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• Department of Mines

  … of $191,040, not including the salary of the chief of the department. In 1985, the department was merged into a new Department of Energy, later renamed the Division of Energy. The current Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training was established as …

• Mingo

  … to refer in the late colonial period to members of the Six Nations who lived outside of the Iroquois homeland in upstate New York. Euro-Americans adopted the term and eventually standardized the spelling as Mingo. Thus Shikellamy, whom the Six Nations …

• Mingo County

  … industrial era. These newcomers, arriving in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, brought a wide ethnic diversity to the new county. They included "Italians":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/924, Russians, "Poles":https://www. …

• Pendleton County

  … of a bank until 1937, reduced many residents to barter. The county benefited from federal projects during Roosevelt’s "New Deal":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2265, including the building of 300 miles of improved roads and increased …

• Penn Central Railroad

  … the Pennsylvania Railroad and the "New York Central":http://www.wvencyclopedia. … On February 1, 1968, the Pennsylvania New York Central Transportation Company was created … had been solvent, in 1970 the new corporation entered bankruptcy. From its …

• Pentecostalism

  Pentcostalism is a relatively new religious movement, having its beginnings, most authorities say, in 1901, with the teachings of Midwestern preacher Charles Fox Parham. He taught that speaking in tongues, or glossolalia, would be the movement that would …

• George William Peterkin

  … 1878–1902, he visited every county in West Virginia, expanding the influence of the church throughout the state. He consecrated 37 new churches, conducted 49 ordinations of priests in West Virginia and four in Brazil, confirmed 5,078 communicants in West …

• Peters Mountain

  … "East River Mountain":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1990; the two mountains are separated by the water gap cut by the New River at the Narrows. Throughout most of its length, the crest of Peters Mountain is formed by the same hard white …

• Petersburg

  Petersburg, the county seat of "Grant County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2147, is situated on the "South Branch":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/514 of the Potomac River near the Hardy County border, 30 miles from …

• Philippi Covered Bridge

  … a 1938 renovation the wooden deck was removed and replaced with a new concrete deck supported by steel girders and two new intermediate concrete piers. Originally, the bridge was an important component of the Beverly …

• Francis Harrison Pierpont

  … such as Willey to delay the immediate declaration of a new state, which he believed to be unconstitutional. On June … necessary Constitutional consent. Following the "establishment of the new state":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2034, he …

• Pilgrim Glass

  … /articles/1040, with its sales office in New Jersey. Knobler, who had left Virginia Polytechnic … as a salesman for Trenton Potteries in New Jersey. One of his suppliers was Tri … -State’s modest facilities. He opened the new plant on Walker Branch Road in …

• Maceo Pinkard

  … o’ Mine,’’ in 1919 after moving to New York. Three years later, he provided the … with an all-Black cast that introduced a new dance, the Charleston. Pinkard wrote for show … spotlighted in an all-Black program at the New York World’s Fair. His most famous …

• W. Page Pitt

  … Page Pitt (November 19, 1900-September 13, 1980) was born in New York City. He moved with his family to Shinnston, " … , Ohio. He later earned a master’s degree at Columbia University in New York. In 1926, when Pitt arrived in Huntington to join the …

• Place Names

  … , named for an important battle at Princeton, New Jersey, during the Revolutionary War. ( … : Mt. Nebo, St. Marys, Corinth, Medina, New Vrindaban, and of course, Bethlehem. … also and include London, Berea, and New Martinsville. Classical names include Troy, …

• Deforestation

  … resulted in major changes not just to the landscape but to all aspects of life. Towns sprouted up like wildflowers, new legislation and case law buttressed industrial expansion, and agriculture began its long decline. Many farmers thought that the country …

• Martin Robison Delany

  … . He was the only African-American Civil War officer to be given a field command. He died in Wilberforce, Ohio. In 2017, a new highway bridge across the Shenandoah River in Jefferson County was named the Major Martin Robison Delany Memorial Bridge.

• Pleasants County

  … agriculture":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/166 was the main source of income. The oil boom of the 1860s brought new opportunities. The first gusher was struck at Horseneck, near the Wood County border in the Hendershot oil field. Because oil …

• Delta Tau Delta

  … until 1895. Seventy years later, 13 students at Bethany formed a new local fraternity and petitioned to become a chapter of Delta Tau Delta. Meanwhile, new chapters of the fraternity had organized at colleges and universities …

• Demography

  … /1349 began to grow quickly and attracted many "African-Americans":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/27 to the new state and a variety of European immigrants, especially from southern and eastern Europe. Many African-Americans worked in the …

• Denmar Hospital

  … were used by the hospital farm and dairy. Access to the new hospital was provided by the "Chesapeake & Ohio … replace the deteriorating lumber company structures. Patients were moved into the new facility in January 1939. A wing to the building was …

• The Department of West Virginia

  … of Union forces in the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1193. It included all Union forces from the new state of West Virginia and that part of Maryland west of the Alleghenies, and was 23,000 men strong. The department …

• DeSales Heights

  … 1867, the sisters established a benevolent school for poor children within the city. On July 16,1900, they took possession of a new home and school located on the outskirts of Parkersburg on Garfield Avenue. They named the red and brick monastery DeSales …

• Battle of Point Pleasant

  … Revolutionary War. Most historians disagree, given the nature of the struggle and the lapse of time before hostilities began in New England. While many Virginians were upset with Dunmore’s dissolution of the House of Burgesses in 1773, they still fought …

• Dialect

  … regions suffer similar aspersions, including the Deep South, the ‘‘Down East’’ section of Maine, and certain boroughs of New York City. Individuals respond differently, some reacting defensively with others finding a source of pride in the comforting …