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• Lake Tight

  … Chillicothe, temporarily forming large lakes and creating new drainage patterns which persist to the present … , followed the course of today’s New River from present North Carolina into … Teays Valley and the present Kanawha and New rivers as far as today’s …

• Television

  … small, but national broadcasting leaders continued to champion the new medium, and entrepreneurs in West Virginia were determined to … it sold all its holdings to Nextstar Media, headquartered in New York, Chicago, and Irving, Texas. Other leading stations …

• Gauley Mountain

  … country stands for the whole history of West Virginia. There is another, much smaller, Gauley Mountain located between the Gauley and New rivers, near Ansted in Fayette County. This mountain summits at 2,547 feet. It is crossed by the "Midland …

• Bridgemont Community and Technical College

  … degrees in technology in addition to associate degrees. A subsequent reorganization of WVU Institute of Technology resulted in a new name, the Community and Technical College at WVU Tech. In 2000, the legislature authorized community and technical …

• Pierpont Community and Technical College

  … allowed the two institutions to briefly share accreditation, they were completely separated in 2008. In 2006 legislation provided for a new name for the Fairmont State University Community and Technical College. In the future it was to be known as Pierpont …

• Mountwest Community and Technical College

  … gradually become independent institutions. As part of the separation, legislation signed by the governor in March 2010 approved a new name, Mountwest Community and Technical College. The college offers more than 50 associate degree programs. In 2012, …

• Welcome to e-WV...

  ...West Virginia’s exciting new online encyclopedia! And please keep in mind that +new is the operative word+. Our encyclopedia’s information content is completely installed – providing authoritative coverage of thousands of subjects, supplemented by …

• David McKinley

  … Mooney":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2430 in the Republican primary for the newly-redrawn Second District. McKinley lost the primary. McKinley is married to the former Mary Gerkin of New Martinsville, and they have four children.

• Robin Jean Davis

  … Davis served as chief justice in 1998, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2010 and 2014. During her time as chief justice, the court approved new rules for the appellate procedure and for juvenile cases. Davis led the court's efforts to address child abuse and truancy and …

• Sago Mine Disaster

  … 's Aracoma Alma No. 1 Mine in Logan County three weeks after the Sago disaster. The fatal accidents spurred a flurry of new laws and tougher regulations. The Sago mine was reopened a few months after the fatal explosion, but International Coal Group later …

• Frontier Communications

  … to 1899, when the Rochester Telephone company was incorporated in New York. The company expanded its business as an independent, … it was the only independent phone company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. After forming subsidiaries and expanding into …

• “Pistol Nell” Walker

  … World War 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 …

• West Virginia Moon

  … it now hangs in the West Virginia Culture Center’s State Museum. Moss spent 10 years at WVU and then taught at University of Delaware until 1998, when he retired. His sculptures have appeared at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and other museums.

• Betty Ireland

  … ":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/352 in the general election. During her term, she focused on the adoption of new technology, including touch-screen voting. She served one term and declined to run for reelection because of concerns about her …

• Marcellus Shale

  … most of West Virginia, as well as parts of Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, and Ohio. The potential of the Marcellus was … point that the gas could be economically extracted, opening up new reserves for development. The Marcellus is the oldest of the …

• George Brett

  … seldom enforced, allows for up to 18 inches of pine tar on the bat from the knob up. After Brett hit a home run against New York, Yankee manager Billy Martin asked the umpires to measure the amount of pine tar on the bat. Brett’s bat had more than allowed …

• Summers County Bobcats

  … known as Hinton High School, the Lady Bobcats won Class AA championships in 1988 and 1992. After the county opened a new school in "Hinton":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/378 in 1994 and introduced the name Summers County High School, …

• Capital Cities

  … to allow the creation of a "new state":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … , and Wheeling’s promise of a new capitol building, resulted in legislation on … on the property. State government occupied a new building in 1885, though it was not …

• Bridgeport

  … ":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1041 (later governor of Virginia) saw the bridge as a port. When Johnson sought a charter for a new town to be built on 15 acres of his land, he called the town “Bridgeport.” The town was chartered in 1816 and …

• Washington's Western Lands

  … Washington seized the occasion to submit a petition to the new Virginia governor, Lord Botetourt, for implementation of Dinwiddie’s 1754 … by the Earl of Dunmore. On December 15, 1772, the new governor executed patents granting lands to a number of officers …

• 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 …

• Bill Campbell

  … Snead took him under his wing, and they remained friends until Snead’s death in 2002. Campbell attended Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire for four years and then Princeton University. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army’s artillery …

• Jim Justice

  … golf tournament that is part of the PGA Tour. A professional sports training facility opened at the Greenbrier in 2014, hosting the New Orleans Saints football team's training camp for the 2014, 2015 and 2016 seasons. Other major projects planned for the …

• Landau Eugene Murphy Jr.

  … , and he began to sing those songs on his own. In 2010, he decided he needed a bigger stage, so he traveled to New York where he auditioned for _America’s Got Talent_. He was selected to perform on stage for the celebrity judges, and his rendition of “I …

• American Mountain Theater

  … building outside of Elkins with a cast made up of Heckel’s family and friends. In 2007, the group moved to a new 527-seat theater in Elkins located in the historic rail yard once occupied by the Western Maryland Railroad. American Mountain Theater was …