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• Forests

  … third most forested state behind Maine and New Hampshire. Forests cover approximately four of every … to those of the northern forests of New England; and those in the extreme eastern … , at 44 percent. Only Maine and New Hampshire had more forest cover than …

• Arch Moore

  … the state. He gained national attention by defeating "Jay Rockefeller":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/110, a bright new hope in the Democratic Party. Moore won an unprecedented third term as governor in 1984, despite a stronger than …

• Formation of West Virginia

  … ’’ in August. It provided for a new state called ‘‘Kanawha’’ consisting of 39 … and Jefferson) were transferred to the new state later that year. The new … to justify the dismemberment, in fact, the new border cut diagonally across geographical features …

• Fort Ancient Culture

  … ":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1429 and Shadle Farm on the Kanawha River, at Island Creek and Barker’s Bottom on the New River, and at Man and Gue Farm on the Guyandotte River. There were also early Fort Ancient sites at Roseberry Farm and …

• Fort Boreman

  … a state, June 20, 1863, the fort was renamed for "Arthur I. Boreman":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/614, the new governor and a citizen of Parkersburg. Construction of the fort began in early 1863 to protect the "Baltimore & …

• Ephraim Franklin Morgan

  … in the southern coalfields, relying on the new "West Virginia State Police": … a virulent critic of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. Republican power brokers and party … to the labor law reforms of the New Deal, organized labor had mobilized politically …

• Fort Stanwix Treaties

  … apart at Fort Stanwix, near the present site of Rome, New York. The first was in the fall of 1768, when … , with representatives present from the governments of Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. By this treaty, the Iroquois surrendered title to vast …

• Fowler Maps

  … 1911. He averaged four maps each year in West Virginia, creating views of such towns as Harrisville, Philippi, Cairo, New Martinsville, Morgantown, Bayard, Buckhannon, Weston, and, in a rare journey into the southern coalfields in 1911, Keystone. Bird’ …

• Frederick County, Virginia

  … West Virginia, Frederick was the only one to vote not to join the new state. The earliest recorded land grants were to John and Isaac Van … "Jefferson":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/993 and Berkeley voted to join the new state.

• French and Indian War

  … , and "Mingo":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1830 war parties. Settlers newly planted in the Greenbrier and upper New River valleys were killed, captured, or frightened back across the mountains, while the older settlements in the South …

• Freshwater Institute

  … .org/articles/1154, and other conservation demonstration projects. Some specific projects include an inventory and development of new, cost-effective treatments for acid mine drainage that will help waters return to their healthy states; development of an …

• The Frontier

  … and capturing more than two dozen colonists. The rest fled to safety across the Allegheny Mountains. Settlers filtering into the New River Valley in this period were also rebuffed. The Robert Files and David Tygart families first colonized the future …

• Jennifer Garner

  … Opera Guild. Graduating from Charleston’s George Washington High School in 1990, Garner attended Denison University. In 1995, she moved to New York City, where she secured a part as an understudy in a Broadway production of _A Month in the Country_. She …

• Garnet High School

  … as "The Block," part of the "Triangle District":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2470. The new building included an auditorium; gymnasium; study hall; library; cafeteria; rooms for sewing, mechanical drawing, domestic science, …

• Henry Louis Gates Jr.

  … Black Women Writers_. A cultural and political commentator, Gates writes for such publications as _The Village Voice_, _Harper’s_, and _The New Yorker_. Since 2012, he has hosted _Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr._ (PBS), in which he …

• Horatio Gates

  … command. Throughout his military service, Gates found occasion to visit Traveller’s Rest. He sold the property in 1790 and, before moving to New York state, assembled his slaves and announced that they were free. Horatio Gates died April 10, 1806.

• Donald R. Gaudineer

  … respect. He was a native of New York City and a 1922 … S. Forest Service in Maine and New Hampshire before coming to West … at the Monongahela National Forest included new roads and trails, reforestation, and … . On July 5, 1937, a new fire tower on the Randolph …

• Gaudineer Knob

  … trees more than three feet in diameter and 300 years old. Some of the flora and fauna are similar to that of northern New England and southern Canada. The variety of birds found in summer, especially the wood warblers and four kinds of brown thrushes, …

• Gauley Bridge

  … .org/articles/2245 at the picturesque confluence of the "Gauley":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2096 and "New":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1637 rivers, where the two streams join to form the "Kanawha River": …

• Gauley River

  … along the 104-mile journey to its juncture with the "New River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1637. It meanders … Nicholas County and into Fayette County, where it combines with the New to form the Kanawha River at "Gauley Bridge" …

• Geography

  … were officially added in 1866, and five new counties were created between 1866 and … west of a line drawn from New Martinsville to Morgantown then southward along … navigation. Other major rivers include the New, Gauley, Elk, Cheat, Greenbrier, and Bluestone …

• Geology

  … million to 240 million years ago. Throughout that unimaginably long time, present West Virginia (and indeed, the entire Appalachian area, from New York to Alabama) was covered by or lay close to a shallow sea. The mountains of "Old Appalachia": …

• German Dunkards

  … , Pennsylvania, but left after complaints that they were stern taskmasters. Along with Alexander Mack Jr., they next settled on the New River at Pulaski, Virginia. In 1756, having sold their land at that site, the brothers traveled to the Monongahela River …

• Germans

  … of some Germans already settled in eastern Virginia to make a new start west of the Alleghenies. Also important was the … late 1900s, German-owned corporations, such as Bayer of "New Martinsville":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2266 and & …

• Germany Valley

  … , was opened to the public as a tourist attraction in 1930. The Greer Lime Company began production at Key near Judy Spring in 1960. The quarry has periodically expanded its operations in the New Market Limestone, nearly pure calcium carbonate.