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• Loring Raid

  … 1193, federal forces had occupied the strategic Kanawha Valley from Gauley Bridge at the … 5,000 federal occupation troops in the Kanawha Valley, half of the force, were … Loring to begin an attack on the Kanawha Valley from the Confederate stronghold around …

• Luna Park

  … J. B. Crowley in 1912 on the north bank of the Kanawha River in Charleston. The amusement park occupied seven acres on what … Luna Park, as the Luna Park Historic District. Bounded by Kanawha Boulevard, Delaware Avenue, Main Street, and Glenwood Avenue, the …

• Malden

  … /articles/1901. In 1840, the landmark Kanawha Salines Presbyterian Church was constructed by … coal mines. Race relations in the Kanawha salt works were remarkable for … constructed nearby, and the saltmakers’ fine Kanawha Salines Presbyterian Church stand as …

• Paul Marshall

  … graduated from Stonewall Jackson High School in 1948. A fourth generation glass cutter, he worked at Libbey-Owens-Ford in Kanawha City until 1965. He learned architecture while working as a draftsman for two Charleston firms, Martens & Son and Zando, …

• Marshall University Graduate College

  … West Virginia University. Before that, the Kanawha Valley had had no institution … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/823 and other Kanawha Valley chemical concerns. Representatives from … . It was soon obvious that the Kanawha Valley needed a graduate institution …

• Walter Martens

  … the house of Mrs. Cyrus W. Hall at Ruffner and Kanawha Boulevard and Torquilstone for the son of "Governor … and Belvedere Apartments, both in Charleston. With the ambitious Kanawha Boulevard still under construction, Martens completed a larger Deco- …

• National Bank of Commerce

  … Commerce, and in 1930 it became a national bank, the National Bank of Commerce. In 1964, the bank purchased the old Kanawha County library property and in 1968 built the 17-story building then known as Commerce Square. This now houses Huntington Banks at …

• A. W. Cox

  … as he was known, passed the state teacher’s examination and began a brief teaching career in Mingo County and later in Clendenin, Kanawha County. While working part-time in a Clendenin store, A. W. resolved to make retailing his life’s work. He went …

• Nitro

  … explosives producer, had selected the "Kanawha River":https://www.wvencyclopedia. … wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1948 and "Kanawha County":https://www.wvencyclopedia. … and a stable population. As the Kanawha Valley chemical industry waned in …

• The North-South Game

  … wins for the North, and three ties. Since 1983, a North-South boys basketball game also has been played each year in the Kanawha Valley, except 1993, when the game was played in Paden City. As of 2023, South has dominated the basketball series, 30-9. …

• Daniel Boone Hotel

  One of West Virginia’s premier hotels, the Daniel Boone was built in Charleston on the site of the state’s first governor’s mansion and the temporary "‘‘pasteboard capitol’’":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/947 which had been quickly …

• Nylon

  … in 1935 in a DuPont laboratory in Delaware, was brought into commercial production through intermediate materials supplied by the company’s Kanawha Valley plant. Nylon was the first of a new family of wholly synthetic textile fibers, and although the name …

• Owens-Illinois Glass Company

  … factories were located in Fairmont, Huntington, and Kanawha City. All three based their manufacturing operations … a plant at the upper end of Kanawha City, which is now part of & … , beer bottles. By the 1930s, the Kanawha City plant was the largest bottle- …

• The Mine Wars

  … limited success, but the union did gain an important foothold in eastern Kanawha County. In April 1912, miners along Paint Creek and Cabin Creek in Kanawha County walked off their jobs, and the great Mine Wars began. …

• Dickinson Family

  … had two tracts of land along the Kanawha River surveyed in November 1784. A … and moved their business to the "Kanawha Salines":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … William Jr. largely founded the "Kanawha Valley Bank":http://www.wvencyclopedia. …

• John Quincy Dickinson

  … Dickinson, and others, established the "Kanawha Valley Bank":http://www. … gas, and oil properties in Boone, Kanawha, Fayette, and Raleigh counties. He … Virginia Bankers Association (1894) and the Kanawha Coal Operators Association (1904). John …

• Dunbar

  … is located along Interstate 64 in "Kanawha County":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … the rapid economic development of the Kanawha Valley during the early 20th century. … and commercial community. Due to the Kanawha Valley's declining "chemical …

• DuPont Belle Works (Now Chemours)

  … Works (now Chemours), a mainstay in the economy of the upper Kanawha Valley of West Virginia for more than 90 years, pioneered a … in the production of nylon until 1968. Located at Belle on the Kanawha River 11 miles east of Charleston, this plant of the E …

• Fort Lee

  … https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2075 near the confluence of the Kanawha and Elk rivers as a defense against the "Indians … The site, at the present corner of Brooks Street and Kanawha Boulevard near downtown Charleston, offered a good spot for a …

• Cass Gilbert

  … Virginia "state capitol":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/943, which was built from 1924 to 1932 on the Kanawha River in the east end of Charleston. Born in Zanesville, Ohio, Gilbert attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for …

• Giles, Fayette & Kanawha Turnpike

  … Begun in 1838, the Giles, Fayette & Kanawha Turnpike was completed in 1848. Starting … at Sewell, joined the Giles, Fayette & Kanawha Turnpike and continued with it to … early turnpikes, the Giles, Fayette & Kanawha was overtaken by the railroads in …

• Edgewood Country Club

  … , is the oldest private country club in West Virginia. The first clubhouse and golf course were situated on land extending from the Kanawha River north to Central Avenue and east to Delaware Avenue on the city’s west side. When this acreage was subdivided …

• Edwards Moonlight

  … traveled from there on dance cruises up and down the Kanawha River. When Vice President Charles Curtis came on September 27, … as a restaurant. The _Edwards Moonlight_ was brought home to the Kanawha River in 1999 and operated until 2003 as the General …

• William Henry Edwards

  … admitted to the New York bar in 1847. Edwards came to the Kanawha Valley to inspect lands his family had purchased sight-unseen from … produced a book of Edwards family genealogy. William Henry Edwards died at his home in Coalburg, Kanawha County.

• Sternwheel Regatta

  … race between five sternwheelers on Labor Day on the "Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1123. Prodded … extended weekend. Sternwheelers docked along barges moored in the Kanawha, dwarfed that year by a special guest, the grand …