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• The Seneca Trail

  … by way of the Allegheny and Youghiogheny rivers into western Maryland. From the area … followed the course of the Tygart Valley River to its headwaters and crossed into … and Droop Mountain to the Greenbrier River near the Pocahontas-Greenbrier county line. …

• Appalachian Corridor Highways

  … . In April 2024, the "Blackwater River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/522 was named the 10th most-endangered river in the United States by American … near Sutton. Including the spectacular "New River Gorge Bridge":http://www. …

• Appalachian Regional Commission

  … I-77 at Beckley to I-79 near Sutton via U.S. 19 through Summersville, includes a bridge over the "New River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1637 that is the longest "steel arch bridge":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1639 …

• The Appalachian Trail

  … days of the 1800s, the trail crosses the "Shenandoah River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/388 and enters … West Virginia and enters Maryland by crossing the "Potomac River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1904.

• Aracoma

  … Aracoma moved to what is now called Midelburg Island, in the Guyandotte River at the later site of the city of Logan. They were … of 1780 after Baker led Indians to steal horses from New River Valley settlers. The story has been made into an outdoor drama, …

• Matthew Arbuckle

  … Lewisburg to Warm Springs, Bath County. In June of that year, returning from the capital at Williamsburg, Arbuckle was caught in a violent storm near the banks of the Jackson River and killed by a falling tree. He left a widow and six strong sons.

• Arbuckle’s Fort

  … Col. "Andrew Lewis":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1358 and the southwestern Virginia militia down the "Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1123 to Point Pleasant, where they fought in the "Battle of Point …

• Archeology

  … ;:http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1844 along the "Guyandotte River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/98 in " … with Dr. Ralph Solecki and the Smithsonian Institution’s River Basin Survey on the Bluestone Reservoir project. In 1949 …

• Architects and Architecture

  … .org/articles/321 in Fayette County, "Watoga":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/916 in Pocahontas, and "Lost River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1457 in Hardy, seem just right for their woodsy settings. "Hawks Nest& …

• Harrison County

  … are drained by the "West Fork River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1002 … early 1770s, forts were built along the rivers from the already established Fort Pitt … Elk Creek flows into the West Fork River and on land Daniel Davisson claimed …

• Morris Harvey

  … Virginia of 1,000 acres on the west side of New River for $20. Boosting postwar industrialization, Harvey leased or sold his … town named Harvey became part of the holdings of the New River Company. In 1900, he founded the Fayette National Bank. Harvey …

• Hatfield Family

  … moved their household from Russell County, Virginia, to the Kentucky side of Tug Fork. Hatfields eventually dispersed to both sides of the river, with the main branch of the family living in (West) Virginia by the time of the Civil War. There are two …

• Hatfield Island

  Hatfield Island lies in the "Guyandotte River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/98 in the city of Logan. Named for Elias Hatfield in the early 1900s, it is often called Midelburg Island for Ferdinand Midelburg, a later owner. The 43-acre …

• Mary Lee Settle

  … , living in London, Paris, Rome, and Turkey, Settle had deep roots in the Mountain State. Her great-grandfather came to the Kanawha River Valley after the War of 1812, and built a home in 1844 at what became known as Cedar Grove. After several years in …

• Sewell Mountain

  … the valleys of Sewell Creek and Meadow River. Sewell Mountain is neighbored to the … Raine brothers established the "Meadow River Lumber Company":http://www. … the Sewell Mountain region. The Meadow River Lumber Company logged Sewell Mountain until …

• Shannondale Springs

  A former health spa at mineral springs on the Shenandoah River approximately five miles from Charles Town, Shannondale Springs resort opened in the summer of 1820. A hotel was constructed the same year. The resort was incorporated in 1838 under a new …

• Sam Shaw

  … Pyle Award. Later his quirky ‘‘Jots’’ column served as a sounding board for community projects, including the Moundsville Ohio River bridge, for which he crusaded for 30 years. A graduate of Washington and Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, with majors …

• Art and Artists

  … The state’s rugged interior was explored during the ensuing decades by several notable members of the so-called Hudson River School of American landscape painters, including T. Worthington Whittredge and William L. Sonntag. Prominent native and resident …

• The Artists’ Excursion

  … www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2141, Altamont, Cranberry Summit, "Cheat River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1122, and "Tygart’s Valley River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/805. The …

• Harrison Ash

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

• George W. Atkinson

  … . His ancestors from Cumberland County, England, and County Armagh, Ireland, had settled in Virginia by 1750 and on the Ohio River by 1796. His parents were Col. James and Miriam Rader Atkinson. Other members of the accomplished family spelled the surname …

• Augusta County, Virginia

  … Alleghenies between the Ohio and Tennessee rivers. This included a separate agreement of … miles north of "Little Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … western boundary to the "Ohio River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Boling Baker

  … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1440 by about 1760. He led a band of Shawnees to steal horses from the "Bluestone River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/577 area in 1780 when smallpox ravaged Aracoma’s village. His band was destroyed by …

• Hawks Nest State Park

  … a lake formed by damming the "New River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1637 in … perches on a cliff 750 feet above the river. Most of the 31 guest rooms have … lodge down to Hawks Nest Lake. At the river level are a snack shop, nature center …

• The Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency

  … 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-Felts …