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• Kanawha County

  … the mountains. A number of prominent Kanawha Countians, including George Summers, Spicer … provided year-round navigation on the Kanawha. Several branch railroads opened numerous … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1414. Kanawha County has produced 11 members …

• Kanawha County Textbook Controversy

  In 1974, "Kanawha County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1103 was … began in April, when the five-member Kanawha County Board of Education voted unanimously … was granted an injunction by the Kanawha Circuit Court prohibiting protesters from …

• Kanawha Madonna

  The Kanawha Madonna is a mystery from West Virginia’s prehistoric past. This … almost inaccessible cave in a cliff overlooking the Kanawha River near Chelyan. It was lying on … the society. The origin of the name, Kanawha Madonna, is unknown. The age of the …

• Kanawha Riflemen

  … of Virginia Military Institute, organized the Kanawha Riflemen, a Virginia militia company, … , 11 wounded, and seven captured. The Kanawha Riflemen were soon incorporated into the … ’s wealthy families. Many of the Kanawha Riflemen rest in Charleston’s & …

• Kanawha River

  … Conoy, Conoise, Cohnawa, and finally the Kanawha. Eventually merging with the "Ohio … .org/articles/1740 and Mississippi, the Kanawha forms one continuous stream that does … be used for recreational purposes. The Kanawha River remains the lifeblood of the …

• Kanawha Salines

  … 10 miles along both sides of the Kanawha River, from Witcher Creek downstream to … New York salt and foreign importation affected Kanawha sales, but the area retained its … Ohio Basin and other salt fields developed. Kanawha Salines was also the name of …

• Kanawha State Forest

  … State Forest is located in "Kanawha County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org … campground. Hunting is permitted in season. Kanawha State Forest is managed by … Virginia Division of Natural Resources. The Kanawha State Forest Historic District was …

• Kanawha Valley Bank

  … his sons, and others associated with the Kanawha Valley "salt industry":http:// … bank at the present intersection of Kanawha Boulevard and Capitol Street in downtown … Clay Dickinson was chosen president of Kanawha Valley Bank and also elected mayor …

• Kanawha Valley Hospital

  … nearby Grace Hospital and incorporated as Kanawha Valley Hospital and Sanatorium. In … stockholders and directors sold out to Kanawha Valley Memorial Hospital, a nonprofit … hospital closed its school of nursing. Kanawha Valley Memorial Hospital operated at …

• Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation

  … people primarily from Boone, Clay, Fayette, Kanawha, Lincoln, and Putnam counties. It is … land use, and recreation. The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation began operations in … fund. In 2021, the Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation managed $329 million …

• Adena

  … within the "Ohio River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1740 Valley and along major tributaries such as the Kanawha, Scioto, and Kentucky rivers. This was the time known to archeologists as the Early Woodland Period, and the Adena culture …

• African Zion Baptist Church

  … building was built two decades later. Known then as the "Kanawha Salines":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1129, Malden held … /articles/890, who had come as a boy to the Kanawha Valley when freed from slavery. After graduation from Hampton …

• The Hale House

  … elements of the Italianate and Second Empire styles. The Hale House was located in downtown Charleston, at the corner of Kanawha Street (now Kanawha Boulevard) and Hale Street (near the present South Side bridge). Dr. Hale’s residence was across the …

• John P. Hale

  … Ingles Ferry, then moved to the Kanawha Valley. In 1841–42, he … hotel, across from his residence at Kanawha and Hale streets. In the … Daniel Boone’s years in the Kanawha Valley, and in 1886 he … his _History of the Great Kanawha Valley_. Hale helped found the …

• Ruffner Family

  … become the most valuable land in the Kanawha Valley, descended to his sons. Of … most strongly influenced the development of the Kanawha Valley. He and brother Joseph devised … the first salt well into the Kanawha bedrock, pioneering the industry that would …

• Henry Ruffner

  … Ruffner organized the Presbyterian denomination in Kanawha Valley, from which came the Kanawha Salines Presbyterian Church in "Malden":http://www.wvencyclopedia. … this system with property taxes. Henry Ruffner died in Malden, Kanawha County. …

• Ruffner Hotel

  … on the northwest corner of Hale and Kanawha streets in Charleston. The Ruffner was built … one corner and an elegant portico facing Kanawha Street. Except for the capitol, the … Side Bridge, the first bridge across the Kanawha River, was built almost at the …

• St. Albans

  … town which he had incorporated and named Kanawha City. According to differing accounts, St … and wharf facilities on the "Kanawha River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … first part of the 1900s, when the Kanawha Valley chemical industry was booming. …

• St. Albans Archeological Site

  … artifacts were found on the eroded bank of the "Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1123 at … Stemmed, St. Albans Side Notched, LeCroy Bifurcated Base, and Kanawha Stemmed projectile point types, and obtain better information for …

• Department of Agriculture

  … office, the department maintains facilities at the Gus R. Douglass Agricultural Center at Guthrie in the Sissonville area of Kanawha County; a water quality laboratory in "Moorefield":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2036, Hardy County; …

• Air National Guard

  … 8, 1951, when a C-47 transport filled with 167th personnel going to attend Sutherland’s funeral crashed near "Kanawha (now Yeager International) Airport":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1385, killing 21. To this day, West Virginia Air …

• Gabriel Arthur

  … the first person of European descent to see the "Kanawha Valley":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1103, having … Marmet, about 10 miles southeast of Charleston, on the Kanawha River. The Indians with whom Arthur traveled were welcomed by …

• Mad Anne Bailey

  … has also been credited with "driving livestock":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1966 from the Shenandoah to the Kanawha Valley. Bailey spent her last years in Gallipolis, living near her son, William Trotter. According to tradition, …

• Heck’s

  … West Virginia’s largest furniture store, as well as several out-of-state discount chain competitors. It built a new headquarters on Kanawha Boulevard in Charleston and a distribution center in Nitro. At one point, Heck’s was the only West Virginia company …

• Sheltering Arms Hospital

  … Peterkin":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1840 became concerned about the social and medical needs of miners in the Kanawha and New River coalfields. In 1887, Peterkin formed a corporation to provide charitable and medical services in the …