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• Summers County

  … .org/articles/1386 was no longer viable, and—most importantly for Hinton—in 1954–55 the diesel locomotive replaced coal-fired steam power on the C&O. The railroad no longer required hundreds of workers for its Hinton maintenance operations. The city’s …

• Summersville

  … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/972. Summersville was occupied by both Northern and Southern troops late in the war, and suffered a devastating fire that destroyed much of the town. Summersville also was the site of a daring escape by Confederate spy " …

• Supreme Court of Appeals

  … an employer. The court also narrowed common law definition of employment at the will of the employer in ways that constrained the ability to fire workers (<em>Cook v. Heck’s</em>, 1986). As of 2023 there have been 82 justices of the Supreme …

• Brick Industry

  … to make the finest bricks, was used until the supply was depleted; then gas, and later coal, were used to fire or harden the bricks. Successive generations of these families started companies that operated "flatboats, then keel boats":http://www …

• Sutton

  Sutton is the county seat of "Braxton County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/644. It was settled in 1792 by Adam O’Brien, from Bath County, Virginia. In 1809, John D. Sutton settled at the confluence of Granny’s Creek and the "Elk …

• John Brown

  … the leadership of Col. "Robert E. Lee":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1340. After a last stand in a small fire-engine house, Brown and his surviving followers surrendered. He had lost ten of his 18 men, and himself was wounded. They had …

• Taylor County

  … ;Carr China factory":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/988 in Grafton closed down in 1953, and the building was destroyed by fire in 1966. The county’s newspaper from 1870 to 1975 was the _Daily Sentinel_, published in Grafton. In 1975, it …

• Buffalo Archeological Site

  … The Late Archaic component of the Buffalo site represented the remains of a temporary campsite consisting of several shallow fire, cooking, and refuse pits, and flint processing areas. Study of the Buffalo archeological site resulted in the identification …

• Buffington Island

  … the remainder of his men were captured a week later. The deployment of the gunboats was the only naval action involving hostile fire ever to take place in West Virginia waters. Buffington Island also served as the base of operations for the last of the …

• The Bull Moose Special

  … triggered on February 7, 1913, when strikers from Holly Grove fired on a company ambulance and attacked the store at nearby … ’s whistle apparently signaled the beginning of machine gun and rifle fire from the Bull Moose Special into the tents of sleeping …

• Frank Thomas

  … seeing over the New River Gorge, giving flight lessons, looking for downed aircraft with the Civil Air Patrol, spotting forest fires, and just about everything else connected with aviation. In 1946, he almost single-handedly built Fayette Airport, which he …

• Milton W. Humphreys

  … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2246, May 19, 1862, Sergeant Humphreys fired his cannon at Union artillery from behind an intervening … a precedent for modern warfare by the use of indirect fire. Humphreys served throughout the war and was paroled at …

• Hunting

  … /163 of Webster Springs, the renowned mountaineer, reputedly gained his colorful nickname due to his skill with a rifle firing rimfire cartridges. Other legendary hunters have included "John Myers":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1543, & …

• Hydroelectricity

  … the major electric utilities, as well as industrial and independent producers, but they are much smaller than the huge coal-fired electric plants. For example, "Appalachian Power's":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/247 giant John E. Amos …

• Battle of the Tug

  … the Matewan-Williamson area, and nonunion miners fired back. Deputy sheriffs, mine guards, the … joined the fray. Thousands of shots were fired from rifles, pistols, and even machine … of a physician who crawled under fire through the Kentucky mountains to make …

• Cabell Huntington Hospital (Marshall Health Network)

  … 1982. The hospital has the only burn unit in the state, treating electrical and chemical burns as well as those caused by fire. In 1989, construction began on a $12 million surgery suite addition, and in 1998 the new partnership with the "Marshall …

• Cabin Creek Quilts

  … ’s market. 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 …

• Cabwaylingo State Forest

  … timber and game, fought "forest fires":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles … history of farming, and numerous forest fires from arson and moonshining, Cabwaylingo State … the state’s few remaining "fire towers":http://www.wvencyclopedia. …

• Camp Dawson

  … Detachment. It includes a $10 million gym facility, several live fire ranges, drop zones and helicopter landing zones, a demolition range, a live-fire shoot house, an airstrip and combat simulators. Since 1993, the …

• USS West Virginia

  … turrets, with 12 five-inch guns as the secondary battery. Oil-fired boilers provided steam for the electrical propulsion system, which was … led the line and was the first American ship to open fire. The _West Virginia_ was in Tokyo Bay on September 2, …

• Vernacular Architecture

  … into each other without a hall, and all doorways are on axis with each other. It was said that a shotgun could be fired through the front door and exit through the back door without hitting anything. In east Wheeling, groups of shotgun cottages were built …

• Virginius Island

  … Civil War. Island industry suffered devastation during the war, including the destruction and dismantling of machinery, bombardment, fire, and repeated military occupation. Over the years since then, floods and vegetation have reclaimed the structures that …

• H. Rus Warne

  … School. Other buildings include "Edgewood Country Club":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2159 (which was destroyed by fire) and the second Edgewood Country Club; the United Fuel Gas Building; Littlepage Terrace and Washington Manor, low- …

• Camp Good Luck

  … . About 20 boys and girls camped for three days, sleeping in Jackson Crouch’s barn and cooking outside over an open fire. Each camper brought a tin plate and cup, silverware, an empty mattress tick and blankets, toiletries, potatoes, vegetables, bacon, and …

• Camp Woodbine

  … camp was abandoned on October 23, 1935. Work projects included the construction of fire trails and road building, fire fighting, traffic surveys on State Routes 39, 44, and 94 to determine if a new Richwood …