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  • Elizabeth

    Elizabeth is the county seat of "Wirt County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1321. William Beauchamp settled there in 1796. Beauchamp farmed 1,400 acres at Tucker’s Riffle on the "Little Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia …

  • Aretas Brooks Fleming

    … the region. Fleming studied law at the University of Virginia and began his practice in Fairmont during the Civil War. He was not rich, but he was well-born and able. He followed the Virginia tradition of …

  • Stephen B. Elkins

    … a notorious outlaw, and Younger once saved Elkins from Confederate guerrillas during the Civil War. Elkins, whose father and brothers were … Wheeling. President Harrison appointed him secretary of war two years later, in 1891. The West …

  • The Environment

    … diminished, settlers cleared the widest and richest valleys and floodplains. By the time of the Civil War, the railroad had crossed the northern mountains to Parkersburg and Wheeling. "Iron furnaces" …

  • Lord Thomas Fairfax

    … village of White Post, near Winchester, and became active in civil, local military, and religious affairs. Fairfax steered a careful … neither he nor his property was molested during the Revolutionary War by either Americans or British. He died at Greenway …

  • Fairmont

    … www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1853, governor of the Reorganized Government of Virginia during the Civil War, came from Fairmont, as did four … and flew more than 100 missions during World War II. Other notable people born in Fairmont …

  • Daniel D. T. Farnsworth

    Governor and state founder Daniel Duane Tompkins Farnsworth (December 23, 1819-December 5, 1892) was West Virginia’s second chief executive and the one to serve the shortest term (February 26 to March 4, 1869). Born on Staten Island, New York, …

  • Fesenmeier Brewery

    … Cumberland, Maryland, where they had been brewing beer since shortly after the Civil War. They purchased a defunct brewery located in what was then known as … That’ll Win Ya.’’ In the post-World War II era, however, small brewers such as …

  • Filmmaking

    … the Heavens Weep_, a 1983 "Mine Wars":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1799 … films as _A Principled Man_ (2000) about civil rights leader "Leon Sullivan":http … . Much of _Gods and Generals_, a Civil War movie that included a cameo …

  • Barger Springs

    … from 1903 to 1929. The spring property was first developed commercially prior to the Civil War. Owner Isaac Carden established a lodging place … at his spring. Between the end of the Civil War and 1903, the property was farmed by …

  • Beverly

    … 584, lay at a strategic highway junction. The "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1193, from the time of the nearby & … suffered much damage in the course of the war, while serving as an important supply and command …

  • William Nelson Page

    … Arms Hospital":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/385 in Hansford, Page belonged to the post-Civil War group of ‘‘New South’’ promoters who envisioned rapid growth and progress to be achieved by …

  • Pierpont Community and Technical College

    … "Reorganized Government of Virginia":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/62 during the the Civil War. Pierpont Community and Technical College, which generally represents a 13-county region of central and …

  • Romeo Freer

    … , Ohio. He served in two infantry regiments of the Union army during the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1193. Following the war, Freer moved to Charleston where he taught school and studied …

  • William H. H. Flick

    … in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. He served in an infantry regiment of the Union army during the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1193, was wounded at the battle of Shiloh and discharged in 1862 …

  • The Semi-Centennial

    … 20, 1913, featured a “grand parade,” which included Civil War veterans, active army and cadet military units, bands, school groups, and social … Mann, then the governor of Virginia and a Civil War veteran, had been invited to attend to …

  • National Natural Landmarks

    … Cave":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/50 in Monroe County, where saltpeter was mined during the Civil War, and the Sinnett-Thorn Mountain Cave System in Pendleton County, which features waterfalls and deep …

  • Battle of Shepherdstown

    On the evening of September 18, 1862, the day after the bloody Battle of Antietam, Confederate General "Robert E. Lee":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1340 quietly pulled his troops from a position near the town of Sharpsburg, Maryland. …

  • James E. Taylor

    … in the Union Army at the outbreak of the "Civil War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1193 and … diary titled _With Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, 1864_. Traveling west after the Civil War, Taylor established a second reputation as an …

  • Woodlawn Cemetery

    … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1853, who was governor of the unionist Reorganized Government of Virginia during the Civil War era and a founder of West Virginia. Pierpont’s wife Julia Robertson Pierpont also is buried …

  • Monsignor Thomas Quirk

    … of the Union army during the "Civil War":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … in several skirmishes throughout Virginia during the war. In 1865 Quirk returned to Ireland. … been the last remaining survivor of the Civil War in Lewis County. Upon his …

  • School Consolidation

    … as places to vote. They were the symbols of civilization itself in many communities. School and school district consolidations … Depression":http://Great Depression and after "World War II":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1353. The …

  • Ken Hechler

    Congressman and historian Ken Hechler (September 20, 1914 - December 10, 2016) was born on Long Island, New York. He graduated from Swarthmore College, later earning M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Columbia University. He taught at Columbia and Barnard College …

  • William Wallace Barron

    William Wallace Barron (December 8, 1911-November 12, 2002) was West Virginia’s 26th "governor":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2218. He achieved a remarkable record of legislative success during his term, brought national attention to …

  • Black Lung Movement

    … encouraged miners to take matters into their own hands. "Poverty War":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/885 volunteers such as Craig Robinson, familiar with civil protest, joined in the call for grassroots action, and in …

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