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• Harrison Ash

  … /333, Ash in about 1902 became chief of police at the New River Gorge town of "Thurmond":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … in the saloons that lined the south side of the "New River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1637 across from …

• Ashford General Hospital

  … a military hospital for sick and wounded soldiers and airmen. Named for Army physician Col. Bailey K. Ashford (1873–1934), the new hospital received its first patients in November. Before Ashford General closed in mid-1946, more than 25,000 seriously ill …

• Augusta County, Virginia

  … 1776, the District of West Augusta was divided into three new Virginia counties: Yohogania, Ohio, and Monongalia, and the Westsylvania proposal … were created from the same area. Plans to establish a new state of Franklin to include land that had been part …

• Averell’s Raid

  … capture the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals library in "Lewisburg":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1369 for the new state of West Virginia. The raiders accomplished the first two objectives—destroying the works at Franklin on August 19 …

• Hatfield-McCoy Trail

  … provides rangers to patrol them. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management provides consulting services to aid in the development of new trails and oversees quality control of existing trails. The Hatfield-McCoy Trail is one of 16 trail systems in the United …

• Babcock State Park

  Babcock State Park in "Fayette County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2245 offers visitors an opportunity to explore an expansive second-growth forest bisected by mountain streams and sprawling colonies of "rhododendron":http …

• Back-to-the-Land Movement

  … an era of burgeoning materialism brought thousands of new pioneers to West Virginia’s farm … of view, and mode of dress, the new arrivals and their established neighbors got … the state. Those who stayed helped breathe new life into the hills and hollows …

• Hawks Nest State Park

  … .org/articles/1524 visited the area in 1812, Hawks Nest State Park occupies cliffs, streams, and a lake formed by damming the "New River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1637 in 1934. The park sits on both sides of U.S. 60, just west of …

• The Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency

  … their highly organized spy system extending even into the UMWA leadership. In 1902, they helped break a strike in the New River Field. Eventually, their overriding purpose in West Virginia was to prevent unionization of the miners. More than 150 Baldwin …

• Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

  … line affected the shape of the new state. The B&O … answer to the westward construction of New York’s Erie Canal and … with the Pennsylvania, the "New York Central":http://www … while rejecting those from the New York Central. The absorption of …

• Hawks Nest Tunnel Disaster

  … in 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 …

• Banjo

  … blend for one sound, with the clawhammer banjo providing a syncopation to the fiddle lead. West Virginia banjo playing came to new attention in the "folk revival":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2000 of the late 1960s and ’70s. Banjo …

• Frank C. Haymond

  … at the state prison unconstitutional on the grounds that the Haymond court had rejected, and mandated the building of a new penitentiary. In 1970, Judge Haymond received the American Bar Association’s prestigious ABA Medal, which is awarded to a lawyer …

• Banking

  The early history of banking in West Virginia is closely tied to the banks of Virginia. Before the creation of our state in 1863, several banks chartered by Virginia had branches within the present bounds of West Virginia. These included the Bank of …

• Baptists

  … and Southern Baptists had united as the West Virginia Baptist Convention. Baptist growth, like the general population of the new state of West Virginia, increased steadily following the war; there were approximately 250 churches in 1866 and 600 churches …

• Ken Hechler

  … 20, 1914 - December 10, 2016) was born on Long Island, New York. He graduated from Swarthmore College, later earning M.A. … .org/articles/645 and led the fight to preserve the "New River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1637. He actively …

• Heck’s

  … as several out-of-state discount chain competitors. It built a new headquarters on Kanawha Boulevard in Charleston and a distribution center … ’s was the only West Virginia company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. In 1980, Forbes Magazine ranked Heck’s …

• Huntington Herald-Dispatch

  … Long bought the northwest corner of Fifth Avenue and Tenth Street to erect a building for his paper. The _Herald-Dispatch_ built a new home just a few doors down. After a brief rivalry, the two publishers announced a merger of the two organizations as …

• Walter Barnes

  … an M.A. from Harvard in 1911, and a Ph.D. from New York University in 1930. Barnes taught and administered schools in … www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1037, 1921. After 1928, he taught at New York University. While at Fairmont State, Barnes expanded his …

• William Wallace Barron

  … had centered economic development efforts in a new State Department of Commerce, headed by … , and Barron pleaded guilty to a new indictment of conspiracy, bribery, and obstruction of … prison in 1975, Barron returned with a new sense of religious faith and a …

• Annie Latham Bartlett

  … past, with such titles as ‘‘Madonna of the Hills’’ and ‘‘The Moonshiner.’’ Her works won many awards and were exhibited at the New York World’s Fair in 1939. Allen Eaton described Bartlett’s work as a ‘‘unique individual product’’ in _Handicrafts of the …

• Frank Hereford

  … , establishing himself in "Union":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/818, the county seat of Monroe County in the new state of West Virginia. He married Alice B. Caperton of the prominent Monroe County family. Hereford was among the Democrats …

• High Gate

  … and Jacobean periods, particularly the use of half-timbering. The style was popular along Philadelphia’s Main Line and in the New York suburbs but is found infrequently in West Virginia. High Gate is perhaps the best example in the state. The house’s …

• Highway Development

  … Virginia before the Civil War. In the late 19th century, new highway construction slowed and many established routes either devolved … the sale of bonds paid from tolls. Highway development reached new levels with passage of the Federal-Aid Highway Act …

• Division of Highways

  … Road Commission was renamed the Department of Highways. It reached maximum employment of some 10,000 workers during that decade, as new road bonds and the leadership of Commissioner W. S. Ritchie Jr. spurred construction that resulted in the completion in …