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• Kanawha Valley Community and Technical College

  Kanawha Valley Community and Technical College was an independent member of the … name of the institution was changed to Kanawha Valley Community and Technical College by … was 2,241. On January 1, 2014, Kanawha Valley and "Bridgemont Community and …

• Washington's Western Lands

  … south of the mouth of the Little Kanawha River, present Parkersburg. After consultation with … acres on the south side of the Kanawha in present Mason County. Washington’s … and commissioned surveys up the Great Kanawha in order to exercise those warrants. …

• Abolitionism

  … the ‘‘Ruffner Pamphlet,’’ published in 1847. "Henry Ruffner":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/139 of Kanawha County proposed gradual emancipation and attacked slavery on economic, rather than moral, grounds. This moderate viewpoint claimed …

• African Methodist Episcopal Church

  The African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church originated in 1787 when Black worshipers, led by Richard Allen and Absalom Jones, left the mixed-race Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to establish the Bethel A.M.E. Church of Philadelphia, the …

• African-American Education

  Early Black education in West Virginia developed through a combination of forces: self-help efforts; the aid and support of benevolent White people; support from the U.S. Freedmen’s Bureau and missionary associations; and the activities of public school …

• African-American Heritage

  … 1920s, chapters of the "Ku Klux Klan":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1258 emerged in Logan, Mercer, and Kanawha counties and elsewhere. Moreover, racial injustice before the law also prevailed, as in several cases of Black men accused of …

• Red House Shoal

  The Red House Shoal is located on the "Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1123 near the town … , the State of Virginia began blasting and excavating shoals in the Kanawha River including the Red House shoal. The blasting at Red …

• Redeemers

  … Party was composed of groups that historian John Alexander Williams labeled the ‘‘Redeemers, Regulars, Agrarians and the Kanawha Ring.’’ The Redeemers, largely former Confederates whose philosophies reflected rural and antebellum values, were strongest in …

• The Greenbrier

  … Sulphur Spring. The area remained remote, however, until made accessible in the 1820s by the "James River & Kanawha Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/978. In the ensuing antebellum years the resort’s reputation was firmly …

• Greene Line

  … Line boats, headquartered in Cincinnati, operated on the "Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1123 from then … largest side-wheeler ever to offer regular service on the Kanawha River. In 1904, the Greenes acquired the Cincinnati, …

• Regionalism

  … plants scattered from Hancock County to Wayne County. The Kanawha and Monongahela valleys developed as industrial centers as well, … the Midwest and Pittsburgh. In the corridors of the Upper Kanawha, Teays, and lower Ohio River valleys, the affinities were …

• Red Ribble

  … May 14, 1878-December 27, 1967) was born in Blacksburg, Virginia. For nearly 40 years, he traveled Fayette, Raleigh, Kanawha, Wyoming, Boone, and Nicholas counties in West Virginia to photograph coal miners, coal towns, family reunions, club events, church …

• Otis Rice

  … 2003) was born in Hugheston, "Kanawha County":http://www.wvencyclopedia. … McCoys_; _Frontier Kentucky_; _Charleston and the Kanawha Valley_; _History of Greenbrier County_; … –95); vice chairman of the Kanawha County Bicentennial Commission (1986–90); …

• Leonard Riggleman

  College president Leonard Riggleman (April 16, 1894-May 19, 1983) was born in a cabin in Randolph County. A mountain farm boy, educated in a one-room school, he passed the uniform teachers exam in 1913 and taught three years before leaving to study for …

• Ritchie County

  … and "timber":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/728 industries led to the construction of railroads, including the Cairo & Kanawha (the C&K, also known as the Calico), the Pennsboro & Harrisville, the Harrisville Southern, and the …

• Ritchie Mines

  … -gauge railroad was built to the mine. The line was later rebuilt, extended, and operated as the Cairo & Kanawha Railroad, affectionately known as the Calico Railroad. Grahamite was first discovered in West Virginia and later found in the American …

• River Transportation

  … operated on the Big Sandy, the "Kanawha":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1123 and "Little Kanawha":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … for many years on the Great Kanawha River, departed Charleston in 2004. …

• Guyandotte

  … a frequent port of call for steamboats traveling the Ohio River and a busy stagecoach stop on the "James River & Kanawha Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/978. The village boasted 40 homes, five stores, a non-denominational …

• Roane County

  … and several tributaries of the "Little Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … in the north. Wirt, Calhoun, Clay, Kanawha, and Jackson counties border Roane County … March 11, 1856, from parts of Kanawha, Jackson, and Gilmer counties. The new …

• Robert C. Byrd U.S. Courthouse

  Dedicated on May 28, 1998, the Robert C. Byrd United States Courthouse in downtown "Charleston":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1089 was the first courthouse to use federal design guidelines requiring separate and secure corridors for …

• Cecil Roberts

  … Roberts Jr. was born October 31, 1946, in Cabin Creek, Kanawha County. A sixth-generation coal miner and a fiery orator, … UMWA District 17, which covered Boone, Logan, Mingo, Lincoln, Wayne, Kanawha, Clay, and parts of Raleigh and Wyoming counties. Five …

• Spanky Roberts

  … Tuskegee Airmen during "World War II":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1353. He was born in London, "Kanawha County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1103, the son of Spencer and Estella Roberts. He graduated from Fairmont’ …

• 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. …

• Jay Rockefeller

  … Appalachian Youth, becoming a social worker in Emmons, "Kanawha County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1103. Fighting … registration from Republican to Democrat and filing as a Kanawha County candidate for the "House of Delegates" …

• William Starke Rosecrans

  … , 1842, and served until 1854 as a lieutenant of engineers. As a civilian he worked in 1855–57 in "Kanawha County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1103 as superintendent of a "cannel coal company":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …