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• Battle of Droop Mountain

  … as well as the last large-scale engagement fought on our soil. The decisive Union victory ended Confederate efforts to control the new state. Between August and December 1863, Gen. William W. Averell led his Union soldiers in three daring raids through …

• Drovers and Livestock Drives

  The emergence of market-based agriculture in the United States during the early 19th century created new opportunities for farmers and merchants. Driving livestock from rural farms to urban markets required passable roads and people to herd cattle, sheep, …

• Joanne Dru

  … ;Wheeling":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1168. She attended Wheeling High School, but at 16 she moved with the family to New York. In New York, she had jobs as a magazine cover girl and was a John Powers model. While she was dancing in a …

• Anne S. Dudley

  … to the Shenandoah Valley. In 1872, Dudley toured New England with Storer College student singers known as … him. In 1879, Anne Dudley moved to New York to marry the Rev. L. … Storer trustee for the rest of her life. She died in Fabius, New York.

• Railroads

  … a dominant commodity as mines opened along the new railway. Competing railroads soon invaded the … entered the coal trade and was building new lines in the Eastern Panhandle and … ’s Creek Railroad, connecting with the New York Central east of Charleston. …

• Dun Glen Hotel

  The Dun Glen Hotel was located in Fayette County on the New River across from the railroad town of "Thurmond":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/721. Local landowner Thomas G. McKell built the hotel in the Southside community in 1901, three …

• Rainbow Gathering

  … of killing the two women, Nancy Santomero, 26, of Huntington, Long Island, New York, and Vicki Durian, 26, of Wellman, Iowa. Beard’s … for an Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and named to _The New York Times'_ list of notable books released in 2020.

• Lord Dunmore

  … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2053) were named for him. Dunmore was born in 1732. In 1770, he was appointed governor of New York, and the following year was named governor of Virginia. In 1772, the Virginia House of Burgesses named two counties in …

• Raleigh County

  … , Virginia, led an expedition down the New and Kanawha rivers, noting rich seams of … by the London Company, visited the "New":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … of two historical dramas, now part of New River Gorge National Park and Preserve; …

• Ramps

  Ramps, a member of the lily family and onion genus (_Allium tricoccum_) and a spring culinary treat, grow from New Brunswick and Minnesota south to Iowa, and in the mountains to North Carolina and Tennessee. In West Virginia, extensive beds of ramps are …

• DuPont Belle Works (Now Chemours)

  … for more than 90 years, pioneered a new industry, commercial chemical synthesis at hyper … such as parachutes and shoe laces. A new clear plastic called Lucite, made at … specialty chemicals but with automation and new technology the work force has fallen …

• East River

  The East River, a New River tributary, begins at the rail yards in Bluefield … , from Bluefield to its juncture with the New River at Glen Lyn, Virginia. Originating in … has come through the mountain gap which the New River makes at Narrows, Virginia, finds in …

• East River Mountain

  … , Virginia, northeastward for 35 miles to the water gap cut by the New River at the Narrows. In between, the mountain is unbroken by any deep … Mountain to the north, flowing from Bluefield across Mercer County to join the New River at Glen Lyn, Virginia.

• Eastern Panhandle

  … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2044 counties were included in the new state to control the "Baltimore & Ohio Railroad& … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/874 until after the Civil War. Two new counties were created within the panhandle in 1866 when & …

• John Echols

  … May 1864, he commanded the Confederate right wing at the Battle of New Market, and he was with Robert E. Lee at Cold Harbor. … general manager of the railroad when the line was completed through the New River Gorge and on to "Huntington":http://www. …

• The Economy

  … of many West Virginians to seek better educational and employment opportunities. During the 1980s, as coal demand weakened again, new local regions of poverty appeared in the coalfields, and employment declined in the chemical, glass and manufacturing …

• Alan Mollohan

  … him into a northern district mostly made up of Mollohan’s old district. Mollohan won 13 of the 19 counties in the new First District and received 65 percent of the vote. In 1986, Mollohan was appointed to the powerful House Appropriations Committee. …

• Food Stamps (SNAP)

  … first food stamps in the nation. The purpose of the new federal program was to provide supplemental income for welfare … (about 17 percent of the population) were receiving SNAP benefits. New policies and work requirements were enacted to reduce that number …

• Foodways

  … The foods of West Virginia are a combination of fast, slow, old, new, from-the-land, and ethnic. West Virginia food habits arose … to a division in Virginia and the eventual formation of the new state. Identification with the North during the Civil War is …

• Fools’ Parade

  … subsequent movie tell the story of three released convicts trying to make a new start with $25,452.36 from prison savings, if they could … his Lhasa Apso dog Rowdy Charlie, making the $750 round trip from New York City in a Yellow Cab. In June 1971, the film …

• The Monongahela River

  … and very famous products of commerce transported on the river was Monongahela rye, a whiskey sold and respected as far downstream as New Orleans. On March 3, 1791, Congress placed a tax on distilled spirits. This enraged the makers, and the short-lived & …

• Monongalia County

  … Academy and Woodburn Female Seminary to the new college. Thus on February 7, 1867, … late 1940s and the continuous stream of new buildings have made Morgantown a leader in … with Pfizer’s Upjohn division, creating a new company, Viatris Inc., which became the …

• Forestry

  … West Virginia the third most forested state behind Maine and New Hampshire. The "logging industry":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/728 grew as well, now cutting second-growth forests. New records were set by 1993, the first time that …

• Monroe County

  … its eastern and southern boundary. The "New River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … Assembly passed the bill to establish the new county on January 15, 1799. It … of various land-holding companies. The new county prospered with the young nation. …

• Montani Semper Liberi

  … motto on September 26, 1863. The joint committee on the state seal incorporated the motto on the front or obverse side of the new state seal, below the image of rock, miner, and farmer. This committee employed "Joseph H. Diss Debar":http://www. …