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• Sutton

  … the "Staunton & Parkersburg Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/584 to the "James River & Kanawha Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/978, via Sutton. A suspension bridge was constructed on the Weston & …

• Bridges

  … bridge opened that cost far more. The Interstate 64 bridge crossing the Kanawha River between Dunbar and South Charleston in Kanawha County was completed in 2010. At 760 feet, the main span of the bridge …

• Sweet Springs

  … Lewis, who died in that battle. From 1795 to 1807, a Virginia district court representing the counties of Botetourt, Greenbrier, Kanawha, and Montgomery met at the Sweet Springs resort. The heyday of the resort was from 1820 until the "Civil War& …

• Brooks Bird Club

  … Club has published a series of notable books, including the _Birding Guide to West Virginia_ by James Bullard, _Birds of the Greater Kanawha Valley_ by Charles Handley Sr., and The _West Virginia Breeding Bird Atlas_ by Albert R. Buckelew Jr. and George A. …

• William T. Brotherton Jr.

  … undergraduate and law degrees from Washington and Lee University in Virginia. He was an assistant prosecuting attorney in "Kanawha County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1103 for two years before serving in the "House of Delegates& …

• The Bruen Lands Feud

  … York City inherited 200,000 acres of a 1796 Western Virginia land grant, extending through the present counties of Putnam, Kanawha, Jackson, and Roane. Attempts to manage the Bruen lands resulted in violence and bitterness, upsetting the peace of the area …

• Synthetic Rubber

  On June 28, 1940, with the Japanese military threatening America’s sources of natural rubber, President Franklin Roosevelt designated rubber as a strategic and critical material. In August 1940, "Union Carbide Corporation":http://www. …

• Tackett’s Fort

  Tackett’s Fort was located at the mouth of the "Coal River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1365 at present "St. Albans":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/151. Lewis, Samuel, and Christopher Tackett and friend John Young …

• Buffalo Academy

  … modern languages, as well as science, literature, and religion. The school drew students from up and down the Ohio and Kanawha valleys. It flourished until the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1193, when many of the young men …

• Buffalo Archeological Site

  The Buffalo archeological site is located on the east bank of the "Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1123 near the town of Buffalo, "Putnam County":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1948. The site is listed in …

• Grace Martin Taylor

  Artist Grace Martin Frame Taylor (February 11, 1903-October 1, 1995) was born in "Morgantown":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1402. A painter, printmaker, collage artist, and art educator, she studied at "West Virginia University& …

• Teays River

  … /articles/2096 rivers, and the upper "Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … The ancient river diverged from the modern Kanawha at present St. Albans, traveling on … of the Teays became the lower Kanawha River from Nitro to Point Pleasant. …

• Telephone Service

  … , and Georgetown, Kentucky, this line provided service to Charleston and Huntington, along with other cities located along the Kanawha and Ohio rivers. Construction of toll and long-distance lines through the rest of the state soon created a network to …

• Textile Industry

  … wood pulp contributed to the shift. DuPont’s "Belle works":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1985 in Kanawha County provided vital intermediate material for the production of nylon, the first true synthetic, providing such material for the …

• Bulltown

  … chief who settled there on the banks of the "Little Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1422 in the … ":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1146 crossed the Little Kanawha River on a covered bridge at this site. The Battle …

• Hughes River

  While exploring the Little Kanawha River Valley in 1772, frontiersman "Jesse Hughes":http://www.wvencyclopedia. … of Wirt in West Virginia. It empties into the "Little Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1422 at the Wood …

• Burning Springs Oil Field

  … ":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1321 on the Little Kanawha River upstream from Elizabeth. The community’s name was derived … at 150,000 barrels while noting that it turned the Little Kanawha River into a ‘‘sheet of fire.’’ Production resumed a …

• Burning Springs Raid

  … for pumping, engine houses, wagons, and oil-laden boats. The boats exploded, sending burning oil down the "Little Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1422 until the stream became a sheet of flame with massive clouds of dense, …

• Burnsville

  Burnsville is located at the confluence of the "Little Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1422 with … a railroad junction town. Paddlewheel riverboats traveled the Little Kanawha River to Burnsville until 1931. At the turn of …

• Burnsville Dam

  Burnsville Dam is located on the "Little Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1422 about three miles upstream from the Braxton County town of "Burnsville":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/730, and 124 miles above …

• Hunting

  … . Topping the list is the fabled frontiersman "Daniel Boone":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/611, who lived in Kanawha County for about 10 years. Powell Mountain in Nicholas County was named for William Powell, an early hunter in that …

• Hunting Dogs

  … other hounds are turned loose. One Webster County hunter said after the 2000 hunting season that a pack of his hounds held a Kanawha County bear treed for more than five hours while hunters tried to find their way to the remote scene. When the hunters …

• T. C. Townsend

  … in Fayetteville. From 1909 to 1911 and again after 1929, Townsend served as the state tax commissioner. He was elected as Kanawha County’s prosecuting attorney in 1912. As tax commissioner, he worked to change the state’s tax structure to remove the …

• Treaty of Hard Labor

  … border for British North America, along a line extending in part from present Wytheville, Virginia, to the mouth of the Kanawha River at "Point Pleasant":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1888. The only part of West Virginia not under …

• Hurricane

  … corporate limits of Hurricane. The settlement was named Hurricane Creek Bridge and was a stop on the "James River & Kanawha Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/978. When the "Chesapeake & Ohio Railway":http://www. …