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• Midland Trail

  … . In the 1930s, it was paved and reborn as a national highway after the American Automobile Association asked federal authorities to develop a national highway system. Today the Midland Trail is a tourist destination and historic travel route representing …

• Otter Creek Wilderness Area

  … Mountain. Originally, the area consisted of 20,000 acres, but was increased when the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 authorized the purchase of an additional 698 acres. The area was heavily logged by the Otter Creek Boom & Lumber Company …

• James H. Miller

  Judge James Henry Miller (February 9, 1859-February 9, 1929) was an important leader in West Virginia law, politics, education, and business but is best remembered today for his extensive history of "Summers County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org …

• C. F. Millspaugh

  Naturalist Charles Frederick Millspaugh (June 20, 1854-September 15, 1923) was born in Ithaca, New York. He attended Cornell University and went on to receive a medical degree in 1881 from the New York Homeopathic Medical College. Millspaugh played a …

• Mine Safety

  … began to change. West Virginia’s chief mine inspector called for more and better-trained inspectors who would have greater authority to shut down mines operating outside the law. Governor Dawson appointed a commission of miners and mine operators to …

• Miners Health Plan

  … was poor. An official medical survey of the coal industry, authorized by the 1946 agreement and directed by Rear Admiral Joel T … s work led Congress in 1992 to approve the Coal Act, authored by "Sen. Jay Rockefeller":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Pentecostalism

  Pentcostalism is a relatively new religious movement, having its beginnings, most authorities say, in 1901, with the teachings of Midwestern preacher Charles Fox Parham. He taught that speaking in tongues, or glossolalia, would be the movement that would …

• George William Peterkin

  Bishop George William Peterkin (March 21, 1841-September 28, 1916) was born in Washington County, Maryland, and attended the University of Virginia. He was preparing to enter the Episcopal priesthood when the "Civil War":http://www. …

• 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 …

• Piedmont

  … /1711 (1823–1916), who lived in Piedmont early in his life as a storekeeper and railroad agent. The scholar and author "Henry Louis Gates Jr.":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2087 (1950– ), the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and …

• Place Names

  … county seat of Barbour County. There is a historical succession in naming, representing changing times and changes in prevailing authority, which is to say that names change. Native names were supplanted by those of early settlers of European descent, …

• Julius DeGruyter

  Historian and illustrator Julius Allan DeGruyter (October 19, 1894-February 12, 1980) was born in Charleston. His grandfather served as the city’s wharf master, and his father was mayor from 1885 to 1889. Before DeGruyter began to document his city’s …

• Martin Robison Delany

  Activist and physician Martin Robison Delany (May 6, 1812-January 24, 1885) was an African-American who was born free in Charles Town. In 1822, the Delany family was forced to flee for violating a Virginia law forbidding the education of Blacks. The …

• Pocahontas County

  … ) as well as additional blacks. A group of Dutch immigrants arrived in 1847, and descendants of these settlers include the author "Pearl S. Buck":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/676. English immigrants settled in the Linwood-Mingo area, …

• Marmaduke Dent

  … pioneering 1898 civil rights case, "_Carrie Williams v. Board of Education_":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1311. He authored the court's opinion in the case, ruling that black students were entitled to the same length of school term as …

• Diamond Department Store

  … an on-site artist; a discreet wig booth within its beauty salon for patrons with thinning hair; a book store with author signings and luncheons; and store-to-church bridal assistance. Hungry shoppers flocked to the luncheonette on the first floor and the …

• Melville Davisson Post

  Writer Melville Davisson Post (April 19, 1869-June 23, 1930) was born in Harrison County. He became immensely popular as a writer starting with his 1896 short story collection, _The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason_ (Putnam). He continued to publish …

• 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.

• Joseph H. Diss Debar

  Joseph Hubert Diss Debar (March 6, 1820-January 13, 1905) was the designer of the "Great Seal":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/576 of West Virginia and the state’s first "commissioner of immigration":http://www.wvencyclopedia. …

• West Virginia Public Broadcasting

  The West Virginia Educational Broadcasting Authority was established by the legislature in 1963 following a 1962 executive order. The Authority holds the licenses for all West … of West Virginia Public Broadcasting, the Authority is composed of 11 members: …

• Public Health

  … rate from smallpox was reported as being from 12 to 20 percent of reported cases. The Board of Health recommended that authorities urge everyone to be vaccinated, and revaccinated at every remotely suspected exposure to the disease. In 1927, 1,099 cases …

• Board of Public Works

  … , a Board of Public Works exercised great collective executive authority. In 1918, it acquired constitutional status by ratification of … which increased through the years. The board’s most potent authority was control of the state’s finances, including the …

• Daniel Boardman Purinton

  Daniel Boardman Purinton (February 15, 1850-November 27, 1933) was a faculty member and president of "West Virginia University":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1127. He was born in "Preston County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Muriel Miller Dressler

  Poet Muriel Miller Dressler (July 4, 1918-February 27, 2000) was born in Kanawha County. Both sides of her family went back several generations in the Kanawha Valley. She married Lester Dressler (whose family was from Cabin Creek) in 1936. Dressler did …

• Radio

  … before "Governor Barron":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/366 created the West Virginia Educational Broadcasting Authority. The legislature passed public broadcasting legislation in 1963, and Congress passed the Public Broadcasting Act in …