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• Martinsburg Roundhouse

  … .org/articles/948 troops during the Civil War. A new shop complex was … Albert Fink, a renowned 19th-century civil engineer and railroad economist. The roundhouse is … restored. The roundhouse, a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark, is the oldest …

• National Park Service in West Virginia

  … was authorized as a national monument on June 30, 1944, commemorating Harpers Ferry’s importance in the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1193, as the site of "John Brown’s 1859 …

• Roy Bird Cook

  … and received the Award of Merit from the West Virginia Library Association in 1957. Cook collected Civil War and early West Virginia documents and memorabilia, including correspondence from Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. …

• Natural Gas and Petroleum

  … United States. By the outbreak of the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1193, fortunes were being made in the … West Virginia on June 20, 1863. After the Civil War, another person who profited from the rush …

• Natural Resources

  … industrialists began to mine coal and drill for oil and gas. Significant oil production began after the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1193 and peaked at about 16 million barrels in 1901. …

• John McCausland

  Confederate General John McCausland (September 13, 1836-January 22, 1927) was born in St. Louis. When his parents died in 1843, he came to live with relatives in Henderson, (West) Virginia, near Point Pleasant. He later attended Virginia Military …

• Counties

  … was the quarter-century preceding the Civil War, when nearly half of … of the end of the Civil War. Two of the new … named for heroes of the war. A third, "Mineral": … county commissioners, and occasional ‘‘courthouse wars’’ have broken out over the …

• Country Doctors

  … ), James ‘‘read medicine’’ under his father’s supervision and later attended Cincinnati Medical College. When the Civil War broke out James Putney joined the Union side as a surgeon and was sent into battle in …

• McDowell County

  … .org/articles/975. After the Revolutionary War, the federal government granted vast … from sporadic guerrilla warfare, the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia. … being destroyed. The "Kimball War Memorial":http://www.wvencyclopedia. …

• New Cumberland

  … finally resolved the matter, and New Cumberland became the permanent county seat. In 1862, during the Civil War, Company I, 12th Regiment, West Virginia Volunteer Infantry was organized in New Cumberland. Among the …

• North Bend State Park

  … -style house situated down the hill from the park lodge. Andrew S. Core, a Union general in the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1193, had a home at the site of the lodge. North Bend …

• North House Museum

  … the period from the "Revolutionary War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/70 through "World War II":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1353. The collections include "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Northwestern Virginia Railroad

  … Virginia. Benjamin Latrobe, a well-known early railroad civil engineer, was made chief engineer for the new … higher than anticipated, and the railroad was a financial disappointment until the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1193 …

• Northwestern Virginia Turnpike

  … ’s Unionist tendencies in the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org … financial obligations throughout the 1850s. The Civil War was unkind to the Northwestern Turnpike. The new state of … and by the end of the war the road was nearly impassible. …

• Julia Davis

  … experiences with two Spanish children who came to stay with her as a result of upheavals during the Spanish Civil War. In 1974, she and William Adams remarried. After his death in 1986, Julia Davis lived and continued …

• Rebecca Harding Davis

  … focuses on the exploitation of workers, while _David Gaunt_ probes moral and political conflicts raised by the Civil War. The publication of ‘‘Life in the Iron Mills’’ led to the author’s correspondence with a young …

• Mennonites

  … mountain to the west. During the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … replaced the circuit riders. During "World War I":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … guided his flock not to purchase war bonds. District Attorney Stuart W. …

• Orchards

  … to have prospered until the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia. … growing in the Northern Panhandle, the Civil War resulted in the beginning … 1851. At the start of the Civil War, Miller had a large … at the close of the war had nearly 4,000 peach …

• Organ Cave

  … The cave was mined for saltpeter to manufacture gunpowder during both the War of 1812 and the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1193. Some of the wooden hoppers used to leach nitrates …

• Milton

  … , was founded in 1809. The church has been restored, but bayonet marks and bullet holes from the Civil War can still be seen. Writer "Breece D’J Pancake":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1806 ( …

• Paint Creek-Cabin Creek Strike

  … labor struggles in southern West Virginia known as the "Mine Wars":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1799. The strike began … was a flagrant abuse of their rights to be tried in civil courts, a hundred or more of these civilians were court- …

• Mineral Springs

  … the demise of the spring resorts. The destruction that occurred during the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … changing social system in the South after the war were contributing factors, as were better medical …

• Parkersburg

  … brought important land links to the Ohio River at Parkersburg. New development followed. During the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1193, 3,000 Wood Countians, many from Parkersburg, served …

• Christopher H. Payne

  … compelled to serve as a body servant in the Confederate Army during the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1193. He attended night school in Charleston after the war and taught school in Monroe, Mercer, and …

• Francis Harrison Pierpont

  … /2307. In the opening days of the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1193, Pierpont spoke frequently and forcefully for … government at Alexandria. At the end of the Civil War and at the direction of President …