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• Baseball

  … in the Class D Mountain State League (1911–12) and the Class D Ohio State League (1913–16). In 1916, the city built Kanawha Park, a 3,500-seat wooden structure on the site of what later became "Watt Powell Park":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Holly Grove

  … Joseph Ruffner, who had arrived in the Kanawha Valley in 1796. Today the house is … proximity to the "James River & Kanawha Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … with a small entry portico facing the Kanawha River. The walls are 18 inches …

• South Charleston

  South Charleston, located on the "Kanawha River":https://www.wvencyclopedia. … became the "James River & Kanawha Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia. … wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1469 founded the Kanawha Land Company, buying with other …

• Blaine Island

  Located in the Kanawha River at "South Charleston":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/518, this large island was surveyed at 65 acres when bought by the "Union Carbide":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/823 company in 1927. It …

• Battle of Blair Mountain

  In August 1921, armed coal miners from the Kanawha Valley and the southern counties of Boone, Fayette, Mingo, McDowell, and Logan gathered at Marmet in Kanawha County. The miners proposed to march to Logan and Mingo counties to rescue …

• Spring Hill Cemetery, Charleston

  … on the old "James River & Kanawha Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/978, next to the Kanawha River near the present intersection of … . Graves of the famous Confederate "Kanawha Riflemen":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Bill Blizzard

  … Virginia’s most influential and controversial labor leaders of the 20th century. Born in the Cabin Creek district of Kanawha County, Blizzard first became involved with the "United Mine Workers of America":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ …

• Mother Blizzard

  … to her family’s eviction from their home in Kilsyth, Fayette County. The family resettled in the Cabin Creek district of Kanawha County, where Sarah Blizzard allowed striking miners to camp on her land during the violent 1912–13 "Paint Creek-Cabin …

• State Police Academy

  … the academy project under way. Ray found the hilltop location overlooking Institute, consisting of 24 acres purchased from "Kanawha County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1103 for a little more than $3,200. The original appropriation of …

• Ivor F. Boiarsky

  … ":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/502 at the time of his death. He was first elected to the House from "Kanawha County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1103 in 1958 and was chairman of the House Finance Committee prior to his …

• Daniel Boone

  … and his family settled near the mouth of the "Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1123 at & … Pleasant":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1888. He represented Kanawha County in the Virginia General Assembly in 1791 and …

• George William Summers

  … as an "abolitionist":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/7. In 1852, Summers was elected circuit judge of "Kanawha County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1103, an office he held for six years, resigning two years before …

• Sunrise

  Sunrise mansion is one of the most recognizable landmarks in Charleston. The Georgian structure overlooking the Kanawha River and downtown Charleston was built in 1905 by West Virginia’s ninth governor, "William A. MacCorkle":http://www. …

• Ralph Swinburn

  … was employed at the company’s mines on Fields Creek, in Kanawha County. Swinburn was assigned to lay out and build the first … line running from the mines to a barge facility on the Kanawha River. This little railroad preceded the arrival of the mainline C …

• The Bull Moose Special

  … 7, 1913, when strikers from Holly Grove fired on a company ambulance and attacked the store at nearby Mucklow. Later that night, Kanawha County Sheriff Bonner Hill, Paint Creek coal operator Quinn Morton, a number of deputies, mine guards, and C&O …

• Thomas Memorial Hospital

  … .org/articles/2399, a U.S. Marine sergeant, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroism. To remedy the Kanawha Valley’s hospital bed shortage, the city of South Charleston had begun construction of the hospital in 1943. Financed with $ …

• Burning Springs

  The Burning Springs were located on the eastern side of the "Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1123 eight and a half miles above the mouth of "Elk River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2185. These springs …

• Mardi Gras Casino & Resort

  … the legislature authorized local option voting on allowing an expansion of gambling at the state's racetracks. In August 2007, Kanawha County voters narrowly approved table games after a contentious campaign. The table games now offered include blackjack, …

• Cabin Creek Quilts

  … ’ wives and widows in the Cabin Creek area of "Kanawha County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1103. Quilts and … , at the mouth of Cabin Creek. The cooperative moved across the Kanawha River to the village of "Malden":http://www. …

• Union Carbide Corporation

  … and most of the 80-acre Blaine Island in the nearby Kanawha River. Starting in the early 1930s, Union Carbide built … plants, including a Union Carbide methyl isocyanate plant in the Kanawha Valley. In 1989, the Indian government and Union Carbide reached …

• University of Charleston

  … University of Charleston, an independent university situated on the Kanawha River opposite the West Virginia capitol, serves the greater … were placed on the board, and the college affiliated with Kanawha Junior College and the "Mason College of Fine …

• Virginia’s Chapel

  … built in 1853 by William Tompkins Jr., a successful entrepreneur in the early salt and natural gas industries in the Upper Kanawha Valley. The chapel is named for Rachel and William Tompkins’s daughter, Virginia. Constructed of red bricks made on site, …

• Ward Engineering Works

  … on Capitol Street, and then on the south side of the Kanawha River across from downtown. By the 1890s, Ward’s patented water- … as the _Greenbrier_ (1924) and the _Scott_ (1930) which later plied the Kanawha as the excursion boat _P. A. Denny_. Charles Ward …

• Booker T. Washington

  … County, Virginia. He spent his formative years in the Kanawha Valley. Union victory in the "Civil War":http … to "Malden":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1479, Kanawha County, to join Washington Ferguson, Booker’s stepfather, who …

• Camp Piatt

  … of Charleston. The camp was strategically situated on the "Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1123, where … of the 34th Ohio Regiment Zouaves. Rebel sympathizers in the Kanawha Valley detested the soldiers of the 34th Ohio, who …