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• Hamlin

  … , and about 30 houses. Hamlin’s 20th-century history was marked by a disastrous courthouse fire in 1909, the construction of a new courthouse in 1911, and the construction of a modern courthouse in the 1960s. Carroll High School was lost to fire in 1949 …

• Ruffner Family

  … delegate to the Wheeling Conventions of June and November 1861. In 1863, he was appointed a major general of militia for the new state of West Virginia. His second wife, Viola Knapp Ruffner, was credited with being the mentor of "Booker T. Washington …

• Ruffner Hotel

  … the Charleston Hotel Company. The Ruffner was grand in every way, and it came on the scene in Charleston with the splendid new Victorian state capitol, also built in 1885. With 180 bedrooms, the Ruffner as originally built featured a spire on one corner …

• Rural Free Delivery

  … T. Strider was hired to carry the mail from nearby Uvilla, and I. Keyes Strider was chosen to operate out of Halltown. The new service debuted on October 1. This effort was so successful that 15 more routes were soon established in other states. By the end …

• Saddle Mountain

  … the name applied to the section of New Creek Mountain that includes the distinctive notch … a giant saddle carved into the ridge. New Creek Mountain continues in an unbroken line … . Dolls Gap passes through Saddle or New Creek Mountain at an elevation of 2 …

• Sagebrush Roundup

  … program has been held at Bunner’s Ridge near Fairmont, and has featured guest appearances by Wilma Lee Cooper, Little John Graham, and Buddy Starcher. The new _Sagebrush Roundup_ consists of Saturday night concerts which are not broadcast.

• Hampshire County

  … Deaf and Blind":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1086 (established in 1870). Reduced in size by the creation of new counties during the 18th and 19th centuries, Hampshire County today incorporates 644.5 square miles. With a stable population …

• Saint Francis Hospital

  … group of Franciscan Sisters arrived from Williamsville, New York, on December 13, 1913, to … , the Franciscan Sisters were recalled to New York, and the Sisters of Saint … plans called for the construction of a new patient tower, parking garage, medical office …

• St. George’s Chapel

  … of the Poor. The chapel was abandoned about this time, when a new church was built in "Charles Town":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … in his ‘‘Personal Recollections of the War by a Virginian,’’ in _Harper’s New Monthly Magazine_, in July 1866.

• St. Joseph’s Hospital

  … were invited to Parkersburg to run the new hospital. Sister Immaculate Feeney was the … ’s administrators decided to build a new hospital. A building committee of hospital … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1740. The new six-story brick structure was built …

• St. Lawrence Boom and Manufacturing Company

  … Cecil Clay of Philadelphia began timber purchases in the valley and the company was organized the next year. Clay also laid out a new town, Ronceverte, at the location selected for the company’s sawmill. The name of the company came from an early name for …

• St. Mary’s Medical Center

  … the doomed _Titanic_, coming eventually to New York state where they learned English … by a national hospital chain. The new group, Genesis Affiliated Health Services, … hospitals are now unified under a new, single healthcare system, Mountain Health Network …

• Salem University

  … were added to the curriculum. A new academic calendar was developed, replacing … Academic departments were consolidated and a new mission statement was developed, emphasizing the … University; in June 2001, a new partnership was established with Informatics, …

• Soupy Sales

  … hosting children’s shows in Cincinnati, Detroit, New York, and Los Angeles. ABC aired _Lunch … weekday morning show, debuted in 1964 from New York, and went into national syndication … Huntington Civic Center). Sales lived in New York City, where he died.

• Agriculture

  … West Virginia were adventurous individuals and families seeking a new life in a new land … standard rootstocks, but now 90 percent of new plantings are on dwarf or semi-dwarf … be from grapes grown in the state. New and non-traditional enterprises such as …

• John Peter Salling

  … elder Howard on the trip. At "New River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … to explore that region. They followed the New until the river became too dangerous to … , and Frenchmen. Transported as captives to New Orleans, they were imprisoned as spies, …

• ‘‘Salt Pork, West Virginia’’

  … in 1946. There are at least three versions by Jordan, the most recent recorded by Mercury records, October 29, 1956, in New York. All three versions feature a driving beat, reminiscent of the rhythmic thump associated with rail travel, and each ends with …

• Saltpeter Mining

  … have been mined for saltpeter by Unionists during the Civil War. Following the war, saltpeter mining was discontinued as new technologies rendered the mines obsolete. Saltpeter was produced by simple but effective methods. Earth was shoveled into wooden …

• Sampson Sanders

  … 1849, all his slaves were freed regardless of age. They also were given cash, equipment, and legal assistance to start new lives. They migrated northward as a group, settling in Cass County, Michigan, where descendants live today. These families retained …

• Sandstone Falls

  … the largest waterfall within the "New River Gorge":http://www. … .org/articles/1641, spans the New River where it is 1, … obstacle to boat travel on New River. He wrote, ‘‘A . . . formidable … of the ‘Great Falls’ of New River.’’ Marshall and his fellow …

• Sandy Creek Expedition

  … the Indians had rampaged through the forward settlements in the New, Greenbrier, and Tygart river valleys. Scores of settlers were … www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2371, left Fort Frederick on the New River near Ingles Ferry on February 18. William Ingles, …

• Department of Agriculture

  … assigned to the commissioner the responsibility to regulate farm products. In the 1920s and 1930s, the Department of Agriculture, guided by new state laws, acted to assist farmers in marketing. One early project was the state "apple":http://www. …

• Abel Morgan Sarjent

  … tracts. By 1807, Halcyons, numbering in the thousands, extended from Louisville to Pittsburgh. Dissension soon weakened the new religion. A few younger Halcyons broke from Sarjent’s control. Accounts of extreme fasting and bizarre behavior, linked with …

• Satellite Television

  … and satellite service. Satellite TV companies now also provide some local channels, a feature missing in the past. The new satellite dishes are tiny by comparison to their predecessors, pervasive but inconspicuous features of the rural countryside and city …

• Alderson Broaddus University

  … growth with the addition of eight new campus structures. Through the commitment and … college was beginning to implement a new set of educational programs—distance learning, … that Alderson Broaddus not enroll any new students for the Fall 2023 semester. In …