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• South Charleston Mound

  … several miles on both sides of the Kanawha River. South Charleston Mound, like many … 21, who lived along the Ohio and Kanawha drainage systems between 1000 and 200 B … reminder of the peoples who inhabited the Kanawha Valley several hundreds of years before …

• Spanish-American War

  … federal troops. The regiment consisted of 12 companies, organized into the 1st West Virginia Volunteer Infantry and mustered into service in Kanawha City in May 1898. The regiment was sent to Camp Thomas, Georgia, to join units from throughout the east. In …

• Spy Rock

  … is a natural landmark with historical significance. It is located on U.S. 60, the old "James River & Kanawha Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/978, 18 miles east of Hawks Nest and about midway between Charleston and Lewisburg. …

• Blizzard Treason Trial

  … company attorneys composed the prosecution team. "Thomas Townsend":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/752, former Kanawha County prosecuting attorney, led the defense. The prosecution chose to try Blizzard first, believing that the _State of …

• Miles Stanley

  … rapidly in his local union, where he was elected president in 1947. In 1954, Stanley was elected president of the Kanawha Valley Industrial Council, and three years later he was selected the first president of the "West Virginia Labor Federation AFL- …

• Blue Book

  … edited the _Blue Book_ in the late 1970s, and Logan’s Todd C. Willis for most of the 1980s. Clerk Darrell E. Holmes of Kanawha County took over the task in 1989. Clerk Lee Cassis is the current editor. The _Blue Book_ lists officers and employees of all …

• Samuel W. Starks

  Born in Charleston in 1866, Samuel W. Starks became the first African-American in the United States to serve as a state librarian. Appointed to the position in 1901 by "Governor Albert Blakeslee White":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1235 …

• State Forests

  … as conservation, the state forest system operates under a multiple-use concept including timber production (except at "Kanawha State Forest":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1134, where commercial logging is prohibited by law), watershed …

• Bluestone Dam and Lake

  … $30 million. With a drainage area of 4,565 square miles Bluestone Dam controls 44 percent of the river flow through the populous Kanawha Valley, which is downstream. It is a concrete gravity dam 165 feet high and 2,048 feet long, administered by the & …

• Bluestone River

  … roads. The Bluestone Turnpike once connected the New River road with a road at Flat Top, the latter road eventually reaching the Kanawha River by way of Paint Creek. The Bluestone Lumber Company built a railroad, now dismantled, down Brush Creek and along …

• Statuary

  … A Lincoln statue, ‘‘Lincoln Walks At Midnight’’ by Fred Martin Torrey, is located at the front of the capitol overlooking the Kanawha River. A Union infantryman marches to the west of Lincoln, in the place opposite Jackson. World War I soldiers are also …

• Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike

  … amended in 1826, substituting "Parkersburg":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1811 at the mouth of the Little Kanawha River. The preliminary survey was made in 1823 by Col. "Claudius Crozet":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ …

• Steel Industry

  … iron and steelworkers in West Virginia numbered 22,596, with 19,181 of them in the Northern Panhandle, 1,911 in the Kanawha Valley, and 542 in the Parkersburg area. In the decade to follow, steelworkers won benefits such as pensions, health insurance, and …

• James McNeil Stephenson

  … the Northwestern Virginia Turnpike, the "James River & Kanawha Canal":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/964, the Northwestern Virginia Railroad, and the Little Kanawha Navigation Company. His political influence was evidenced by the …

• Stone & Thomas

  The first Stone & Thomas Department Store opened in 1847 on Market Street in "Wheeling":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1168, as the Bee Hive. It was owned by Jacob C. Thomas and Elijah J. Stone, who later married Thomas’s sister. …

• Boone County

  … 11, 1847, from parts of Logan, Kanawha, and Cabell counties by an … , who lived in the neighboring Kanawha Valley in the late 18th … county and flow to the Kanawha River below Charleston. The first … down to mills on the Kanawha, and the industry expanded with …

• Streams

  … wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2185flows west to the Kanawha; and the "Cheat":http … needs of industrial giants on the Kanawha and Ohio. Water pumped from rivers … network since early times. The Monongahela, Kanawha, Big Sandy, and Ohio rivers continue …

• Streetcar Lines

  Although West Virginia’s terrain limited the area in which streetcars could operate profitably, the state had several streetcar systems. Most were interurban lines, connecting two or more communities and offering rural people easy access to town. …

• Botany

  … in the Marshall and WVU herbariums. The professors and their graduate students added greatly to the knowledge of the Ohio, Kanawha, and New River valleys, and southwestern West Virginia. Other colleges left their marks as well. Meade McNeil of Concord …

• Summers County

  … at the confluence of the Bluestone and New rivers, was an important river crossing on the "James River & Kanawha Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/978. Union forces held Pack’s Ferry with entrenched artillery. Mercer Saltworks …

• Bottled Water

  West Virginia’s spring waters have a long history, including the regular patronage of George Washington at "Berkeley Springs":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/459. Mineral water was bottled at West Virginia springs in the 19th and early …

• Festus Paul Summers

  … .org/articles/1670. He was a direct descendant of William Morris, who made the first permanent settlement in the upper Kanawha Valley, and his son, Henry, a prominent Nicholas County pioneer. Summers began his teaching career in a one-room school in …

• Bounty Lands

  … ":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2344 on the Ohio and Kanawha rivers in present West Virginia. One Kanawha tract was a few miles above "Point Pleasant":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ …

• Harry Brawley

  Broadcaster Harry Morgan Brawley (October 8, 1909-March 25, 1992) was born in "Charleston":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1089. After contracting polio at age two, he succeeded in learning to walk but struggled with this disability for …

• Braxton County

  … was created on January 15, 1836, from Kanawha, Lewis, and Nicholas counties. It is … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2185, "Little Kanawha":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles … the old bridge over the Little Kanawha at Burnsville, and the Cunningham …