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• State Parks

  … system, and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) also provided laborers. Out-of-work engineers, planners, and architects employed in … four acres each. Areas important to the state’s history were preserved, restored, and incorporated within the system, …

• Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike

  … though the Staunton Road was also plagued with financing problems, labor and contractor difficulties, resistance to eminent domain, and intensely … bridges were finished. For the first time in the history of Virginia, a continuous road from Richmond to the …

• Tug Fork

  … .org/articles/314 with the McCoys is the most notorious event in Tug Valley history, were among the first settlers. Violent labor warfare rocked the valley during the early 20th century. It was at this time …

• Cacapon River

  … prevented the section from being added to the system. Former U.S. Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz chronicled the basin’s colorful people, such as Caudy Davis, and its quirky history, in his 1990 _Capon Valley Sampler_. The Cacapon is the …

• Waterpower

  … in the story of West Virginia. Next to draft animals and human labor, waterpower was the most important and most widely used form of power in our early history. An enduring and idyllic part of the landscape, "gristmills& …

• Don West

  … 29, 1992) was also a preacher, labor organizer, and educator. Born in the … of respecting mountain heritage and of learning history. He wrote and spoke often against … poverty. Many people interested in mountain history, politics, and culture visited the 400 …

• West Virginia State University

  … academic work, military-style discipline, manual labor, and compulsory religious services. Byrd Prillerman, … lose all traces of its Black history. Over time, as veteran faculty … university remains a center of Black history and culture in West Virginia. …

• West Virginia Train

  … Centennial train were outfitted with exhibits depicting West Virginia history, tourism, agriculture, resources, industry, arts and crafts, folklore, … the train visited every region of West Virginia by Labor Day. More than 300,000 visitors boarded the train …

• Cherokees

  … to play a major role in the history of the American south. Although the Cherokee … claim in the "Treaty of Hard Labor":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/768 … role that Cherokees played in West Virginia history, it is curious that a claim of …

• Chief Logan State Park

  … ;:https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1440, consists of 4,000 acres in the Little Buffalo Creek watershed. Using labor from the State Temporary Employment Program, early park improvements included creek channelization, development of hiking trails, …

• Williamson Coal House

  … house. Local businesses and community people contributed materials and labor. The coal, taken from the Winifrede Seam, was donated … guidance from the West Virginia Division of Culture and History, the Mingo County Commission worked to repair the structure, …

• Howard B. Lee

  … lawlessness and violence of Prohibition, and continued labor troubles in the southern coalfields. … both on legal subjects and regional history. His _Bloodletting In Appalachia_ (1969) … personal experience to help detail the history of the state’s Mine Wars …

• Log Driving and Rafting

  … timber downstream to the mills. During the summer and fall, woodsmen labored from daylight until dark, six days a week, felling, trimming … to 50 feet long which permitted rafts men to steer. The history of rafting is as varied as the rivers themselves. At …

• William Casey Marland

  … candidates in the governor’s mansion since 1932, there were bitter divisions within the party. A long-festering schism between pro-labor FDR liberals led by "M. M. Neely":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1628 and pro-industry, anti-FDR …

• The Negro Citizen of West Virginia

  … in 1934 in the midst of the Great Depression, documents the history of African-Americans in a state that practiced racial segregation … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1106 (1927–51), later headed the Labor and Industry Division of the U.S. Agency for …

• Old Stone Presbyterian Church

  … built in 1796 from native limestone, with walls 22 inches thick. Church history says the women worked with the men of the congregation, riding … , with this verse: ‘‘Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.’’ (Psalm 127:1) The …

• Mercer County

  … and the coalfields beyond. Mercer County’s history is as varied as its geography. … most significant events in the county’s history occurred after the Civil War, as … , Goodwill, and Freeman. Coal mining was labor intensive, and the population of Mercer …

• Mine Safety

  … worst mining disaster in U.S. history. Congress faced pressure to study mining … counterpart, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration … more cooperative relationship among mining companies, labor, and government in dealing with …

• Folk Music

  … Virginia University’s West Virginia and Regional History Collection, field recordings show that folk … banjo standard, commemorates the rowdier side of labor. The real John Hardy, also an … including stories and family and local history, a record of the joy, …

• Gauley Mountain

  … a lavish introduction by Stephen Vincent Benet. The book tells the history of West Virginia in verse form. McNeill (1911–93), … and Civil War, the coming of hard roads, railroads, and immigrant laborers, as well as the cutting of the forest. Through it …

• Ethnic Life

  … are recruited, though now for professional skills rather than as laborers. Many are doctors, others engineers. Once in West Virginia, … attracts relatively few immigrants, both as compared to its earlier history and to other parts of the United States today. …

• Fairmont

  … /1349 and other industries also developed a pressing need for labor. "African-Americans":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/25 … novel _A Separate Peace_ dealt with this period of local history in the 1978 book, _A Vein of Riches_. Knowles …

• Fayette County

  … and working the mines intensified demand for labor. Southern and eastern Europeans and African- … Run (1905), and Parral (1906), and protracted labor strikes in 1902 and 1912–13. … of the worst in the nation’s history, occurred during the "building (1930 …

• Beth Walker

  … at the firm, she concentrated on labor and employment law and mediation. … , advising the university’s hospitals regarding labor and employment matters from 2012 until … first time in the state’s history. In August 2018, following controversy involving …