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• Diamond Department Store

  … quot;A. W. Cox":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1661 had merged their resources in 1926 to launch the elegant new store at the edge of Charleston’s business district, on Capitol Street near its intersection with Washington. The name originated …

• Political Corruption

  … foreman visited a Charleston car dealer and bought a new luxury vehicle, paying cash. The foreman had been paid $ … by either gubernatorial appointment or popular vote. All three new justices were Republicans. Some critics question whether West Virginia …

• Politics

  … prompted former Virginia Gov. Henry A. Wise to declare the new state the ‘‘bastard child of a political rape.’’ While … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2155 and Franklin Roosevelt’s "New Deal":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2265 altered …

• Melville Davisson Post

  … indicative of Post’s varied and huge talent. His total output was approximately 230 titles. Post's Randolph Mason is a ruthless New York lawyer, not to be confused with the easy-going Squire Randolph who features as a sidekick figure in the Uncle Abner …

• Potomac State College of WVU

  … A special session of the legislature appropriated $30,000 for a new building. The legislature established an agricultural, industrial, and … purchased for the operation of the agriculture program. The new building also was completed during that year. In …

• Poultry

  … Advantage Foods, a processing operation in Petersburg, which it later closed. Pilgrim’s Pride bought out ConAgra early in the new century, and Perdue acquired WLR. By 2023, West Virginia had 2.1 million head of chickens (excluding broilers), marking a …

• Prehistoric People

  … use of plant foods. Greater regionalization is noted in new projectile point styles. Archaic projectile points were used with … southern half of the state along the Ohio, Kanawha, New, Bluestone, and Guyandotte rivers. During the Protohistoric period (A …

• Presbyterians

  … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2074 settlements in order to form new congregations. It was the first denomination to regularly send … 1491 presented a fertile and challenging home mission. While many new ministers were called to the coalfields, city and …

• Preston County

  … ;:https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2022. The new county was named for James Patton … those that survive became middle schools. One new high school was built for all … the Union sympathizers into a "new state":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Cal Price

  … In 1939, Calvin Price was selected by the president of the National Editorial Association to appear on ‘‘We The People,’’ a New York radio show. He received an honorary law degree from "West Virginia University":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Samuel Price

  … to send him back to the House of Delegates under the new constitution. The session began on January 12, 1852, and he … /1570. He was elected president of the convention that drafted a new constitution for West Virginia, restoring the rights of former " …

• Princeton

  … , the county seat of "Mercer County":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1764, was named for the Battle of Princeton in New Jersey, where the county’s namesake, Revolutionary Gen. Hugh Mercer, had died. When the county was formed in 1837, …

• Dingess Tunnel

  … /articles/1683 (now Norfolk Southern) Railroad in 1892. That route was the N&W main line between 1892 and 1904, when a new rail line opened on better grades along the Big Sandy River. The Twelvepole Creek route later was abandoned. The town of Dingess …

• Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston

  … southwest Virginia. Eight counties of the current Eastern Panhandle were left with the Diocese of Richmond. After the creation of the new state of West Virginia in 1863, the diocesan and state boundaries were different for more than 100 years. It was not …

• Progressive Miners of America

  … Progressive Miners of America. With Joe Ozanic as its president, this new union promised to give more power to local unions and allow … as a result, many miners were afraid to join the new union. The conflict continued until UMW District 17 President Van …

• Joseph H. Diss Debar

  … , Diss Debar was commissioned in 1863 to design the Great Seal. Seeing the assignment in part as an opportunity to promote the new state’s natural resources and economic potential, he created a two-sided medallion whose front depicts a farmer, a miner, the …

• Sam Dixon

  … Dixon mines soon followed in the New River coalfield, including operations at Scarbro … dealer P. W. Sprague, and other New Englanders and Pennsylvanians, Dixon founded the … Cranberry, Prosperity, Harvey, and elsewhere. The New River Company was the giant of …

• Public Health

  … of Salk polio vaccine began in 1953 as a step toward the prevention of paralytic poliomyelitis following a year when 21,000 new cases were reported nationally. The Division of Disease Control with the assistance of a federal grant, began a statewide polio …

• Public Service Commission

  … The reorganization also established the Consumer Advocate Division, with institutional safeguards to guarantee its independence. In 1986, a new division was created within the PSC to provide assistance to public water and wastewater providers. In 2022, …

• Douglass High School

  … the old school was renamed Barnett in honor of one of Huntington’s pioneer African-American ministers. Appointed principal of the new school in 1925, Henry Davis Hazelwood served until his retirement in 1949. His successors were Henry Smith Jones, 1950– …

• Dow Chemical Company

  … Dow, a Midland chemist, pioneered the use of electrolysis to extract bromine and chlorine. He also developed new processes for creating chemical compounds, including chloroform; carbon tetrachloride, an essential ingredient in fire extinguishers, cleaning …

• Draft Animals

  … Draft Horse and Mule Association was formed in 1984, with ownership of draft animals experiencing a revival that has continued into the new century. Kept as a hobby by many, the animals are also in practical everyday work by those sensitive to the impact …

• Draper Collection

  … The manuscripts deal with the frontiers of New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, … materials to annotate and produce a new edition of "Joseph Doddridge’s& … . Thwaites used the collection for a new edition of Alexander Scott Withers’s …

• Droop Mountain

  Droop Mountain, located in Pocahontas and Greenbrier counties in West Virginia, peaks at 3,136 feet. Due to its crouched appearance as seen from the levels of the Greenbrier Valley and Hillsboro, it was originally called ‘‘Drooping Mountain.’’ The first …

• Nick Joe Rahall

  … had depended heavily upon natural resource extraction. In 1978, he authored legislation establishing what would become the "New River Gorge National Park and Preserve":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1641. A decade later he helped enact …