator Dorothy Draper, the Greenbrier reopened in April 1948 … underground facility was concealed by the simultaneous addition of a new hotel wing; both were complete by mid-1962. For …

• Greenland Gap

  Greenland Gap is a scenic 820-foot-deep pass through New Creek Mountain in Grant County. Both sides of the gap are framed by towering cliffs of "Tuscarora sandstone":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/798. The North Fork of Patterson Creek, a …

• Reforestation

  … the state’s total land area. A new inventory in 1961 showed a dramatic increase … , and the construction of thousands of new rural homes. West Virginia is the … densely forested state, ranking behind Maine and New Hampshire. Seven counties have less than …

• Religion

  … century and expanded their mission in the 19th century. Unique to the Northern Panhandle was the development of a new denomination, the "Disciples of Christ":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1171, and Roman Catholicism first flourished …

• Religious Broadcasting

  … , and WYMW. From 1985 to 2019, Huntington’s most famous radio and television preacher was Pastor Darrell Huffman, founder of the New Life Church. He had been carried on INSP (formerly PTL), a national religious television network. When he retired in 2019, …

• Reorganized Government of Virginia

  … military units for federal service, and elected new U.S. senators and representatives to … Virginia in Washington. The creation of a new state remained a central issue. The … of West Virginia was approved. A new legislature was chosen and "Arthur I. …

• Gristmills

  … show a water-powered mill under construction in 1621, although the first American gristmill on record was built in New Amsterdam (New York) in 1634. Fearing Indian attacks, settlers in Western Virginia were slow to build gristmills despite abundant water …

• The Revolutionary War

  … ":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2074 provided the new nation a valuable western buffer throughout the Revolution, … by Indian pressure during the war, particularly in the New, Greenbrier, and Monongahela watersheds. But the Northern and …

• James Tyree Rexrode

  … . After his wife’s death in 1966, he turned to a new art form to occupy his time. Starting out sketching local … the opening of the Virginia Military Institute Hall of Valor at the New Market Battlefield Park, the Maple Festival at Monterey, Virginia, and …