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• Burning Springs Raid

  In April and May 1863, Confederate Generals William E. Jones and "John D. Imboden":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/833 conducted an extensive raid into West Virginia. Their plan called for destruction of all railroad bridges and trestles …

• Burnsville

  … a "sawmill":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/185 there shortly after the end of the Civil War, in 1866. Later industries included the manufacture of wagons by a group including Fidler, Bodkins, …

• Burnsville Dam

  … is part of the reservoir complex, includes structures dating back to the mid-to late-1800s, a Civil War battlefield, and a visitors center. The 12,256-acre Burnsville Lake Wildlife Management Area provides excellent …

• Tobacco

  … ":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2280 had the first tobacco warehouse, which closed prior to the Civil War. By the late 19th century millions of pounds of burley was stored and auctioned at tobacco …

• Tourism

  … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/569, "Civil War":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … to the "West Virginia Mine Wars":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/270, showcase the Civil War era, while state parks …

• W. E. R. Byrne

  … He was born in Fort Defiance, Virginia. After the Civil War, during which his father served as a Confederate officer, the family moved to West … school in Wheeling and Charleston, worked as a civil engineer, and studied law with his uncle, …

• Tygart Valley River

  … from the days of early settlement and the Indian wars. The upper valley is a natural thoroughfare, … /articles/584. The turnpike was traversed by Northern and Southern troops in the Civil War, and in 1861 a major battle was fought at nearby Rich Mountain. …

• Underground Railroad

  … did exist in West Virginia and helped numerous slaves obtain their freedom in the years preceding the Civil War. Some of the most detailed accounts of escapes in the Eastern Panhandle are in "William …

• Johnson Newlon Camden

  … . Camden’s business interests linked him to Northern Republicans during and after the Civil War, but he was a member of the … was filled with ex-Confederates in the post-war years. The West Virginia legislature elected Camden to …

• United Bank

  … was established in Jeffersonville (now Tazewell), in southwestern Virginia. After the outbreak of the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1193, the Virginia legislature split off the Jeffersonville …

• George W. Imboden

  Born in Augusta County, Virginia, George William Imboden (June 25, 1836-January 8, 1922) became a distinguished attorney, Confederate soldier, and a leading citizen of Ansted. After attending Staunton Academy, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in …

• Indian Mound Cemetery

  … the river. The cemetery, which covers at least two acres of ground, was started shortly before the Civil War. It is named for a large Indian mound near its southeast corner. The mound is approximately 15 feet in …

• Vernacular Architecture

  … served as Union’s Female Academy from 1840 to the Civil War. Even earlier, in 1790, Owen Neel II … founded by German-speaking Swiss immigrants just after the Civil War. Second-generation buildings took advantage of Helvetia’s first steam sawmill in 1887. …

• Virginia v. West Virginia

  Following the Civil War, Virginia sued West Virginia in the U.S. Supreme Court in the case known as _Virginia v. West Virginia_, seeking to reclaim "Berkeley":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/455 and "Jefferson" …

• Virginius Island

  … www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/263, was a thriving industrial area in the decades before the Civil War. Island industry suffered devastation during the war, including the destruction and dismantling of machinery, bombardment, …

• Booker T. Washington

  … the Kanawha Valley. Union victory in the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1193 had freed the family, and … escaped from slavery in Franklin County during the war. Malden afforded young Washington the opportunity to …

• Washington Family

  … of Virginia, in the years surrounding the Revolutionary War the Washington family began a migration that carried … Lee, was killed in Randolph County during the Civil War. Colonel Washington was reconnoitering the Union position at Elkwater when he was shot …

• Ironmaking

  … Monroe being the single outlying exception. By the Civil War, the majority of Western Virginia’s iron … extent to the competition of inexpensive anthracite iron from eastern Pennsylvania. Following the Civil War, newly created West Virginia’s charcoal iron …

• Waterpower

  … a log gristmill in the early 1800s on the east side of the West Fork River in Lewis County, where the Civil War general worked as a boy. The place was soon known as "Jackson’s Mill":http://www. …

• Cannel Coal

  … almost every county in West Virginia had a coal oil plant within its boundaries. The onset of the Civil War deflated the boom although in January 1862 the Richmond _Enquirer_ reported that the Kanawha area produced 5,000 …

• Allen Taylor Caperton

  … , married Caperton’s sister. A Whig prior to the Civil War, he represented Monroe County in the Virginia House … Senate, a position he held throughout the Civil War. After the war, Caperton, by then a "Democrat":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Jackson Family

  In government, politics, business, industry, and military affairs, few West Virginia families have produced more persons of distinction than the Jacksons. The family was descended from John (1716–1801) and Elizabeth Cummins Jackson (1720–1825), of Scotch- …

• Capital Punishment

  … death for the murder of Edward C. O’Brien. The international attention given to human rights in the wake of World War II led many western nations to reconsider capital punishment. Much of western Europe discontinued the practice, and opposition to the …

• Webster County

  … before the outbreak of the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia. … coal mining boomed during "World War II":https://www.wvencyclopedia. … at the end of World War II. In 2009, over 4. … in 1940. The years following World War II saw a decline of …

• John Jeremiah Jacob

  … John J. Jacob, was a captain in the Revolutionary War, a Methodist minister, and sheriff of Hampshire County. … of West Virginians who had served the South during the Civil War. The new constitution changed the gubernatorial term from two years to four, and …