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• Natural Gas and Petroleum

  … and Lower Mississippian geologic periods. Other reservoirs include the Lower Devonian Oriskany Sandstone and the Mississippian Greenbrier Limestone. Oil is restricted to reservoirs located primarily in northern and central West Virginia. First found in …

• Cornstalk

  … Virginia family. In 1763, during "Pontiac’s War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1899, Cornstalk raided the Greenbrier settlements in present West Virginia. Like these episodes, the Battle of Point Pleasant, which took place in October …

• Natural Resources

  … Valley using locally abundant coal and timber, limestone from the Greenbrier Valley, and iron ore from neighboring Virginia. The ruins … steep slopes. Limestone soils are more common in the Greenbrier Valley, Monroe County, and the Eastern Panhandle, where …

• Nature Conservancy

  … ; and Yankauer in Berkeley County. In the 1980s, the Conservancy bought a conservation easement to protect General Davis Cave in Greenbrier County, the only known home of the West Virginia spring salamander. It was the first time an easement—a legally …

• Frank Duff McEnteer

  … build short to medium span bridges, in its later years several large bridges were built, including the Alderson bridge across the Greenbrier River in 1915. On the eve of the "Great Depression":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2155, in 1928– …

• New River Community and Technical College

  … ;One Room University" in "Marlinton":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1510 and serves Fayette, Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Raleigh, Summers, and Webster counties. New River Community and Technical College offers …

• John T. McGraw

  … ;:http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1143 to bring the C&O’s Greenbrier Division to the upper Greenbrier Valley. It arrived in Marlinton in 1900. John T. McGraw suffered financial reversals in his later years …

• Kermit McKeever

  … ":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/569. He was born at what he called ‘‘the mountain place’’ near Renick, "Greenbrier County":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2168. A graduate of "Glenville State College":https://www. …

• Covered Bridges

  … ; Center Point, Doddridge County; Herns Mill and Hokes Mill, Greenbrier County; Fletcher and Simpson Creek, Harrison County; Staats Mill … . Moore supervised the major crossings of the Gauley and Greenbrier rivers along the James River & Kanawha Turnpike. …

• Nicholas County

  … County was created by the Virginia legislature from parts of Greenbrier, Kanawha, and Randolph counties on January 30, 1818. … and escaped. After the war, she returned to neighboring Greenbrier County, married, and lived there until her death. Around …

• Cranberry River

  The Cranberry River flows through the heart of the remote Cranberry backcountry of Greenbrier, Webster, and Pocahontas counties in West Virginia. The river rises on Cranberry Mountain just above the "Cranberry Glades":http://www.wvencyclopedia. …

• The Cultural Landscape

  … different Weirton looks compared to Lewisburg. Weirton’s steel mills would look out of place in the broad agricultural valley of Greenbrier County, and the opposite is true, as well. Cultural landscapes are found not only in rural places or small towns …

• Ohio River

  … watershed. The principal tributaries in West Virginia are the Little Kanawha, the Kanawha and its tributaries (including the Elk, Gauley, Greenbrier, and New rivers), the Guyandotte, and the Big Sandy River and the Tug Fork of Big Sandy. The principal …

• Meadow River

  … . It has its headwaters along the Greenbrier-Summers county line, in the high … forms the boundary between Fayette and Greenbrier and Fayette and Nicholas counties. … followed for several miles in "Greenbrier County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org …

• Old-Growth Forests

  … Bend in Fayette County also has old hemlock, along with black birch and red maple. A ten-acre stand along Anthony Creek in Greenbrier County contains white oak, pignut hickory, black gum, and white pine which all exceed 200 years of age. One of the …

• Mennonites

  … , Virginia. While no congregation was established, the Greenbrier Mennonites likely held religious meetings in their homes … ), Monroe (1976), Barbour (1982), Hampshire (2000), and Greenbrier (2003) counties. Congregations are affiliated with various branches …

• Methodists

  … in West Virginia. The second was the Greenbrier Circuit in southeastern West Virginia. Perhaps the earliest class on the Greenbrier Circuit was formed a few miles … Rehoboth several times, holding sessions of the Greenbrier Conference there in 1792, 1793, …

• Pack Peddlers

  … and household items, toys, and musical instruments. To rural residents, the peddler’s arrival was an exciting occasion. A Greenbrier County woman reminisced that during her 1880s childhood, regular visits from a Jewish peddler ‘‘gave us something to look …

• Mineral Springs

  … https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/560 in Greenbrier. Although, renovation of the historic pavilion … of these is the world-renowned Greenbrier at White Sulphur Springs, in Greenbrier County. The others are the "Capon Springs Resort":https:// …

• Pence Springs

  … broad fields between the spring and the Greenbrier River contain prehistoric sites, which were … built its main line down the Greenbrier River. The railroad constructed a passenger … hands again when it became the Greenbrier Academy for Girls, a facility for …

• Pocahontas County

  … www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2096, "Greenbrier":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … of first European movement into the Greenbrier Valley, Indians did not have … established in 1883. The "Greenbrier Division":https://www.wvencyclopedia. …

• Demography

  … as the rugged landscape discouraged plantation agriculture. There were local exceptions in the major river valleys, including the Greenbrier, Kanawha, and Ohio valleys, and in the Eastern Panhandle. Extensive industrial slavery was practiced at the " …

• Denmar Hospital

  … care of Black TB patients. Denmar, located on the Greenbrier River in "Pocahontas County":http://www.wvencyclopedia. … Railway’s":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1143 Greenbrier Division. Dr. B. A. Crichlow was named superintendent …

• Pontiac’s Rebellion

  … wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2075. The largest of those that survived were Detroit and Fort Pitt. In Western Virginia’s Greenbrier region, the Shawnee chief "Cornstalk":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1602 led approximately 60 warriors who …

• Presbyterians

  … www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2024, "Greenbrier":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … as a Presbyterian evangelist in "Greenbrier":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org … him organized congregations in the Greenbrier Valley, in "Charleston" …