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• Meadow River Lumber Company

  During the first decade of the 1900s, brothers Thomas and John Raine incorporated the Meadow River Lumber Company and purchased 32,000 acres of timber in western "Greenbrier County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2168. There they built a …

• Old-Growth Forests

  … doing a study of the history of fire determined the pine tree is 271 … mountain pines are more likely to survive fires because they grow in isolated areas … streamside location, it also escaped the slash fires that ravaged the mountains. "Gaudineer …

• Old Stone Presbyterian Church

  … , May 23, 1862, Confederate dead lay in the sanctuary. The Union commander refused to allow services, in retaliation for sniper fire that killed one of his wounded soldiers. The Confederates were unceremoniously buried in a trench along the south wall of …

• Osage and Pursglove Mine Disasters

  … the mine’s sections, killing 20. The misfortunes of Scotts Run continued when early on January 8, 1943, a haulage locomotive fire spread to the coal seam. Ventilation currents carried the heavy smoke into the working sections, and the midnight foreman …

• Arnold Miller

  … . In 1942, Miller joined the army. As an infantryman during the D-Day invasion, he received severe facial wounds from machine-gun fire and lost most of his left ear. Over the next two years, he underwent 19 operations in military hospitals in England. …

• Mine Safety

  … , calling for provisions for preventing underground mine fires and requiring foremen and fire … , when 78 miners died in a fire at a "Farmington coal mine& … role in the dramatic decrease of mine fires, explosions, and fatalities. Technological advances in …

• Mineral Springs

  … , including travel and recreation habits. Many resorts suffered disastrous fires. Some never reopened after the hotel or main buildings … . It appears that arson was the cause of some fires, perhaps reflecting fragile financial health. The old resorts …

• Minerals

  … building, agricultural lime, coal mine safety dust, in coal-fired power plant scrubbers, acid mine drainage neutralizers, and for … clay dummies are produced from the Pennsylvanian-age Bolivar Fire Clay. Many Pennsylvanian-aged clay deposits were once mined …

• Panther State Forest

  … . Today, Panther is rich in plant life. Among its "wildflowers":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1253 are mayapple, fire pink, touch-me-nots, jack-in-the-pulpit, bishop’s cap, and blood-root. Cross vine, typically a southern species, has …

• Mingo County

  … .org/articles/1364 of coal mines and other causes, including regional job losses due to the shift of the N&W from coal-fired steam locomotives to diesel. In 2020, the county's population was 23,568, its lowest total since 1910. By 2021, only 228 people …

• Pentecostalism

  … God; the Church of God Cleveland, Tennessee; the Church of God of Prophecy; the Church of God, Mountain Assembly; the Fire Baptized Holiness Association; the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel; the Open Bible Standard Churches; and the Original …

• Petersburg

  … of 2,467. By 2020, the population had dropped slightly to 2,251. The town has a hospital, city library, volunteer fire department, newspaper, high school and elementary school, nine churches, several restaurants and motels, a variety of retail stores, and …

• Pleasants County

  … Ohio, and many businesses built warehouses there. However, a massive fire and the flood of 1848 doomed Creel’s village to … https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/485 gas company opened a gas-fired electricity generating plant at Bull Creek in 2002. This …

• Pocahontas County

  … land was damaged in the 1930s by severe "forest fires":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2021 that followed … quot;reforestation":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/49 and fire control, the CCC did the original development of Droop …

• Battle of Point Pleasant

  … men each, under his brother, Col. Charles Lewis, and Col. William Fleming, up the bottomland to meet the enemy. Musket fire mingled with fog obscured the battlefield, and the hand-to-hand fighting was fierce. A flanking movement along Crooked Creek to …

• Dick Pointer

  … to the quick thinking of Pointer and Hammond, who rolled a hogshead of water behind the door. Pointer also managed to fire at the invaders, thus alerting the sleeping inhabitants. The surprised settlers fought the Indians as they jumped from their beds. …

• Pottery Industry

  … some stoneware clay here, and more was imported where needed. Stoneware reached a stone-like hardness through high-temperature firing. Late 19th-century potters knew how to make saltglazed stoneware decorated in cobalt blue. Thirty-four stoneware potters …

• Prehistoric People

  … profile from "Mason County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1563 indicates local vegetation disturbances were caused by fire and led to an increase of weedy seed plants, many of which were subsequently domesticated. Historic references …

• Preston County Buckwheat Festival

  … , which is commemorated by an annual first-day postage cancellation. The festival is sponsored by Kingwood’s Volunteer Fire Department, and every Preston County community is represented by participating volunteers. Hundreds of people staff the community …

• Princeton

  Princeton, the county seat of "Mercer County":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1764, was named for the Battle of Princeton in New Jersey, where the county’s namesake, Revolutionary Gen. Hugh Mercer, had died. When the county was formed in …

• Donaghho Pottery

  … were decorated with advertisements for retail establishments. When thoroughly dry, the ware was placed in a bottle kiln to be fired. Donaghho pottery was salt-glazed, with damp salt reacting in the hot kiln to produce a sodium aluminum silicate glaze. …

• Dow Chemical Company

  … . He also developed new processes for creating chemical compounds, including chloroform; carbon tetrachloride, an essential ingredient in fire extinguishers, cleaning fluids, and industrial solvents; and lead arsenate, which was used widely as a pesticide …

• Battle of Droop Mountain

  … ":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1996 on the crest of Droop Mountain. Following nearly six hours of continual artillery fire, musketry, and hand-to-hand combat, Averell’s infantry broke the Confederate left flank at ‘‘the Bloody Angle.’’ …

• Railroad Strike of 1877

  … train that attempted to leave the railroad yard in Martinsburg. A striker fired upon the militiamen and was mortally wounded by return fire. The militia then withdrew and refused to take further action against the …

• Drover’s Inn

  … been known as the Inn at Fowlerstown. The handsome Greek Revival main structure, two and a half stories tall, was built of bricks fired on the property. Related buildings, including a log house and a frame house older than the inn itself, stand nearby. In …