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• Jenkins Raid

  … into the Tygart Valley, skirmishing briefly with U.S. forces near Huttonsville. On August 30, the raiders attacked and occupied Buckhannon, where they captured 20 prisoners, 5,000 stands of small arms, and a vast supply of ordnance, stores and clothing. …

• Jones-Imboden Raid

  … -prong attack, with Imboden riding from Staunton through Beverly to Buckhannon with 3,365 men. Jones led 2,100 men through … across the Monongahela River. Jones linked up with Imboden at Buckhannon, skirmishing along the way, and together they moved to Weston …

• West Virginia State Teachers’ Association

  … of directors and officers. In 1907, Black teachers from northern areas such as Fairmont, Clarksburg, Elkins, Grafton, and Buckhannon formed a separate organization called the Northern Teachers’ Association. No information exists as to why the northern …

• West Virginia State Wildlife Center

  The West Virginia State Wildlife Center, south of Buckhannon, is a 338-acre zoological facility operated by the "Division of Natural Resources":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1605. It was previously known as the French Creek Game Farm. …

• Mary Kinnan

  … the child. Kinnan herself was captured and held prisoner. It is believed that she was taken by her captors to a point near the Buckhannon River, then down the Ohio by way of the Little Kanawha. She was then taken to a village near Fort Wayne on the Maumee …

• Jean Lee Latham

  Author Jean Lee Latham (April 19, 1902-June 13, 1995) was born in Buckhannon. She pursued a number of careers before beginning to write books for children and young adults. After graduating from "West Virginia Wesleyan College":http://www. …

• World War II

  … . Known as ‘‘Mother Oates,’’ the Monongalia County native reached thousands of readers and radio listeners during the war. Buckhannon native Jean Lee Latham learned to repair radio equipment for the Signal Corps. The award-winning author found herself …

• Lewis County

  … the city. The development of modern highways made the railroad less important, and the rails linking Weston with Clarksburg and Buckhannon were taken up. A branch line continues to operate across the southern part of the county, hauling coal from Braxton, …

• Locks and Dams

  … by locks and dams. Among these are the "Cheat River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1122, "Buckhannon River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/686, "New River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1637, " …

• Pare Lorentz

  … where Leonard went one year to "West Virginia Wesleyan College":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1135 in Buckhannon. He then transferred to "West Virginia University":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1127, there honing his …

• Minnie Kendall Lowther

  … _Methodist Protestant Church Record_. Her most significant editorial post was as editor and part owner of the _Upshur Record_ of Buckhannon, for several years prior to 1920. About 1920, Lowther moved to Washington. Here she gave tours at Mount Vernon; …

• Division of Natural Resources

  … created the Game and Fish Commission. The three commissioners were appointed by the governor, with G. O. Young of Buckhannon as the first chairman. The commissioners were given the authority to appoint the chief game protector and district deputies. A. B. …

• Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

  … 26, 1960, when she married Rex V. Naylor and visited Grafton, Buckhannon, and Preston County, places where he and his family had … a 12-part boys versus girls series set in a fictional Buckhannon; and _Wrestle the Mountain_ is based on the "Farmington …

• Irene McKinney

  … O’clock Mine Report_ (1989), _Vivid Companion_ (2004), and _Unthinkable: Selected Poems 1976-2004_ (2009). Irene McKinney died in Buckhannon. She was succeeded as poet laureate by "Marc Harshman":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2390.

• John Camillus McWhorter

  … (or Buckongahelas) as the Indian namesake of the "Buckhannon River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/686 and the town of "Buckhannon":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/682. McWhorter wove the …

• Midwifery

  … Brake of Valley Head began midwifery in 1921; her physician told her how to do it, and she did. Hazel Libert in the Buckhannon-Elkins area had no instruction, but she lived on a farm and had aided the farm animals on many occasions. These three delivered …

• Jayne Anne Phillips

  Novelist Jayne Anne Phillips was born in "Buckhannon":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/682 on July 19, 1952. She attended "West Virginia University":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1127, graduating magna cum laude in 1974. …

• Harry Powers

  … later made into a critically acclaimed motion picture. In 2013, Powers and the Eicher murders were the subject of the novel _Quiet Dell_ by author "Jayne Anne Phillips":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1849, a native of Buckhannon.

• Pringle Tree

  … the confluence of Turkey Run and the Buckhannon River in present Upshur County. The … , the Pringles found the wilderness of the Buckhannon Valley a perfect hide-out. Upon … on U.S. 119 north of "Buckhannon":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ …

• The Monongahela River

  … of Pittsburgh. An aroused public supposedly pointed to the timbered and burned-over watersheds of the Monongahela tributaries—the Cheat, Buckhannon, West Fork, and Tygart Valley rivers—as the cause. Congress passed the Weeks Law in 1911, providing for the …

• Fowler Maps

  … four maps each year in West Virginia, creating views of such towns as Harrisville, Philippi, Cairo, New Martinsville, Morgantown, Bayard, Buckhannon, Weston, and, in a rare journey into the southern coalfields in 1911, Keystone. Bird’s-eye maps gained …

• Germans

  … his family later moved to what is today north-central West Virginia, eventually settling farms in the Tygart, West Fork, and Buckhannon river valleys. Some of them settled along a tributary of Hackers Creek in what in 1816 became "Lewis County": …

• Millard F. Giesey

  … , which is now Agnes Howard Hall, at "West Virginia Wesleyan College":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1135 in Buckhannon. In July 1899, he formed his partnership with Faris, and they maintained offices in the Masonic Temple Building in …

• Fishing

  … Hayes Jr. of Nitro caught a 52.5-inch, 43-pound muskie in Elk River in 1955. In 1997, Anna Marsh of Buckhannon, fishing from the shoreline at "Stonecoal Lake":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/595, topped the previous record weight by more …

• Fairmont State University

  … of students, consisting of 17 females and 13 males, occupied the new building in April 1869. In 1871, Hyre D. Clark of Buckhannon was the first graduate. That same year, James G. Blair became the principal, the fifth person to head the school in six …