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• Primitive Baptists

  … , southwest Virginia, eastern Kentucky, and in "McDowell":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1631 and "Greenbrier":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2168 counties, West Virginia. There are also out-migrant fellowships in Ohio …

• Doddridge County

  Doddridge County was formed February 4, 1845, from parts of Harrison, Lewis, Ritchie, and Tyler counties. It was named for "Philip Doddridge":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1939, a Western Virginia congressman, state legislator, and …

• Radio

  … conviction and death sentence, Stull claimed that the broadcast had made a ‘‘circus’’ out of her trial. In a retrial in Greenbrier County, she received a life sentence, and served 20 years. Until the mid-1940s, the number of commercial radio stations …

• Droop Mountain

  Droop Mountain, located in Pocahontas and Greenbrier counties in West Virginia, peaks at 3,136 feet. Due to its crouched appearance as seen from the levels of the Greenbrier Valley and Hillsboro, it was originally called ‘‘Drooping Mountain.’’ The …

• Raleigh County

  … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/174 in 1799. In 1797–98, Francis Farley, an old Indian fighter, was employed by three Greenbrier County (now Monroe) merchants to hack a six-foot bridle path through Raleigh westward 115 miles to present Louisa, Kentucky, …

• Dunmore’s War

  … and Fincastle counties. It assembled at Camp Union ("Lewisburg":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1369) in the Greenbrier Valley and journeyed down the Kanawha River to its mouth at "Point Pleasant":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org …

• The Economy

  … .org/articles/782 (Huntington), Raleigh County Memorial (Beckley), Greenbrier Valley (Lewisburg), Mid-Ohio Valley Regional (Parkersburg), … other attractions, such as the world-famous "Greenbrier resort":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/42 …

• Minnehaha Springs

  … of their community. The completion of the "Chesapeake & Ohio Railway’s":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1143 Greenbrier Division to Marlinton in 1900 put the spring within reach of travelers. The spring, named for the Indian maiden of …

• Alan Mollohan

  … of Representatives. He was born in Fairmont on May 14, 1943. For six years, beginning in seventh grade, he attended Greenbrier Military School in Lewisburg. Mollohan went on to graduate from the College of William and Mary and West Virginia University’s …

• Monongahela National Forest

  … 10 counties, extending from Preston in the north to Greenbrier in the south. The forest also includes extensive land … find their headwaters within the forest, including the Elk, Gauley, Greenbrier, Potomac, Cheat, and the Monongahela itself. Seneca Rocks, …

• Monroe County

  … Mexico. Monroe was segmented from "Greenbrier County":https://www.wvencyclopedia. … at Baughman’s Fort on the Greenbrier River. The Literary Fund established … Monroe Countians work at "The Greenbrier resort":http://www.wvencyclopedia. …

• Sara Jane Moore

  … and was taken to the "Federal Penitentiary for Women":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/184 at Alderson in Greenbrier County. Moore’s assassination attempt has never been linked to the earlier attempt by Fromme. In February 1979, Moore …

• Fort Randolph

  … attacked the fort on May 16, 1778. Unable to take Fort Randolph, they proceeded up the Kanawha River toward the Greenbrier settlements. Two militia volunteers disguised as Indians, John Pryor and Philip Hammond, overtook the force and warned the settlers, …

• Fort Savannah

  In 1751, surveyors "Andrew Lewis":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1358 and his father found a large spring at the present site of "Lewisburg":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1369, which they named Lewis Spring. The spring …

• Fossils

  … seawater. Strata of Mississippian age outcrop in the southeastern part of the state, and are extensive in Greenbrier County where they have been quarried for limestone. The Pennsylvanian Period followed the Mississippian. Pennsylvanian shales …

• French and Indian War

  … org/articles/1830 war parties. Settlers newly planted in the Greenbrier and upper New River valleys were killed, captured, … wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1899 when assaults again fell on the Greenbrier, Monongahela, and Potomac frontiers. Finally, in 1764, an …

• Lynette ‘‘Squeaky’’ Fromme

  A follower of cult leader and mass murderer Charles Manson, Lynette ‘‘Squeaky’’ Fromme (October 22, 1948– ) was convicted of trying to kill President Gerald Ford on September 5, 1975, in Sacramento, California. Although she was only two feet from the …

• The Frontier

  … /articles/1358, surveyor for the "Greenbrier Company":https://www.wvencyclopedia. … .org/articles/841 attacked the Greenbrier settlements, killing and capturing more … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1738, Greenbrier, and "Loyal":https:// …

• Frontier Defense

  … the Potomac, the Cacapon River, Patterson Creek, Opequon Creek, and the main Potomac River itself, as well as along the Greenbrier River. Among the better-known forts of this period are "Ashby":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2039, " …

• Donald R. Gaudineer

  Forester Donald R. Gaudineer was district ranger of the Greenbrier Ranger District of the "Monongahela National Forest":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2014 at Bartow from 1926 to 1934, and ranger of the Cheat Ranger District at Parsons …

• Geography

  … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1239 in Greenbrier County. The folded belt ends at … of the front, from Monroe and Greenbrier counties to the Pennsylvania border, … include the New, Gauley, Elk, Cheat, Greenbrier, and Bluestone. About 78 percent of …

• Ghostlore

  … found in our hills. Sometimes such a ghost returns to see that justice is done or that the truth be known. The "Greenbrier Ghost":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2172 is the most famous of these in West Virginia, a young wife whose spirit …

• Ginseng

  … the lowest in 1987 at nearly 9,500 pounds. McDowell County, the southernmost West Virginia county, has averaged the greatest harvest with Wyoming, Logan, Mingo, Boone, Raleigh, Kanawha, Greenbrier, Fayette, and Randolph counties completing the top ten.

• Great Bend Tunnel

  … tunnel on the C&O. The tunnel is straight, 6,450 feet long, and cuts off a seven-mile meander of the Greenbrier River around Big Bend Mountain. Construction began in February 1870 at both ends of the tunnel and in two intermediate shafts, 365 and …

• Education

  … Eastern Panhandle":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1991, Greenbrier Valley, and the "South Branch":https:// … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/125 and in a Greenbrier settlement. "Shepherdstown":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org …