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• Battle of White Sulphur Springs

  In the summer of 1863, Confederate forces reoccupied "Lewisburg":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1369 and began probing toward Charleston. The new state of West Virginia had just been created, and in August Union forces were dispatched …

• Wildlife Management Areas

  … , and "Jefferson":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/996 national forests. The largest wildlife management area within a national forest is the Cranberry WMA (158,147 acres) in Nicholas, Webster, Pocahontas, and Greenbrier counties.

• Kyashuta

  … s Rebellion (1763). His command of combined Indian forces during these wars was responsible for the abandonment of the Greenbrier River and Monongahela River settlements. After a series of violent incidents against both Indian and European-American border …

• George Clendenin

  … /articles/1089. His family settled in the Greenbrier Valley in 1771, and George first … by George, left Camp Union with 30 Greenbrier County Rangers on April 1, 1788 … wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1103 from parts of Greenbrier and Montgomery counties in 1788. On …

• Wind Power

  … Center, located along Backbone Mountain in Tucker and Preston counties; Mount Storm in Grant County; Beech Ridge Energy in Greenbrier County; Pinnacle Wind Farm in Mineral County; Laurel Mountain in Barbour and Randolph counties; and Black Rock Wind Farm …

• Climax Locomotives

  … use at "Cass Scenic Railroad":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/997, and another is in service on the Durbin and Greenbrier Valley, both in Pocahontas County. Of a mere dozen Climaxes left in America today, five were used in West Virginia.

• Maryat Lee

  Playwright Maryat Lee (May 26, 1923-September 18, 1989) was born Mary Attaway Lee in Covington, Kentucky. Lee graduated from Wellesley College in 1945 in religious studies, then studied at Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary. In 1951, …

• Robert E. Lee

  … war horse, "Traveller":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/761, during the Sewell Mountain campaign. He later purchased the horse, which was bred and born in "Greenbrier County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2168.

• World War II

  … "West Virginia University":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1127 and other schools around the state. "The Greenbrier":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/42 resort served as a detention center for German, Italian, and Japanese …

• Andrew Lewis

  … Lewis taught Andrew fort building and surveying. In 1751, they surveyed the Greenbrier Valley and named the river for the vexatious Greenbriers that abounded in the region, then as now. Later, Andrew surveyed Western …

• Battle of Lewisburg

  The Battle of Lewisburg, a Union victory during the Civil War, occurred as U.S. troops maneuvered from Western Virginia toward Tennessee in the spring of 1862. Gen. John C. Frémont, commander of the Mountain Department for the U.S. Army, planned to …

• Locks and Dams

  … River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/686, "New River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1637, "Greenbrier River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/33, and "Gauley River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Mount Nebo Gospel Sings

  … sing at the Nazarene Church Camp, two miles west of Mount Nebo. In 1949, organizers invited groups from neighboring Greenbrier and Fayette counties to participate in the Nicholas County homecoming. Because of its success, the three-county event grew into …

• Log Driving and Rafting

  … successfully driven because they were too rapid, narrow, or filled with obstructions, but others were ideally suited for driving. The Greenbrier became the most famous of the driving rivers, its reputation mythologized in the popular novels of "W. E. …

• Loyal Company

  … Virginia. The Loyal Company, as well as the "Greenbrier Company":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2166, was … land speculators alike. The Loyal Company, along with the Greenbrier and "Ohio":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ …

• Justus Collins

  … ; Western Railway":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1683. In 1893 he opened Collins Colliery in Glen Jean, Fayette County, opened Greenbrier Coal & Coke at about the same time, and later the Whipple mine near Mount Hope. He built identical …

• I. T. Mann

  … Isaac Thomas Mann (July 23, 1863-May 18, 1932) was born in Greenbrier County. After an apprenticeship at his father’s Greenbrier Valley Bank in 1889, Mann helped organize the Bank of Bramwell, which became a …

• Marlinton

  … . It is located on the "Greenbrier River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … of the first white settlement in the Greenbrier Valley. "Jacob Marlin and Stephen … Warm Springs and the other connecting Greenbrier and Randolph counties, made a junction …

• Marshes

  … with large marsh areas in "Canaan Valley":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/908 and along the Meadow River in Greenbrier County. Other marshes occur at Green Bottom Swamp in Cabell County, Short Mountain Wetlands in Hampshire County, Altona- …

• Mylan

  Mylan Pharmaceuticals, a global pharmaceutical company until 2021, was founded in West Virginia. Mylan operated a major manufacturing facility in "Morgantown":http://Morgantown, one of the company’s 39 sites around the world. Mylan produced …

• National Forests

  … West Virginia, encompassing parts of 10 counties from Preston and Tucker southwestward to Nicholas, Pocahontas, and Greenbrier. The George Washington and "Jefferson":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/996 national forests, headquartered in …

• Constitutional Convention of 1861–63

  … the statehood movement by adding counties in southwestern Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley. In the end, the convention added Greenbrier, Mercer, McDowell, Monroe, and Pocahontas to the 39 counties originally planned for the new state. Partly as a result …

• Constitutional Convention of 1872

  … to all convention offices, including the president, "Samuel Price":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1918 of Greenbrier County, the former lieutenant governor of secessionist Virginia. Price, in turn, appointed former Confederates to most …

• National Historic Landmarks

  … labor history event, the bloody 1920 "Matewan Massacre":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1576. The "Greenbrier":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/42 resort in "White Sulphur Springs":https://www.wvencyclopedia. …

• Henry Mason Mathews

  … Mason Mathews (March 29, 1834-April 28, 1884) was the fifth governor of West Virginia. He was born at Frankford, "Greenbrier County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2168. His father, Mason Mathews, was a merchant who served as a member of …