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• Battle of Guyandotte

  On November 10, 1861, a Confederate cavalry force of more than 700 attacked a Union recruit camp for the Ninth (West) Virginia Infantry regiment at "Guyandotte":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/94 in Cabell County. Led by Col. John …

• Granville Davisson Hall

  … ’s first governor, "Arthur I. Boreman":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/614. After the Civil War, Hall held several positions in the railroad industry and was eventually named president of the …

• Roman Catholics

  … bishop. The Allegheny Mountains were used as the initial boundary of the new diocese. The outbreak of the Civil War and the creation of the new state of West Virginia in 1863 meant that diocesan and state …

• Edden Hammons

  … for its music and traditional ways, which had migrated into the Webster-Pocahontas area just before the Civil War. Family recollections say the Hammons clan is descended from an Edwin Hammons who emigrated from Belfast, …

• St. John’s Chapel

  … www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2210, was also a Virginia governor, the secretary of war on the eve of the Civil War, and a Confederate general. She converted to Catholicism in her late teens. William Lynn Lewis’s …

• St. Joseph’s Hospital

  … new hospital. Sister Immaculate Feeney was the first administrator; she had served at Wheeling Hospital during the Civil War. The hospital’s nursing school opened in 1905 and operated until 1969. Many of the hospital …

• St. Lawrence Boom and Manufacturing Company

  … ":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/185. Although some timber was moved on the Greenbrier before the Civil War, the major use of the river for this purpose was during the harvest of the white pine …

• Agriculture

  … late 1700s and early 1800s. By the time of the Civil … lines were mostly lacking. The Civil War brought crushing setbacks, but … . Cattle numbers peaked during World War II at 628,000 head … rapidly during and following World War II, largely in response to …

• Salt Sulphur Springs

  … who advocated the right of states to nullify federal legislation. The resort closed following the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1193, during which the property was used by both …

• Sawmills

  … 15 such mills in Western Virginia. With the coming of the first railroads shortly before the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1193, the number of steam mills rapidly expanded, and by 1880 …

• Alderson Broaddus University

  … of Alderson Broaddus extend back to post-Civil War Virginia, and to the … of Edward Jefferson Willis, peripatetic adventurer, war hero, and devout "Baptist& … change for the institution. Having weathered wars, depressions, and social upheavals, Alderson- …

• Nathan B. Scott

  … most powerful men by 1900,’’ according to historian John Alexander Williams. At the end of the Civil War, Scott entered the "glass industry":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2116 in Bellaire, …

• Sectionalism and the Virginias

  … for by the inhabitants of the Trans-Allegheny section. By then, it was too late. When the Civil War came, westerners were sufficiently divided over the issues of states rights and slavery to allow outside forces …

• Appalachia

  … west, and after the "Revolutionary War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … a national identity after the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org … of development itself. After "World War II":http://www.wvencyclopedia. …

• Hardy County Heritage Weekend

  … the annual event encompasses the gracious antebellum houses of the area, traditional crafts, food, music, and Civil War reenactments. Heritage Weekend is still one of the few occasions when tournament riding, or …

• Harpers Ferry National Historical Park

  … http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/668, the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … protect portions of the "1862 Harpers Ferry Civil War campaign and battlefield":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/268 from modern …

• Architects and Architecture

  … by the phenomenal Grand Central Hotel at nearby White Sulphur. Just before the Civil War, the state of Virginia began construction of … a superb International Style skyscraper just before World War II when the "United Carbon Building& …

• Hatfield Family

  … ) Virginia by the time of the Civil War. There are two founding events in Hatfield family history: A 1792 … .org/articles/856, who led the war against the McCoys, a neighboring Tug … a spirited Tug Fork tug-of-war. Many books and articles have been …

• Mary Lee Settle

  … ’s Auxiliary Air Force during "World War II":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … account of her wartime experiences. Following the war Settle returned to the United States, … them to the outbreak of the Civil War. _Prisons_ (1973), the author’s …

• Shannondale Springs

  … and outbuildings intact. The resort continued to function at a reduced level after the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1193, serving middle-class families, providing facilities for hunting, …

• Shavers Fork

  Shavers Fork is a large tributary of the "Cheat River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1122. From its headwaters in Pocahontas County, it flows through Randolph and Tucker counties, joining the Black Fork near Parsons to form Cheat River …

• Art and Artists

  … illustrator and painter of portraits and "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … Virginia that appeared nationally during the Civil War likely contributed to the new … part, in the decades following the war. Included in this group were Alexander …

• Averell’s Raid

  Averell’s Raid of August 1863 was the first of three Union cavalry raids launched from West Virginia toward Confederate railroads and troop and supply concentrations in western Virginia during the latter half of 1863. The second raid in November …

• Aviation

  … use of airplanes during the European war demonstrated the effectiveness of powered flight … Baron, Baron Von Richtofen, in World War I. Today, aviation manufacturing takes … pioneer of aviation, sponsored the 1938 Civil Aeronautics Act, Federal Airport Act, …

• Hamilton Hatter

  … politics in Jefferson County, where most party members were African-American in the years after the Civil War. When Republicans held their county convention in August 1892, African-Americans worked to have a Black …