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• Nancy Hart

  … , Joshua Douglas, returned from Confederate service, and they settled in Greenbrier County. The 1900 census shows them living in Glade District … Hart died in 1902 and was buried at Manning Knob, in Greenbrier County near the Nicholas County line.

• Shale Barrens

  … Sulphur Springs is important because several prominent botanists discovered the rare shale barren plants there while vacationing at nearby Greenbrier resort. White’s Draft near Alvon and Meadow Creek near Neola are high-quality barrens in the Monongahela …

• Francis Asbury

  … same year, a regular Methodist Society was formed in "Greenbrier County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2168. In … the dedication sermon. He later held sessions of the Methodist Greenbrier Conference at the church in 1792, 1793, and 1796. …

• Ashford General Hospital

  In August 1942 the U.S. Army purchased "The Greenbrier":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/42 hotel in White … monthly dances with live entertainment were held. Today, few of The Greenbrier’s visitors know of the vital role it played during …

• Aviation

  … (1952), Raleigh County Memorial Airport near Beckley (1952), Wood County Airport near Parkersburg (1946), and the Greenbrier Valley Airport at Lewisburg (1968). General aviation airports are becoming increasingly important throughout the state. In 1939 …

• Back-to-the-Land Movement

  … prices. Concentrations of back-to-theland settlers sprang up in the Greenbrier Valley counties of Pocahontas, Greenbrier, Summers, and Monroe, and in the rolling hills and overgrown pastures of north-central …

• Mad Anne Bailey

  … between "frontier forts":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2075. About 1785, she married John Bailey, a "Greenbrier County":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2168 soldier, but she did not give up scouting. Regardless of …

• Baptists

  … and ministers, and discipline of congregations, associations of churches in geographical proximity were needed. The first was the Greenbrier Association in 1800. By 1835, there were four associations with slightly more than 1,000 church members. By the …

• Hellhole Cavern

  … decorated with stalactites, stalagmites, and other features. Presently the longest cave in the state north of the Pocahontas-Greenbrier line, Hellhole is still incompletely explored. Many cavers believe that its aggregate length may exceed 50 miles. …

• John Henry

  … .org/articles/2154, on the "Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1143 near the Greenbrier River in Summers County. These men used sledge hammers to drive long steel bits into treacherous red shale to bore the …

• Barns

  … of whom came to the "South Branch":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/514 of the Potomac, the "Greenbrier":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/33, and other river valleys, constructed barns that show stylistic evidence of their …

• William Wallace Barron

  … state employees would be hired ‘‘regardless of race, creed, color or national origin.’’ At the Southern Governors Conference at the Greenbrier, he firmly told Gov. George Wallace of Alabama that he would oppose ‘‘any and all statements . . . which would …

• Hillbilly

  … , shows a large group of white people with three black servants out for an elaborate picnic in a wooded setting in Greenbrier County. These prosperous people from Lewisburg most certainly knew the word hillbilly as a designation for social inferiors, yet …

• Hinton

  Hinton, incorporated in 1880, is sited at the confluence of the "Greenbrier":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/33 and "New":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1637 rivers. It is the county seat of "Summers County": …

• Short-Line Railroads

  … ;O) south from Romney, and the West Virginia Central (formerly B&O and Western Maryland) serving Elkins. Both have tourist trains as well as freight service. The Durbin & Greenbrier Valley also runs on state-owned track, south from Durbin.

• Bats

  … , it was found in four caves in Pendleton County. Since then, the condition has been discovered in bats in Grant, Greenbrier, Hardy, Jefferson, Mercer, Monroe, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Preston, Randolph, Tucker, and Wetzel counties, with suspected cases in …

• History of West Virginia

  … Virginia hostile Indians destroyed the Greenbrier settlements and repeatedly attacked the … quickly at the English. The Greenbrier settlements were again destroyed, and … into the upper Ohio, Monongahela, Greenbrier, and Kanawha valleys. The treaties, …

• Sinks

  … Pocahontas County, and the Sinks of Sinking Creek in Greenbrier County. Other sinking streams include Culverson Creek in Greenbrier County and Laurel Creek in Monroe County. Milligan Creek in Greenbrier County rises and sinks several times in its channel …

• Sinks of Gandy

  … the _Saturday Evening Post_ in 1941 by Clay Perry recounts the story of four cavers who were trapped in the cave for five hours. The cave is at the base of the Greenbrier Group limestones (Mississippian age) and has about 1.5 miles of surveyed passage.

• Slavery

  … valleys: Shenandoah, South Branch, Kanawha, and Greenbrier. In 1850, only seven counties had … , with most concentrated in Kanawha Salines. Greenbrier County had 1,317 slaves. … and on the limestone soils of Greenbrier and Monroe counties emulated to some …

• Homer Adams Holt

  … was born in Lewisburg. He attended the forerunner of the "Greenbrier Military Academy":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2175 and … his discharge in May 1919 and a stint working in a Greenbrier County lumber mill, Holt returned to W&L as …

• Ambrose Bierce

  … of the Dead,’’ which touched upon the neglected graves of the Confederate dead on the old "Battle of the Greenbrier":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/191 battlefield near Bartow. Ambrose Bierce, who spoke of the Allegheny Mountains as …

• Black Bear

  … been observed in practically all of West Virginia, but are most prevalent in a crescent of counties from Tucker through Greenbrier and Monroe and westward across Kanawha and Boone. "Hunting":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/741 seasons …

• Black Knight Country Club

  … membership. In June 2011, the club was purchased by "Jim Justice":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2350, owner of The Greenbrier resort, who had been a member for many years and wanted to see the club remain open. In December 2017, citing …

• W. E. Blackhurst

  … .org/articles/1261. His popular novels, which retold stories of Cass and the history of the timber boom years in the Greenbrier Valley, included _Riders of the Flood_ (1954), which was his most successful book, _Sawdust In Your Eyes_ (1963), _Of Men and A …