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• Cabin Creek Quilts

  … . The cooperative won cases concerning trade name infringements in the 1990s against Wal-Mart and the Orvis company. A fire, flood, repeated thefts, and vandals never stopped the group. Cabin Creek Quilts was first located in Chelyan, at the mouth of …

• Tygart Valley River

  … /584. The turnpike was traversed by Northern and Southern troops in the Civil War, and in 1861 a major battle was fought at nearby Rich Mountain. West Virginia’s first flood-control dam was built on the Tygart Valley River near Grafton in 1935–38.

• United Mine Workers of America

  … extraordinary struggle of more than 40 years to unionize the state’s coal mines. In 1897, alarmed at the rising tonnage flooding into their markets from nonunion West Virginia, the coal operators of the Central Competitive Field of the North and Midwest …

• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

  … rivers into managed waterways for purposes of flood control and transportation. It is likely … the Corps of Engineers to develop flood-control projects. Since then, there have … and ten local protection projects. The flood-control dams include those at Tygart …

• VISTA

  … domestic service programs, including VISTA. West Virginia received its first VISTA workers in 1965. Quickly this turned into a flood of community organizers, who worked on social, environmental, and economic issues. Often called ‘‘hippies’’ by their …

• Waterpower

  … , including dams at Cheat Lake and at Hawks Nest on New River. In other cases, dams built primarily for navigation or flood control were later fitted for the production of hydroelectricity. A number of such projects were under way at the turn of the 21st …

• James River & Kanawha Canal

  … Company continued to operate the Virginia portion of the canal while competing with the developing railroad systems. In November 1877, a severe flood hit the James River Valley doing great damage to the canal system. On March 5, 1880, the James River & …

• Welch

  … industry":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1364 and the devastating floods of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, particularly the "2002 flood":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/weather/events/25, contributed …

• Jennings Randolph Lake and Dam

  … life and the establishment of a successful trout fishery at the base of the dam. The dam also helps to control flooding along the North Branch. Releases of water for whitewater rafters, kayakers, and canoeists are made from the reservoir on selected …

• West Virginia Highlands Conservancy

  … Wilderness Act. After a decades-long battle, the Conservancy helped to stop the Davis Power Plant project, which would have flooded more than 7,000 acres of wetlands in the Canaan Valley. In recent years, the Highlands Conservancy has joined other …

• West Virginia National Guard

  … Air National Guard has served in a number of capacities, lending aid to West Virginians during natural disasters caused by periodic flooding and to victims of the coal refuse dam break on "Buffalo Creek":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/697 …

• Cheat River

  … through the region. Coal and timber were extracted from the watershed, polluting the river and setting the stage for record flooding. A private dam to generate electricity, completed in 1926 near the state line, created Cheat Lake and a suburban …

• Kanawha River

  … to nine feet, and they were high enough to stop most of the floods caused by backwater when the Ohio River flooded. Finally after a series of dams were installed on the tributaries, high water on the river …

• Weston

  … Lake":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/597 on the "West Fork":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1002 eliminated flooding. New elementary, middle, and high schools were built in the 1980s and ’90s. A new hospital opened in 1972. …

• Wetlands

  … be adjacent to bodies of open water and subject to flooding, or they may be isolated and receive water from ground … and filled for industrial and residential development. Others have been flooded behind locks and dams. Large areas of wetland forests have …

• Wheeling

  … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2155 and the 1936 flood. On March 19, the Ohio River crested at record 55.20 feet, more than 15 feet above flood stage. Other major floods occurred in 1884, 1898, 1907, 1913, "1937":https://www.wvencyclopedia. …

• Keystone

  … population. The saloons and brothels began to close as the population waned, as did the town’s respectable businesses. Floods and fires threatened the community. Keystone received widespread attention in 1999 when the First National Bank of Keystone was …

• Wheeling Island

  … big summer-long crowds well into the mid-1900s. Flooding took a toll on the island, however. … 55.20 feet, more than 15 feet above flood stage. Other major Ohio River floods occurred in 1884, 1898, 1907, 1913, 1937 and 1942. Staunch islanders remained, …

• Herman Guy Kump

  … 10 days in Virginia, studying the Old Dominion’s system of public finance and seeking advice from conservative Democrats Harry Flood Byrd and Gov. John Garland Pollard. He also turned to experts at West Virginia University headed by John Fairfield Sly, a …

• Williams River

  … .org/articles/728 in the watershed came to the attention of lumbermen. In the 1890s, logs were floated down the river in the flood tides of spring to a mill at Camden-on-Gauley. Most of the timber in the Williams watershed was taken out by log train from …

• Lakes

  … primary purpose of these structures is flood control, with secondary purposes including recreation … /articles/428. There are many small flood control lakes, as well. They include … with their movable gates, are not flood control structures but are operated to …

• Wood County

  … inches of rain fell on Limestone Hill, at the southern tip of the county, in about two hours. Devastating "floods":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2200 hit the county almost annually before the completion of a floodwall in Parkersburg in …

• Coal Mine Disasters

  … in 1954 at Farmington, Marion County, killed 16 men at the Jamison No. 9 mine. In the early 1960s, fires, roof falls, and flooding took their toll, but in nowhere near the numbers in previous years. For instance, a July 23, 1966, explosion at the Siltix …

• WVMR

  … 950 square miles of rugged mountain terrain. The station’s value to the county was never more evident than during the major floods of 1985 and 1996, when its round-the-clock broadcasts kept the community informed and unified. WVMR operates by special …

• Lilly Family

  … 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 1885 are still standing where the school used …