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• Sports

  … /2416 was built in 1913 on the grounds of the "Greenbrier":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/42 resort. College football … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/498, the long-time pro at the Greenbrier, was a dominant player on the PGA Tour, winning …

• State Forests

  … of the early iron ore industry, such as the "Henry Clay Furnace":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/360. "Greenbrier State Forest":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/35 was created in 1938. "Camp Creek":http://www. …

• State Parks

  … is also designated as a state forest), and Plum Orchard Lake. Two of the state’s rail-trails are part of the park system, as well. They are the "Greenbrier River Trail":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/34 and the North Bend Rail Trail.

• Bluegrass Music

  … County’s "Hazel Dickens":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1895 played bass and sang harmony in the 1960s with the Greenbrier Boys. While better known for her solo folk singing, Dickens in 1994 was the first artist to be awarded the Merit …

• Bluestone Dam and Lake

  … built across "New River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1637, one mile above its junction with the "Greenbrier River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/33 and two miles below the confluence of New River and "Bluestone …

• Streams

  … watershed includes such rivers as the Guyandotte, Tug Fork, Greenbrier, New, Gauley, Elk, Coal, Kanawha, Little Kanawha, Cheat, … rivers originate and flow in five directions. The "Greenbrier River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/33 flows …

• Botany

  … _Gray’s Manual of Botany_, collected plants from Harpers Ferry to Tucker County, across Cheat Mountain and southward through the Greenbrier Valley and Mercer County, on his way to North Carolina in 1843. Land speculators and surveyors such as George …

• Summers County

  … 27, 1871, from segments of Fayette, Greenbrier, Mercer, and Monroe counties. The county … River in Summers County, the "Greenbrier":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … were established along the New, Greenbrier, and Bluestone. Settlement, and peaceful …

• Summersville Lake State Park

  … instead. Summersville Dam controls a drainage area of 803 square miles, including parts of Randolph, Nicholas, Webster, Pocahontas, and Greenbrier counties. The rock-fill dam is the second-largest of its type in the eastern United States and required …

• Swamps

  … , glade St. John’s wort, and swamp rose. One of West Virginia’s most extensive swamps is in western "Greenbrier County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2168 in the vicinity of Rupert. Here the broad floodplain of the "Meadow River& …

• Sweet Springs

  … of Charles Lewis, who died in that battle. From 1795 to 1807, a Virginia district court representing the counties of Botetourt, Greenbrier, Kanawha, and Montgomery met at the Sweet Springs resort. The heyday of the resort was from 1820 until the " …

• Brook Trout

  … 1973, lawmakers chose the brook trout as the state fish of West Virginia. Many of the headwater streams of the Cheat, Greenbrier, Elk, Potomac, and Tygart rivers contain good brook trout populations. The longest brook trout was caught in the "Lost …

• Pearl S. Buck

  … early chapters of _The Exile_, Buck’s fine biography of her mother, which gives a vivid account of life in the Greenbrier Valley in the mid-19th century. Buck's parents, Absalom Sydenstricker and Caroline Stulting, were missionaries with the Southern …

• Tanneries

  … West Virginia tanneries were concentrated in Hampshire, Hardy, and Tucker counties. Others operated at places in the Greenbrier Valley logging district, including Frank and Marlinton, "Pocahontas County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ …

• Milton W. Humphreys

  Soldier and scholar Milton Wiley Humphreys (September 13, 1844-November 20, 1928) was born in Greenbrier County and was educated at Mercer Academy and Washington College, now Washington and Lee University. During the Civil War, on March 27, 1862, he …

• Thurmond’s Rangers

  Thurmond’s Partisan Rangers were raised for the Confederate service primarily from Fayette, Greenbrier, and Monroe counties during the spring and summer of 1862. The two companies were commanded by brothers William D. and Philip J. Thurmond of Fayette …

• Bushwhackers

  … throughout the war, occasionally attaching itself to larger Confederate units for service in the New River Gorge and in the Greenbrier Valley. On the other hand, Anderson Hatfield’s "‘‘Wildcats’’":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1451 in …

• Tourism

  … country’s foremost outlets for fine handicrafts. The "Greenbrier":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/42 offers … ":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1903, New River-Greenbrier Valley, Hatfield-McCoy Mountains, Mountain Lakes, and …

• Traveller

  … black points, standing 15.3 hands, was bred and born in Greenbrier County. Of undetermined bloodlines but of Grey Eagle stock, with … horse for $200, Confederate money. Lee called his new mount Greenbrier, but later changed the name. For the remainder of the …

• Turnpikes

  … the "James River & Kanawha Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/978 was completed in 1832 from Greenbrier County to the mouth of the Big Sandy River. Completed in 1838 between Winchester and Parkersburg, the "Northwestern …

• Calvin W. Price State Forest

  … quot;:http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1876, with a small portion in Greenbrier County, Calvin W. Price State Forest is the newest of West … forests. Covering 10,800 acres on the east side of the Greenbrier River, the forest is named in honor of one of …

• Indian Trails

  … route that began in Seneca territory in New York and stretched south through Pennsylvania into Western Virginia, through the Tygart and Greenbrier valleys, to the New River. U.S. 219 parallels the main branch of the Seneca Trail in West Virginia.

• Indian Wars

  … meant that the fighting shifted from east to west: from the Greenbrier, upper New River, and upper Potomac valleys during the 1750s … to have the younger man reject the comforts of a prosperous Greenbrier Valley home when at last Renick located him. Instead, …

• Integration

  … state, were slower in accepting the ruling. For example, Greenbrier County took an approach that delayed integration. On September … of the school year that segregation was to continue. The Greenbrier board of education had decided to return to segregated …

• Interstate Highway System

  … and then resumes its separate easterly route through Raleigh, Summers, and Greenbrier counties to the Virginia border near White Sulphur Springs. … 35.82 miles of I-64, between Sam Black Church in Greenbrier County and the West Virginia Turnpike (I-77), were …