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• Appalachian Regional Hospitals

  … working union miners continued to decline. In 1978, ARH announced it would close its Man hospital. The ARH hired a new administrator, Robert L. Johnson, who brought financial stability to the network by increasing efforts to collect bad debts and raising …

• The Appalachian Trail

  … . On October 7, 1923, the first miles to be built for the Appalachian Trail were opened in Harriman-Bear Mountain State Park, New York. On August 14, 1937, the final section was constructed in central Maine. A remarkable aspect of the trail is that …

• Appalachian Wage Agreement

  … century, culminating in the hard-fought strikes of the early 1920s. The pro-labor legislation of Franklin Roosevelt’s "New Deal":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2265 brought rebirth. UMWA President "John L. Lewis":http://www. …

• Apples

  … apple trees, producing the fruit of the grafted-on variety. New varieties arise through chance or deliberate breeding and are … Delicious. Apple specialists at Kearneysville lost interest in the new variety and shipped it off to State College, Pennsylvania, …

• Aracoma

  … War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/70, perhaps in the spring of 1780 after Baker led Indians to steal horses from New River Valley settlers. The story has been made into an outdoor drama, presented annually at "Chief Logan State Park& …

• Harpers Ferry

  … 1740s and operated the ferry which gave the place its new name. Flooding was a common occurrence in this narrow gorge … World War II. After the war Freewill Baptist missionaries from New England acquired several buildings on Camp Hill and on October …

• Harpers Ferry Armory and Arsenal

  … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/336 in 1837. These new transportation routes made the Harpers Ferry … industrial and agricultural activity and opened up new jobs and markets. Along with the textile mills of New England, Harpers Ferry was an important site …

• Archeology

  … involvement, reflecting the growth of the new field of descriptive anthropology. Charles … . Federal agencies responded to the new legislation by hiring professional archeologists and … of Culture and History. The new department consolidated West Virginia’s …

• Thomas Maley Harris

  … he attacked slavery on moral and economic grounds, for which he was criticized in the newspapers. Previously a Whig, he joined the new Republican Party about the time of the Civil War. He served in the House of Delegates in 1867, as state adjutant general …

• Architects and Architecture

  … McDowell County, when commissioners ordered that a new courthouse, the county’s second, be … Walter Gropius. In 1975, Clarksburg opened a new public library designed by Marcel Breuer, … , and stained glass. Charleston’s brand new "U.S. Courthouse":http …

• Harrison County

  … . So many people had settled on the West Fork by the end of the Revolution that the Virginia General Assembly in 1784 formed the new county, to be named for Benjamin Harrison, governor of Virginia, 1781–84. The first U.S. judicial district west of the …

• Morris Harvey

  … West Virginia of 1,000 acres on the west side of New River for $20. Boosting postwar industrialization, Harvey leased or sold … coal town named Harvey became part of the holdings of the New River Company. In 1900, he founded the Fayette National Bank. …

• Devil Anse Hatfield

  … in the January 1, 1888, nighttime raid on the McCoy cabin. Calvin and Alifair, Randolph McCoy’s grown children, were killed in the New Year’s raid, and their mother, Sarah, bludgeoned. This atrocity brought matters to a head, putting the Hatfields on the …

• Henry D. Hatfield

  … at what is now the University of Louisville. Hatfield received a second medical degree, with a specialization in surgery, from New York University in 1904. Hatfield began the practice of medicine in the southern coalfields, becoming a "coal-camp …

• Serviceberry

  … Serviceberries are popular landscape plants because of their dense flower clusters, yellowish-red autumn leaves, and small size. In New England, serviceberries are called shad bush because they bloom in early spring when the shad fish move upstream to …

• Mary Lee Settle

  … settled down in Charleston where Mary lived until she was 18. After two years at Sweet Briar College in Virginia, she moved to New York, and then to England where she joined the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force during "World War II":http://www. …

• Seventh Day Baptists

  … through their missionary efforts or permanent relocation helped spread the faith in other states, including Georgia, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia. The denomination has about 5,000 members in the United …

• Sewell Mountain

  … is the mineral of economic importance. From an elevation above the New River Gorge at about 2,200 feet, Sewell Mountain … Park":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/321 to the "New River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1637 at the …

• Shanghai Parade

  The Shanghai Parade, held each New Year’s Day on Washington Street in "Lewisburg":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1369, is a community celebration of uncertain origins. Originally a costume parade emphasizing the frightful, in modern times …

• Shannondale Springs

  … the same year. The resort was incorporated in 1838 under a new group of investors who had strong economic and political ties to … facilities for hunting, fishing, dances, and local church groups. A new hotel was constructed in 1890 on the site of the old …

• Shape-Note Singing

  … Virginia churches, first appeared in _The Easy Instructor: A New Method of Teaching Sacred Harmony_, published in Philadelphia in … perpetuated the tradition among African-Americans as director of the New Era District Number Two Shape-Note Choir in Beckley. …

• Morris Purdy Shawkey

  … to West Virginia. Shawkey launched a program for building new high schools and new … his leadership between 1909 and 1921, 125 new high schools were built, the standardized … the student body grew rapidly, and a new library, student union, and other buildings …

• Art and Artists

  … before gaining employment as a writer and illustrator for _Harper’s New Monthly Magazine_ during the early 1850s. His work in … appeared nationally during the Civil War likely contributed to the new wave of landscape painters who visited the state, briefly …

• Gabriel Arthur

  … .org/articles/408, another team sent out by Woods, that set out from Fort Henry in 1671 and became the first recorded European-Americans to explore the upper reaches of the "New River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1637.

• The Artists’ Excursion

  … their impressions in numerous photographs and sketches, the best-known being David Hunter Strother’s ‘‘Artists’ Excursion over the Baltimore & Ohio Rail Road,’’ published with an article of his in _Harper’s New Monthly Magazine_ in June 1859.