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• George W. Atkinson

  … ;:http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/54, the scholarly Atkinson wrote 11 books of poetry and non-fiction, including _History of Kanawha County_ (1876), _After the Moonshiners_ (1881), _Prominent Men of West Virginia_ (1890), and _Bench and Bar of West …

• Augusta County, Virginia

  … the Ohio and Tennessee rivers. This included a separate agreement of some 2,862 square miles north of "Little Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1422 and west of the Monongahela River, known as Indiana Territory and including …

• Aviation

  … on a makeshift grass airfield in Kanawha City, now a dense residential neighborhood … constructed to serve Charleston and the Kanawha Valley. The 1930s saw construction of … a C-47 transport plane crashed near Kanawha (now Yeager) Airport, killing 21 members …

• The Bailes Brothers

  … country music performers of the 1940s, were the first West Virginians to become _Grand Ole Opry_ stars. Born and reared in "Kanawha County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1103, Kyle (1915–96), Johnnie (1918–89), Walter (1920–2000), and …

• Boling Baker

  … on Hatfield Island. Historian Sigfus Olafson found the name ‘‘Boling Baker’’ among Kanawha County names for his census index of the year 1810. At that time Kanawha included part of present Logan County, but it is not known if …

• Hawks Nest Tunnel Disaster

  … Fayetteville and in Charleston to litigate claims against the contractor, Rinehart and Dennis of Charlottesville, Virginia, and the New Kanawha Power Company, a corporate entity created by Union Carbide. There would be 538 lawsuits filed against the two …

• Banking

  … www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1559 became part of Huntington Banks of Columbus, Ohio. In 2000, One Valley Bank (formerly "Kanawha Valley Bank":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1138), the largest bank in West Virginia, was acquired by BB& …

• The Barnette Case

  … .org/articles/1000 Walter Barnette, Lucy McClure, and Paul Stull sued when their children were expelled from the "Kanawha County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1103 schools for their refusal to salute the flag. They claimed that …

• Highway Development

  … 40), the George Washington Highway that shadowed the Northwestern Turnpike (U.S. 50), and the Midland Trail on the James River & Kanawha Turnpike alignment (U.S. 60). The pace of highway development increased statewide in the 1930s and ’40s. A 1933 …

• Historic Preservation

  … the 1880s when the Smithsonian Institution excavated several "Adena":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/21 mounds in the Kanawha Valley. In the absence of any federal or state preservation laws, these early efforts were haphazard at best. …

• Shawnee

  … .org/articles/2037, whose remains have been found in the Kanawha Valley, among other places. But they left this homeland during … along the frontier. White settlements along the Ohio, in the Kanawha Valley, and in Kentucky bore the brunt of these attacks, …

• Basketball Tournament-Boys

  The West Virginia boys’ high school basketball tournament began in "Buckhannon":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/682 on March 21, 1914. Since then more than 350 high schools have entered teams at some level of tournament play. Each spring …

• Short-Line Railroads

  … Creek, Winifrede (still in operation under a different name), Kellys Creek, and Kellys Creek & Northwestern, all along the Kanawha River east of Charleston. Each was less than 25 miles long, but several had four locomotives to handle the heavy traffic …

• Showboats

  … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2018 and "Kanawha":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … at the mouths of the Little Kanawha and Kanawha rivers, because these places were … . At the mouth of the Little Kanawha River the company built the _New …

• Batts and Fallam Expedition

  … debated how far west Batts and Fallam reached. The explorers may have followed the river to the "falls of the Kanawha":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1110 near present Gauley Bridge in Fayette County. Some suspect they went only as far …

• History of West Virginia

  … upper Ohio, Monongahela, Greenbrier, and Kanawha valleys. The treaties, however, failed … the "James River & Kanawha Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia … /1337, Western Maryland, Virginian, and Kanawha & Michigan lines. Railroad magnates …

• Belgians

  … coal mining, steel production, and window-glass manufacturing. The Belgians’ new homes in north-central West Virginia and the Kanawha Valley must have felt familiar. They left Europe because the Belgian glass factories were struggling in the 1880s and …

• Berkeley County

  … 107,098 in 2012, to 122,076 in 2020. It is now the second most populous county in the state behind Kanawha County. Berkeley County is considered part of the Washington metropolitan area. Two large printing companies, Quad/Graphics and Quebecor Printing, …

• Slavery

  … Western Virginia valleys: Shenandoah, South Branch, Kanawha, and Greenbrier. In 1850, only … In the southwest, below and along the Kanawha River, slaves labored along with … www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/168 around Kanawha Valley salt furnaces was atypical. …

• Berry v. Fox

  … and taxpayer of Salt Lick District in "Braxton County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/644, had filed suit in Kanawha County immediately after the passage of the act. He was represented by two business-oriented Charleston law firms. A mere …

• ‘‘Billy Richardson’s Last Ride’’

  A popular train song commemorates the death of a locomotive engineer in the Kanawha Valley of West Virginia. Billy Richardson, an engineer on the "Chesapeake & Ohio Railway":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1143 from 1878 to 1910 (C& …

• House of Delegates

  … historically varied from one to several. Although Kanawha County has long had the largest … of delegates, four, to Ohio County. Kanawha County was second, with three delegates, … Miley was succeeded in 2015 by Kanawha County Republican "Tim Armstead" …

• Socialist Party

  … government in the United States. In addition, Socialists controlled Cabin Creek, Paint Creek, and Washington districts in the Kanawha County coalfields and the Falls Magisterial District of Fayette County. To a great extent, the progress that the West …

• Black Bear

  … , but are most prevalent in a crescent of counties from Tucker through Greenbrier and Monroe and westward across Kanawha and Boone. "Hunting":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/741 seasons are regulated by calculating bear population in …

• Sam Black

  … quot;circuit rider":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1183. He traveled through Greenbrier, Clay, Fayette, Nicholas, Webster, and Kanawha counties, spreading the word to more people than most other ministers of his day. Affectionately known as ‘‘ …