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• Kanawha State Forest

  … residence and picnic shelters were built using native chestnut logs that had been felled by the recent chestnut blight. The CCC also built a dam across Davis Creek to create a small lake. Camp Kanawha closed June 30, 1942, with the onset of World War II. …

• Weston

  … , but Interstate 79 and Corridor H brought new development to the outskirts of town. The building of "Stonewall Jackson Dam and Lake":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/597 on the "West Fork":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles …

• Wetlands

  … have been drained for agriculture and filled for industrial and residential development. Others have been flooded behind locks and dams. Large areas of wetland forests have been cleared and converted to pasture. Today, the federal government under the …

• Wetzel County

  … own electricity generating plant. The "hydroelectric":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/777 facility at Hannibal locks and dam was completed in 1988. Now, it produces 37 megawatts from two units, and serves New Martinsville and one other …

• Civilian Conservation Corps

  … , as well as "Oglebay Park":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1733. The reservoir area for "Bluestone Dam":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/575 was cleared with CCC labor. Educational activities also played a major role …

• Whitewater Rafting

  … . The section of upper Gauley beginning just below "Summersville Dam":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/631 is known for its … some 20,000 raft the Gauley in its 22-day fall dam release season, known as "Gauley Season." The Bluestone …

• Lake Monongahela

  … the ice sheets affected the area by damming rivers, temporarily forming large lakes and … the advancing ice, and later glacial sediments, dammed this river near Pittsburgh. Lake … ponding as glacial sediment choked and dammed the Ohio River. The oldest …

• Winfield

  … www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2155. The paving of the road through town in 1926, the building of the Winfield locks and dam in 1936, and the completion of the Winfield bridge in 1957 contributed to long-term development. Finally, after Interstate 64 …

• Wirt County

  … in Wirt and surrounding counties moved the center of the industry to other locations. The completion of four "locks and dams":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1428 by the Little Kanawha Navigation Company in 1874 enabled the county’s oil …

• Wood County

  … hit the county almost annually before the completion of a floodwall in Parkersburg in 1950 and the construction of locks and dams on the Ohio, including one at Belleville. Wood County has been the home of many prominent personalities. Among them are …

• Lilly Family

  … of present Hinton. The village existed from the late 1700s until 1946, when it was razed due to the construction of the Bluestone Dam. The village site was never actually flooded by lake waters, however. Two or three oak trees planted by John H. Lilly in …

• Little Beaver State Park

  … by white pines offers one of the loveliest swimming areas in the state. The lake was created in 1941, with the damming of Little Beaver Creek by the WPA. Fishermen catch bass, channel catfish, crappies, bluegill, and especially the stocked trout at …

• Little Bluestone River

  … razed but never submerged by the builders of "Bluestone Dam":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/575, was named … its lower reaches have been part of the "Bluestone Dam conservation project":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/575 …

• Logan County

  … /697 February 26, 1972. Eighteen lives were lost at Holden 22, while another 125 lives were lost when a coal waste dam owned by the Pittston Corporation collapsed and destroyed a dozen communities on Buffalo Creek. One of the most significant events in …

• Mammals

  … near deciduous woodlands, and in some areas have become a nuisance. Mammals helped by the wetland conditions created by beaver dams include raccoons, muskrats, and mink. Among the carnivores, two native species, the fisher and the river otter, were …

• Marshes

  … artificial impoundments, and where water flows are impeded by drainage obstructions in low-lying areas, such as an old beaver dam. Because of the rugged topography, marshes cover only about 14,000 acres of West Virginia, a relatively small proportion …

• Mussels

  … for completion of their life cycle, and fish carry them into new areas or to areas previously occupied. Construction of dams eliminates valuable riffle habitat and also inhibits fish movements. Though no true mussels are native to West Virginia, zebra …

• Natural History

  … of water resources due to acid drainage and salt brine spills that killed fish and aquatic plants. The "locks and dams":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1428 on West Virginia waterways are invaluable for commerce and flood control but have …

• Natural Resources

  … ’s water resources. The Ohio, Kanawha, and Monongahela rivers were transformed from free-flowing streams to a series of locks and dams creating one pool after another for the entire length of these streams. Springs are a major water resource in West …

• The North Branch

  … .org/articles/1851, Gormania, and Bayard, West Virginia, and several towns on the Maryland side. The North Branch is dammed upstream from Piedmont, forming the "Jennings Randolph Lake":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1007. The Potomac …

• Northern Panhandle

  … wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1168. Ohio River navigation remains important and is maintained by a system of modern "locks and dams":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1428, of which two are located at New Cumberland and Pike Island. Humans …

• Putnam County

  … until 1930, was slow to expand. A devastating fire in 1928 destroyed one of the main town blocks. After the Winfield navigation dam was completed in 1936 and the new Kanawha River bridge was opened in 1957, the town became a progressive, growing community. …

• Moncove Lake

  Moncove Lake, like other lakes in West Virginia, is a man-made impoundment. It was created by the damming in 1959 of Devil Creek in eastern "Monroe County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2024. The name was coined from ‘‘Mon,’’ the first …

• Arch Moore

  … 1 million in cleanup charges for the "Buffalo Creek disaster":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/697 of 1972, a coal dam collapse that killed 125 people and left thousands homeless in Logan County. The state was left with an eventual debt of …

• Gauley Bridge

  … near the modern highway bridge. The town achieved notoriety during the 1930s with the nearby construction of the Hawks Nest Dam and Tunnel. It was during the "Great Depression":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2155 and hundreds of …