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• James Gang

  … fuel the rumor. In fact, Elkins had taught Cole Younger in school, and Younger had befriended him during the Civil War. There was at least some contact between Elkins and Younger in later life.

• James Produce Company

  … free Black from Ohio, who established the family in West Virginia at the end of the Civil War. The business prospered, wagons were purchased, and warehouses in "Charleston":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org …

• James River & Kanawha Canal

  … River was improved by clearing channels, dredging, and building wing dams. Although the Civil War brought the project to a halt, work … the improving railroad and road systems following the Civil War. The James River & Kanawha Company …

• John S. Carlile

  … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/62, which would maintain a pro-Union government for Virginia throughout the Civil War. It was Carlile’s "‘‘Declaration of the People of Virginia,’’":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org …

• Battle of Carnifex Ferry

  In July 1861, Union forces pushed the Confederates out of the Kanawha Valley and occupied the strategic "Gauley Bridge":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2093 area. In August the Confederates launched a counterattack to regain control of …

• James River & Kanawha Turnpike

  … was a significant east-west passage until the Civil War. Completion of the "Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad":http://www.wvencyclopedia. … that lasted until the automobile era. By World War I, the Kanawha route experienced a rebirth …

• Jehovah’s Witnesses

  … their zeal in proselytizing and later for their refusal to salute the flag and what was seen as unpatriotic behavior as World War II approached. In the 1940s, they were violently attacked, often with the complicity of government officials, in Bluefield, …

• Castle Rock

  Castle Rock in "Pineville":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1858 is a perpendicular formation over 130 feet in height, carved from Pineville Sandstone of the New River Series by the "Guyandotte River":http://www.wvencyclopedia. …

• West Liberty University

  … would not be built until 1920. The Civil War caused enrollment declines, and by … from 1888 to 1925. The post-World War I period proved unsettling. State education … to West Liberty State College. With World War II under way, enrollments plummeted from …

• Job’s Temple

  … /articles/2110, had its origins in the differences leading up to the Civil War. The church was an offshoot of an earlier congregation, Pisgah Methodist Episcopal … the exception of three years during World War II when gasoline was rationed and during …

• Joseph Johnson

  … was appointed a constable, and during the War of 1812 he became captain of the … Bridgeport area, he left and spent the war years near Staunton. Returning to Bridgeport and … new state of West Virginia after the war, Johnson spent his remaining years there. …

• Charles Town

  … from Berkeley in 1801. After the Civil War, the county government was moved … during the West Virginia "Mine Wars":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles … ’s provisional constitution. During the "Civil War":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org …

• West Virginia History

  … in early issues of _West Virginia History_ covered aspects of the Civil War, antebellum, and frontier eras. The Civil War remains popular among article subjects, but, reflecting trends in historical study, since the late …

• West Virginia Independence Hall

  … , West Virginia Independence Hall is now a museum dedicated to the history of statehood and the Civil War. Located in downtown "Wheeling":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1168, the three-story structure was …

• John Joseph Kain

  … He dedicated the seven years he spent as pastor there to rebuilding the communities after the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1193. In May 1875, Kain succeeded the Right Reverend Richard …

• Lemuel Chenoweth

  Bridge builder Lemuel Chenoweth (June 25, 1811-August 26, 1887) was born near "Beverly":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2269, Randolph County. On June 23, 1836, he married Nancy Ann Hart, the great-granddaughter of John Hart, a signer of …

• Kanawha Salt Company

  … over-expanded during the boom years surrounding the War of 1812. As a result, salt prices … attempted became common business practice in the post-Civil War United States as arrangements for concert and combination spread to other industries.

• West Virginia Wesleyan College

  … of Methodism reunited in 1939, healing a regional split dating back to the Civil War era, the West Virginia Annual Conference decided to discontinue ties with the … –56). As the college grew after World War II, President Stanley H. Martin (1957–72 …

• Kanawha Valley Bank

  … Dickinson became president for the next 43 years. Of the three banks opened in Charleston immediately after the Civil War, Kanawha Valley Bank was the only one to survive the financial panic of 1873. From initial …

• Western Maryland Railway

  … Union Bridge, about 45 miles west of Baltimore, in November 1862. After the Civil War it was extended to Hagerstown in 1872 and then to a nearby … track and terminals took place prior to World War I. John D. Rockefeller had gained a …

• Weston

  … construction was under way when the Civil War began and completed in 1880. The area, alternately occupied by … troops, saw only skirmishes during the war. The state hospital’s economic … .org/articles/2155. After World War II, the "strip mining& …

• Chesapeake & Ohio Railway

  … Virginia in the years after the Civil War. The railroad provided the … Railroad. At the beginning of the Civil War, the Virginia Central extended … at the outbreak of the Civil War. The Virginia Central, located … the Great Lakes. After World War I, the C&O …

• Circuit Riders

  … of the two conferences began to overlap in central West Virginia. When Methodists split before the Civil War into northern and southern branches, generally the churches created by the Holston Conference became Southern …

• Battle of Keslers Cross Lanes

  On the night of August 21, 1861, the Confederate army of Gen. John B. Floyd, some 2,100 strong, crossed the "Gauley River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2096 at Carnifex Ferry, "Nicholas County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Kingwood Tunnel

  … Western Virginia to "Wheeling":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1168. During the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1193, the Confederates tried unsuccessfully to destroy the …