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• The West Virginia State Federation of Labor

  … government changed from benevolence and protection to indifference and outright opposition. After 1932, President Roosevelt’s "New Deal":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2265, with its favorable labor legislation, provided an opportunity …

• Chemical Industry

  … built a polyurethane foam plant in "New Martinsville":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … out by Bayer. GE and DuPont built new plastics plants in Parkersburg. In the … and restarted by the Far Eastern New Century Corporation (FENC). The Monsanto plant …

• Civil Works Administration

  A "New Deal":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2265 agency established in the late fall of 1933, the Civil Works Administration sought to provide emergency work relief for the many still unemployed as the country faced another winter during …

• Civilian Conservation Corps

  The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was the first of the "New Deal":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2265 agencies created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt after his inauguration in 1933, to address the problems of the Great Depression. …

• Herman Guy Kump

  … himself at odds with Roosevelt’s "New Deal":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … support from traditional Democrats than from liberal New Dealers, Kump led the conservative ‘‘ … in a bitter struggle against the pro-New Deal Democrats, headed by "U. …

• Labor History

  … to 446,000. In the new coal company towns, native Whites, … new life. West Virginia’s glass workers are a case in … accepted into the CIO’s new state organization. Later, most West … of current workers when hiring new employees. Nevertheless, these efforts did …

• Blanche Lazzell

  … 1898 and an art degree in 1905 from "West Virginia University":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1127. She traveled to New York City in the fall of 1907, where she studied at the Art Students League with Kenyon Cox and William Merritt Chase …

• Works Progress Administration (WPA)

  … senior senator "Matthew M. Neely":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1628, who was more sympathetic to "New Deal":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2265 programs. Despite the bitter conflicts over the agency among the state’ …

• Lincoln County

  … s boundaries were drastically changed: Putnam’s territory was given back; more land was taken from Boone, Cabell, and Kanawha; and new land was incorporated from Logan and Wayne counties. There was yet another boundary shift in 1869, in which Lincoln took …

• Logan County

  … . The older towns of Man and Chapmanville adapted to the new economy. The darker side of Logan County’s coal economy … changes. Federal labor legislation passed during Roosevelt’s "New Deal":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2265 finally made …

• Pare Lorentz

  … Virginia Moonshine_ magazine. In 1925, he left for New York. Within seven years he had been … to create a motion picture about the New Deal. The result was a classic, … the Nazi Party. Pare Lorentz lived in Armonk, New York, until his death. His ashes were …

• Conservation Movement

  … farm abandonment, hunting restrictions, and forest maturation. Turkey restoration was accomplished by trapping birds and transplanting them to new habitats. Today the wild turkey is abundant in all 55 counties. The black bear became the state animal in …

• New River

  … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/174, the New starts to show its most … view of the gorge. The New was discovered by European Americans … a canal for the lower New, and Chief Justice "John … her return home. The "New River Gorge National River" …

• New River Community and Technical College

  … the state legislature in 2004, made New River Community and Technical College essentially independent of Bluefield State. New River absorbed the community college … , Raleigh, Summers, and Webster counties. New River Community and Technical College …

• New River Gorge Bridge

  … www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/249, made the New River Gorge Bridge project possible. In … . 19, introducing tourists to the "New River Gorge National Park and Preserve& … West Virginia Public Broadcasting on the New River Gorge Bridge <center>& …

• New River Gorge National Park and Preserve

  … when the first visitor center for the new park opened near "Fayetteville": … gorge, once the center of the New River Coalfield. Mining and railroading have … presents West Virginia Public Broadcasting on New River Gorge National River <center& …

• New Vrindaban

  … Gordon Ham, was the founder of New Vrindaban, following Prabhupada’s guidelines. … , which was constructed by Krishna devotees. New Vrindaban, which had become one … with racketeering, fraud, and conspiracy. New Vrindaban was expelled from membership …

• New York Central

  … , Nicholas County. The earliest part of the New York Central System in West Virginia … Blakeley on Kellys Creek. In 1910, the New York Central gained control of the … Columbus, Ohio. Throughout their life, the New York Central components Kanawha & …

• County Poor Farms

  Before the welfare reforms of the "New Deal":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … .org/articles/1764 experiment with a new kind of county farm that used … rather than a single common dormitory. Other New Deal reforms, however, especially Social Security, …

• Democratic Party

  … carry his home state. The Great Depression and the "New Deal":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2265 activism of President Franklin Roosevelt ushered in a new era of Democratic dominance in West Virginia, beginning in …

• Pocahontas County

  … farming has declined. On balance, several new timber-related operations have opened, … Green Bank was selected for the new "National Radio Astronomy Observatory& … Observatory and Snowshoe have brought other new residents. "Floods":http:// …

• Poverty

  … County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2177. The Works Progress Administration and other programs of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal administration brought work relief to thousands throughout the state. Old methods of caring for the poor gave …

• Doddridge County

  … , and Southern Carbon companies were located in and around Smithburg. Oil and gas production dropped off during the Great Depression, but new drilling began during World War II. Doddridge experienced a second drilling boom in the 1960s. A well at the …

• Putnam County

  … from portions of Kanawha, Mason, and Cabell. The new county, which straddles the "Kanawha River& … dam was completed in 1936 and the new Kanawha River bridge was opened in 1957, … was at full capacity. There is a new Kanawha River Bridge at Buffalo, and a …

• Folklore

  … from West Virginia_, built on the earlier book. During the "New Deal":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2265 of the 1930s, … .org/articles/1222, by the American Folklife Center in the New River Gorge and the Coal River basin, and by the & …