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• Margaret Agnew Blennerhassett

  … lived from 1800 to 1806 in a grand 16-room mansion she and her husband had constructed on an "Ohio River island":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1741 near present "Parkersburg":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1811. The …

• William Crawford

  … of the Continental Army, on their canoe journey down the Ohio River in October 1770 in search of valuable bottomlands. The next … 10,000 acres at the confluence of the Ohio and Kanawha rivers in Mason County. These tracts were registered by Crawford for …

• The Rhododendron

  … _Rhododendron_ plied the Kanawha, Ohio, and Monongahela rivers in 1963 in celebration of the … _Omar_, originally launched by the Ohio River Company of Cincinnati in 1935, … Clinton, Iowa, where it became a river museum. _The Clinton Area Showboat Theatre …

• William Nelson Page

  … (1881–85), as he worked toward linking West Virginia’s New River coal to Virginia iron ore deposits. Page saw the Hawks Nest … –1909), a coal railroad running from Deep Water on the Kanawha River to Norfolk. Moving to Washington in 1917, he worked there to …

• Shepherdstown

  Shepherdstown is located on the banks of the "Potomac River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1904 in " … 12, 1762. Situated at Pack Horse Ford, an ancient Potomac River crossing, Shepherdstown is among West Virginia’s most historic …

• Sternwheel Regatta

  … -old Nelson Jones, son of a prominent river family, approached Mayor John Hutchinson to … on Labor Day on the "Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … the concept. Cook, herself a devoted river person, remained a major force behind …

• Gauley Mountain

  … elevation of about 2,300 feet at a bend in the Elk River near Whitaker Falls to an elevation of 4,520 feet at … another, much smaller, Gauley Mountain located between the Gauley and New rivers, near Ansted in Fayette County. This mountain summits at 2, …

• “Pistol Nell” Walker

  … I, Walker served as a Red Cross ambulance driver with the allied forces in France. She was educated at New River State College, now "West Virginia University Institute of Technology":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1374, and at Columbia …

• The Sesquicentennial

  … ," a poem commemorating the Sesquicentennial. Over three nights, thousands of people gathered at the Capitol and across the Kanawha River to view a 3-D presentation, called “A Century and a Half of West Virginia Pride,” that was projected onto the …

• Judy Bonds

  … spent most of her life in the Coal River Valley region of West Virginia, and … Marfork Hollow. In 1998, Bonds joined Coal River Mountain Watch, an organization opposed to & … the position of outreach director of Coal River Mountain Watch in 2001. She fought …

• Washington's Western Lands

  … down to the mouth of the Tennessee River. Washington seized the occasion to submit … of the mouth of the Little Kanawha River, present Parkersburg. After consultation with his … associates proceeded overland to the Ohio River, then downriver to the mouth of …

• The Summit Bechtel Family National Scout Reserve

  The Summit Bechtel Family National Scout Reserve is located on 10,600 acres of the New River Gorge near Mount Hope. The reserve is home to the National Scout Jamboree and the Boy Scouts's newest high adventure camp. The Boy Scouts of America chose the …

• Jim Justice

  … ":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1153, and in 2011, the company bought the historic Flowerdew Hundred plantation on the James River. The plantation, which Justice's company put back on the market in 2017, was the site of one of the earliest …

• Paul Wissmach Glass Company

  … when the company's namesake, a German immigrant in New York City, saw an advertisement for land along Ohio River and recognized the opportunity for industrial development. He had previously been importing stained glass from Europe. Wissmach joined with …

• Ostenaco

  … major role bolstered the Cherokee claim to ownership of land south of Ohio River and west of Kanawha River, and gave the Cherokee Nation an effective bargaining stance when the southwestern Virginia lands were considered …

• Alderson Lion

  … Mr. French instructed one of his employees to take the cubs to the river and drown them. Susan Bebout, the wife of a local blacksmith, was at the river getting water and offered to take the cubs. She kept one and …

• Elm Grove Stone Arch Bridge

  … Suspension Bridge":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1228, which opened in 1849, and carries traffic over the Ohio River. _Read the National Register <a href="https://catalog.archives.gov/id/86535927" target="_blank"> …

• Snowstorm of October 2012

  … rain took longer to change to wet snow, especially in the river valleys around Elkins and Buckhannon. Heading west, the rain continued … of the remaining snow pack. Strong rises occurred on the headwater rivers, but there was no flooding. Yet, after a hot …

• Battle of Shepherdstown

  … to the rear and crossed the Potomac River into Virginia (now West Virginia) at … bluffs of the Virginia bank of the river, Confederate artillery opened with a thundering … dusk two Union regiments charged through the river and up the opposite bank, scattering …

• Mullens

  Mullens, at the junction of Slab Fork Creek and the "Guyandotte River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/98 in "Wyoming County":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1381, was incorporated on September 17, 1912. It was named for …

• McCoy’s Fort

  … in the attack on McCoy’s Fort. The American victories at Fort Donnally and McCoy’s Fort not only preserved the New River-Greenbrier settlements but also contributed to the shift to a more offensive strategy toward the Indians on the part of the Virginia …

• Henderson Hall

  Henderson Hall is a grand antebellum mansion overlooking the Ohio River near "Williamstown":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1279, Wood County. It was the home of five generations of the Henderson family, who had earlier occupied a log …

• Battle of Charleston

  … engaged a withdrawing force along the James River & Kanawha Turnpike at Camp Piatt, … barn on the Ruffner estate along Kanawha River in Charleston’s present East End. … that carried present Washington Street across Elk River and cut the bridge cables to …

• Vulcan Bridge

  … Southern) at a time when passenger trains served transportation needs. No road was built on the West Virginia side of the river and only a footbridge connected Vulcan to the road on the Kentucky side. After rail passenger service ended, this bridge was …

• Snowstorm of January 1978

  … rain. The rain and high winds caused rapid snowmelt. Many rivers went into flood. The most serious flooding was along the … quot;Tug Fork":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/789 Rivers. After the storm abated, flood waters remained as temperatures …