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• Mormons

  … the state. The church has also been active in humanitarian efforts throughout West Virginia, responding to emergency situations, such as floods, as well as supplying tens of thousands of pounds of food and clothing to underprivileged families.

• Little Kanawha River

  … creating an inferno so intense that oil burned on the surface of the river. "Burnsville Dam":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/731 was built on the upper reaches of Little Kanawha in 1978, providing flood control and recreation.

• Locks and Dams

  … year-round nine-foot navigation depth, but do not provide flood protection. West Virginia’s second greatest river is the " … built on it, but these structures were seriously damaged by flood waters in 1824 and abandoned shortly thereafter. In 1838, …

• Mount Storm Lake

  … wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1605 in conjunction with Dominion Power. Releases from Mount Storm Lake and Jennings Randolph Lake on the North Branch itself now serve to augment the flow of the North Branch. Mount Storm Lake is not used for flood control.

• Joseph Harvey Long

  … Bank, Huntington- Ohio Bridge Company, Huntington Symphony Orchestra Association, and Morris Memorial Hospital. He was a leader in establishing the city’s flood wall system and several schools. He also actively supported the Democratic Party.

• Lost River

  … . If it has rained recently, the surface stream bed may still have some water in it, but the major flow remains underground. In flood times, the above-ground river becomes a roaring stream and passes through the chasm it has cut at Sandy Ridge. When the …

• Marlinton

  … and improved roads make it easy for shoppers to travel to larger communities. The population was 998 in 2020. Major floods in "November 1985":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2197 and "January 1996":https://www.wvencyclopedia …

• Consolidation Coal Company

  … . During the 1880s and 1890s, because of the low cost of beginning mining operations and a high protective tariff, coal flooded from America’s mines. As supply exceeded demand, falling prices hurt producers. The consolidation of mines, by those with the …

• Mountaintop Removal Mining

  … that blasting shook homes, and dust from mining and preparation plants covered houses and cars. Runoff from valley fills flooded streams and homes. Some communities were nearly eliminated when mines bought out residents who complained. In 1998, attorney …

• Mud River

  … a big creek except during times of flood, crosses into Lincoln County and flows through … . In 1938, Congress approved construction of a flood-control reservoir on the Mud River, … project and it was never built. A flood-control dam was built on the upper …

• Natural History

  … "locks and dams":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1428 on West Virginia waterways are invaluable for commerce and flood control but have devastated native fishes, freshwater mussels, and other aquatic species as free-flowing rivers became …

• Natural Resources

  … agricultural operations, timbering, manufacturing, and home sewage. Twentieth-century changes brought hundreds of farm ponds, dozens of small flood-control and water-supply reservoirs, and more than a dozen large lakes, all affecting West Virginia’s water …

• ‘‘Country Roads’’

  … ;Culture Center":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1688 in Charleston to benefit victims of the disastrous "1985 floods":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2197. A popular arrangement of ‘‘Country Roads’’ by Dr. James Miltenberger …

• New River

  … the New River to a wide expanse of lazy water. The dam, just above the railroad town of Hinton, was built primarily for flood control and completed in 1949. Below the dam, as the elevation drops and hills push against its banks, the river moves faster as …

• Covered Bridges

  … beauty and charm, a testimony to the craftsmanship of their builders. Their practical straightforward design created long-lasting structures, which have survived the gales of war, floods, ice, and even grievous fires over the past century and a half.

• Newspapers

  … from other states. The disastrous 1985 flood also dramatically changed the technology … a desktop publishing system after the flood demolished its printing plant, instantly … into the computer age. Other flood-ravaged newspapers quickly adopted computerized …

• Nicholas County

  … 2,800-acre surface offer recreational benefits in addition to the flood control and other purposes for which it was created. … of the Grape Stomping Wine Festival. In 2016, a "deadly flood":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2443 along the …

• Northern Panhandle

  … the Ohio by creeks that include Grave, Wheeling, Kings, Harmon, Buffalo, Fish, and Cross. The Ohio River and its flood plain are the most conspicuous physical features. Other interesting physical features include the Narrows, "McColloch’s Leap": …

• Northwestern Virginia Turnpike

  … , problems typical of 19th-century roads plagued the turnpike. For example, the damage caused by rains and spring flooding required constant repair. In spite of increasing competition from the railroad, the turnpike operated at a small profit and was able …

• Osage and Pursglove Mine Disasters

  … it to safety, but one mine crew and the motorman remained unaccounted for. All 12 miners perished. On January 24, officials decided to flood and seal the mine. Seals were removed on April 23, 1943, but de-watering the mine proved difficult and the body of …

• Migration

  … 1930s and 1940s, rural counties along the Virginia border suffered similar declines. Then in the 1950s and 1960s came the great flood of coalfield migrants, which, after a brief halt in the 1970s, continued through the end of the century. During the 1980s …

• Pardee & Curtin Lumber Company

  … articles/2141, and incorporated in 1892, is the oldest continuously operating lumber company in West Virginia. In 1888, a disastrous flood destroyed the Fetterman mill, and in 1890 the company erected a band sawmill at Sutton. This mill operated until 1904 …

• Pendleton County

  Created on May 1, 1788, largely from Rockingham County, and smaller portions of Augusta and Hardy, Pendleton County was named for Virginia statesman Edmund Pendleton (1721–1803). Bounded on two sides by Virginia, it adjoins the Shenandoah Valley. Its …

• Philippi Mummies

  … disappeared from public view. Frank Beyer purchased the mummies from a Hamrick family estate sale in 1970. Damaged in the "flood of 1985":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2197, the mummies were treated by a local funeral home. They remain …

• Deforestation

  … the land, 710 of them burning 1.7 million acres in 1908 alone. The streams became polluted and devoid of life, while floods ravaged the valleys below, and erosion washed away topsoil into the streams, silting up navigable watercourses. To save the inland …