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• Mad Anne Bailey

  … Virginia history is tied to an event that may not have happened. She is often credited with carrying gunpowder from "Lewisburg":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1369 to relieve a 1790 siege on "Fort Lee":http://www.wvencyclopedia. …

• Banking

  … Morgantown and Point Pleasant. The Exchange Bank of Virginia in Norfolk was established in 1837, with branches in Weston and Lewisburg. There were private banks as well, operating without charter, and some residents relied on banks in neighboring states. …

• Hillbilly

  … with three black servants out for an elaborate picnic in a wooded setting in Greenbrier County. These prosperous people from Lewisburg most certainly knew the word hillbilly as a designation for social inferiors, yet someone of this group boldly hand- …

• Short-Line Railroads

  … meaning that goods did not have to be unloaded and reloaded. The Lewisburg & Ronceverte brought rail service to Lewisburg in 1907. It was converted to electric operation, but soon succumbed. There were many lines …

• Holidays and Celebrations

  … costumed "Shanghai parade":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/290, of indeterminate origin, marks the New Year in Lewisburg. West Virginia is among the few states to observe its own birthday as an official holiday, with citizens statewide …

• Homer Adams Holt

  … the term was changed from March to January. Holt was born in Lewisburg. He attended the forerunner of the "Greenbrier Military Academy& … he returned to private practice in Charleston until his death. He is buried in Rosewood Cemetery, Lewisburg.

• Battle of Blair Mountain

  … , "who was charged with treason":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/548. He was tried in Charles Town, Lewisburg, and Fayetteville before the charges were eventually dropped. The armed march and the Battle of Blair Mountain resulted in …

• Spy Rock

  … ":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/978, 18 miles east of Hawks Nest and about midway between Charleston and Lewisburg. The large rock ledge provided a lookout along the turnpike toward "Sewell Mountain":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• State Fair

  … various locations in the 1800s. The Greenbrier Agricultural Society hosted its first annual fair on land in what is now downtown Lewisburg in 1854. The fair now known as the West Virginia State Fair was founded by cattlemen of the Shorthorn Association as …

• Bluefield State University

  … grow to nearly 2,500 in the mid-1980s, and distance-learning programs and new centers in Beckley, Welch, and Lewisburg spread Bluefield State’s service across southern West Virginia. Its 1995 centennial celebration highlighted Bluefield State College’s …

• Streetcar Lines

  … became Tri-City Traction in 1928. A six-mile line, the Lewisburg & Ronceverte Railway, connected the main line of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad at Ronceverte with Lewisburg. Built in 1906, it lasted until the early 1930s. The …

• John Stuart

  … to the Fort Spring area near "Lewisburg":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … Pleasant and Cornstalk’s murder. One of Lewisburg’s first city trustees, Stuart was … .S. Constitution. He donated land in Lewisburg for the first courthouse and for …

• Traveller

  … Blue Sulphur Springs raised the colt under the name Jeff Davis, when he took top prizes in 1859 and 1860 at the Lewisburg fair. General Lee first saw the horse when he took command of Confederate troops near Big Sewell Mountain. He immediately indicated …

• Gladys Tuke

  … colony was reopened with her work and that of Jeanne Eleanore Coyne, a pictorial artist and teacher at Greenbrier College for Women in Lewisburg. Tuke used clay from her own land for all of her pottery and some of her sculpture. In addition to teaching, …

• Irish

  … the 1820s, the "James River & Kanawha Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/978 ran from Lewisburg to Charleston. The "Northwestern Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1706 was constructed in the 1830s from …

• H. Rus Warne

  … in Parkersburg, the main building at "Greenbrier Military School":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2175 in Lewisburg, and Charleston High School. Other buildings include "Edgewood Country Club":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• The Weather

  … on record in West Virginia occurred during one of those winters. The thermometer dropped to 37 degrees below zero at "Lewisburg":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1369 on December 30, 1917. More recently, shorter periods of severe cold …

• James River & Kanawha Turnpike

  … at lower cost. Covered bridges over the Greenbrier and Gauley rivers opened in 1822, and by 1824 the road ran from Lewisburg to Montgomery’s Ferry, 25 miles above Charleston. In 1829, the Virginia legislature authorized extending the road to the mouth …

• Jazz

  … of volunteer musicians from Raleigh, Fayette, and Nicholas counties that plays swing music. The Manhattan Jazz Quartet, a Lewisburg group, plays regularly at "The Greenbrier":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/42 resort. Any discussion of …

• Karst

  … ;Union":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/818 and "Lewisburg":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1369 are situated on karst sinkhole plains, and Lewisburg lies mostly within a compound sinkhole. The scenic course …

• Civil War

  … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/96, and "Allegheny Mountain":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/191 (1861); "Lewisburg":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1371 (1862); "White Sulphur Springs":https://www.wvencyclopedia. …

• White Sulphur Springs

  … as the ‘‘Old White,’’ was incorporated as the town of White Sulphur Springs in 1909. Today, the town is located east of Lewisburg on Interstate 64 at an elevation of 1,980 feet. Both the town and resort were badly damaged during the deadly "2016 …

• Battle of White Sulphur Springs

  … of 1863, Confederate forces reoccupied "Lewisburg":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … which had previously been established at Lewisburg for the convenience of judges … hitting the Confederates moving east from Lewisburg. After two hours of assaults …

• Clendenin Family

  … County. At his homestead, about two miles west of present Lewisburg, on July 15, 1763, he was among a number of settlers … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1982 of 1774. On their march from Lewisburg to the "Battle of Point Pleasant":https://www. …

• Andrew Lewis

  … /1740. Indian troubles persisted in Western Virginia, and in September 1774 Lewis marched a frontier army from Camp Union, now "Lewisburg":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1369, westward to the Ohio River. At the "Battle of Point …