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• Hinton

  … quot;:https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/623. Hinton was built on land purchased by … site of several early farms and communities. Hinton hosts two major annual events, the … Scott broke ground on Batteau Beach at Hinton Landing--a two-acre riverfront park …

• Hinton News

  … was constructed by Ogden in 1926 and opened January 4, 1927. On April 23, 1947, John and Tom Faulconer of "Hinton":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/378 purchased the newspaper. They continued its operation until March 1, 1973, when they …

• Star House

  … /2155, the ‘‘star house’’ in "Hinton":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles … house is now part of the Hinton National Historic District. Most residential development … both tiers, a common feature in Hinton residential architecture. The star house …

• Bluestone Dam and Lake

  Bluestone Dam, located at "Hinton":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/378 … supplier of public water in 1997, serving Hinton and Princeton and a large area … to the dam, in a partnership between Hinton and other communities and private industry. …

• Charles Henry Laws

  … , and in 1922 he relocated to "Hinton":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1258 marching through Hinton in 1924. Nonetheless, when a new … in 1927, following the merger of Hinton with nearby Avis and Bellepoint, …

• Greenbrier River

  … the "New River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1637 at Hinton in Summers County. From Durbin to Hinton, the Greenbrier flows 162 miles. The river’s drainage area of 1,656 square miles includes …

• River Transportation

  … , "Monongahela":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2018, and even on a short stretch of the New River at Hinton. There were three major types of steamboats: the packetboat, carrying passengers and limited freight between cities and towns; …

• Sandstone Falls

  … creating Sandstone Falls is made of Stony Gap sandstone of the Hinton Formation, deposited as sand during the Mississippian Period of geologic … . Sandstone Falls is located eight and a half miles below Hinton. On the east side of the gorge, an overlook …

• Appalachian Regional Hospitals

  … . As of 2023, the corporation operated 12 hospitals in Kentucky and two in West Virginia. The West Virginia facilities are the Beckley ARH Hospital and the Summers County ARH Hospital in "Hinton":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/378.

• History of West Virginia

  … workers. Wheeling had more than 40 percent of the union craft workers in the state. Wheeling, Fairmont, Clarksburg, Charleston, Hinton, Morgantown, and Parkersburg had central labor organizations made up of the craft unions. The most powerful union in …

• ‘‘Billy Richardson’s Last Ride’’

  … affable engineer developed a habit of leaning far out of the right cab window. Richardson’s usual run was from "Hinton":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/378 to "Huntington":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/751 and back. …

• Bluestone State Park

  Bluestone State Park, near Hinton, entered the West Virginia park system in 1955. Named for the "Bluestone River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/577, the park is located on the 2,000-acre "Bluestone Lake":http://www. …

• Summers County

  … encompasses 367.6 square miles. "Hinton":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles … Bottom, several miles upstream from present Hinton. These settlements were all erased … required hundreds of workers for its Hinton maintenance operations. The city’s …

• Cabell County

  … to the New River Gorge originates in Huntington and takes railroad buffs and autumn foliage observers across the state to Hinton each fall. County elected officials include three county commissioners, a county clerk, a sheriff, a prosecuting attorney, an …

• Irish

  … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/868 in Raleigh County. The building of the C&O Railway brought many Irish into the latter area, giving Hinton, the Summers county seat, a strong Irish presence and a St. Patrick’s Church, one of six in the state. In Kanawha …

• Irish Mountain

  … ;:http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/124 church in Raleigh County. It was a mission church of St. Patrick’s in "Hinton":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/378, whose pastors held monthly Sunday services at St. Colman. The 1880 census …

• Thomas Walker

  … ":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1637 and "Greenbrier":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/33 rivers at present Hinton, and ascended most of the Greenbrier. In an active career of government service, Walker served in the House …

• The Cardinal

  … /1143 main line through West Virginia. From the east, the train enters the state near White Sulphur Springs, proceeds to Hinton, passes through the New River Gorge towns of Prince and Thurmond, and continues to Montgomery, Charleston, and Huntington. …

• Carnegie Hall

  Industrialist Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) built thousands of libraries, including libraries in Hinton, Huntington, and Parkersburg, but only four Carnegie Hall performing arts centers, in "Lewisburg":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1369, …

• Carnegie Libraries

  … , 1903), Bethany College— $20,000 (March 1905), "Hinton":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/378-$12,500 … org/articles/475, and public libraries were completed in Hinton, Huntington, and Parkersburg. The communities rejecting Carnegie grants …

• West Virginia Water Festival

  … show originally scheduled for Tennessee was canceled there and moved to Hinton. The show proved successful as a reported 10,000 people … to draw a crowd and were financial failures. In 1961, the Hinton Jaycees decided to turn the show into a full festival …

• Chesapeake & Ohio Railway

  … Sulphur Springs in the east, and towns in between such as Hinton and "Thurmond":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/721. … and difficult because of the mountains between Covington and Hinton. West of Hinton the line followed the New River for a …

• Whitewater Rafting

  … and a season that could begin as early as March and run through October. Congress named the 53-mile section between Hinton and Fayetteville the "New River Gorge National River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1641 in 1978 (now National …

• Coal

  … in the southeastern part of the state. Thin, laterally discontinuous coal beds occur in the Lower Mississippian Bluefield, Hinton, and Bluestone formations in southern West Virginia. All of West Virginia’s commercial coal production comes from …

• Maryat Lee

  … 1970, seeking Appalachian roots, Lee moved to Powley Creek, near Hinton in Summers County. Here she established Eco Theater as an … and wrote other plays, including _John Henry_ (1979) and _The Hinton Play_ (1980). In 1984, Lee moved to Lewisburg and worked …