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• Frederick Hurten Rhead

  … 1936. Rhead created other Laughlin tableware designs as well, including the popular Virginia Rose and Harlequin, a colorful successor to Fiesta. Rhead worked for the rest of his career at Homer Laughlin, moving to New York shortly before his death.

• Red Ribble

  … was eight inches high and up to four feet long. By 1919, Ribble had moved to the small community of Prince on the New River in Fayette County. Relocating to Mount Hope by 1920, he continued to record images of southern West Virginia until late 1957. It …

• Battle of Rich Mountain

  After the decisive defeat of Confederate forces on June 3, 1861, at Philippi, Brig. Gen. Robert S. Garnett, the new Confederate commander, established two defensive positions, at Laurel Hill and Rich Mountain, near present Elkins. Suspecting that the 20, …

• Ridge and Valley Province

  … along a 38-mile straight line from Capon Springs, "Hampshire County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/152, to New Creek, "Mineral County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1801. Many of the ridges in the Eastern Panhandle, …

• Davis Grubb

  … completing high school. In 1939, he went to New York City as a page for NBC and … radio plays, alternating for the next decade between New York and Philadelphia, where he worked for an … until, near the end, he returned to New York, where he died of cancer at …

• Ritchie County

  … www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/271, by the new name, Harrisville. The first settler of … the Borden Milk Company and its New York advertising agency. Ritchie County was … countryside, and from time to time new wells are drilled. While Ritchie County …

• Ritchie Mines

  … million; 11 years later it is supposed to have sold for $2,000. An explosion caused the mines to be closed in 1873. A new owner resumed mining in 1885, but the mine was abandoned in 1909. Today the mine site is part of the Ritchie Mines Wildlife Management …

• Ritter Park

  Ritter Park, a 75-acre municipal park located on the south side of "Huntington":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/751, is more than a century old. Most of the land, 55 acres, was originally purchased by the city in 1908 as the site for a …

• River Transportation

  … of Ohio Valley products such boats moved to the west and to New Orleans. Flatboats were used to ship bulk products downstream until after … org/articles/2018, and even on a short stretch of the New River at Hinton. There were three major types of steamboats: …

• Guyandotte

  … ":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1740 rivers as the new village of Guyandotte. A map showed six streets, three … ":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/753 establishment of his new town on the Ohio just downstream from Guyandotte in 1871 …

• Roane County

  … of Kanawha, Jackson, and Gilmer counties. The new county was named for Judge Spencer … Patrick Henry. The citizens of the new county chose New California (later Spencer) as … Spencer High School were consolidated into a new Roane County High School in 1993. …

• Robert C. Byrd U.S. Courthouse

  … 4 million federal appropriation paid for the land, architectural design, and construction. Architects Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill of New York designed the building. Original plans included 10 stories topped by a silver, perforated steel dome, which would …

• Gypsy Moth

  … Massachusetts. The first major outbreak occurred in 1889 and since that time, gypsy moth populations have moved steadily from New England toward the southwest. Gypsy moth caterpillars cause damage to the forest by defoliating and stressing trees. This …

• Rock Climbing

  … .org/articles/937, the "New River Gorge":http://www. … sandstone cliffs that line the New River Gorge. By the mid- … the area regularly. Part of New River Gorge National River, the … . Twenty miles north of the New River Gorge, the cliffs surrounding …

• Rock Lake Pool

  Rock Lake Pool, located in "South Charleston":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/518, was created in the 1930s from an abandoned limestone quarry. The 200-by-400-foot pool was one of the largest concrete-bottom pools in the United States. …

• Rock Springs Park

  … parks, its development was connected to the street car system. A new bridge over the "Ohio River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … were sold at public auction in 1974 to make way for the new road and Ohio River bridge. The Rock Springs carousel, a …

• Jay Rockefeller

  … richest man in the world, was born in New York City, June 18, 1937. At the … he enrolled at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, where he became interested in Far … been spent on Rockefeller’s campaign. The new governor had to deal with heavy snowfalls …

• The Hale House

  … ). Dr. Hale’s residence was across the street on the northeast corner. The Hale House burned in 1885 making way for a new and finer hotel, the "Ruffner":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/140, which occupied the same corner until 1970.

• John P. Hale

  Historian, physician, and businessman John Peter Hale (May 1, 1824-July 11, 1902) was born at Ingles Ferry in the New River Valley of Virginia, the great-grandson of the legendary "Mary Draper Ingles":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/849. …

• Jack Rollins

  … traveling with a carnival. He also worked at Penn Station in New York, starting as a baggage handler. Rollins wrote song lyrics as a freelancer before joining music publishers Hill and Range in New York in 1948. In 1949, he wrote the lyrics to ‘‘ …

• Granville Davisson Hall

  … .org/articles/58_, became the main source of information on the formation of the state. Hall served in several different positions in the new state government. He was elected the first clerk of the House of Delegates on June 20, 1863. In 1865, he was …

• Roman Catholics

  … /1231, petitioned Rome to create a new diocese. On July 19, 1850, … as the initial boundary of the new diocese. The outbreak of the … War and the creation of the new state of West Virginia in … , close to 100 churches, a new cathedral, one college, 43 elementary …

• K. K. Hall

  … born at Greenview, Boone County. Hall spent 47 years on the state and federal benches. Hall worked his way through New River State College (now "WVU Institute of Technology":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1374) at Montgomery and later …

• Halliehurst

  … mother of U.S. senators. Mrs. Elkins had admired a Rhineland castle she saw in Germany, and architect Charles T. Mott of New York City was commissioned to design Halliehurst based on the memory of his client. The house is made of wood with heavy timber …

• Anne Newport Royall

  … veteran. Needing an income, she resumed traveling and wrote, published, and marketed 11 volumes picturesquely describing people and places from New England to Western Virginia to the deep South. In 1831, she settled in Washington, where she began a weekly …