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• Alan Mollohan

  … He was born in Fairmont on May 14, 1943. For six years, beginning in seventh grade, he attended Greenbrier Military School in Lewisburg. Mollohan went on to graduate from the College of William and Mary and West Virginia University’s College of Law before …

• Fort Lee

  … org/articles/1305 was ordered to proceed west from present "Lewisburg":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1369 to construct a … .org/articles/327, brought ammunition to the fort from Lewisburg. No basis of fact could be found for this incident …

• Giles, Fayette & Kanawha Turnpike

  … ) at Kanawha Falls near Gauley Bridge. At a point near Fayetteville a separate road, the ‘‘Old State Road,’’ which ran from Lewisburg and crossed the New River at Sewell, joined the Giles, Fayette & Kanawha Turnpike and continued with it to the Kanawha …

• Education

  … , and Patrick Henry. Other early academies included the Potomac Academy in Romney, Northwestern Academy at Clarksburg, and Lewisburg Academy. Marshall Academy, later Marshall College and now "Marshall University":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Greenbrier Ghost

  A state historic marker near the Sam Black Church exit of Interstate 64 in West Virginia commemorates the ‘‘only known case in which testimony from a ghost helped to convict a murderer.’’ The victim lies about five miles away beneath a tombstone which …

• The Sesquicentennial

  … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1113, and "Carnifex Ferry":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/971 in 1861, "Lewisburg":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1371 in 1862, "Bulltown":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/709 …

• Bill Campbell

  … also to life. We know that bad bounces and bad breaks occur in golf and in life. You don’t always get what you deserve. But we always hold out hope that from a bad place, we might make a great recovery.” Bill Campbell died at the age of 90 in Lewisburg.

• Jim Justice

  … . He served as president of the Beckley Little League and has coached basketball at every level. Justice, who has lived in Lewisburg since 2001, has been the girls' basketball coach at Greenbrier East High School since 2003 and won a state championship in …

• Megalonyx jeffersonii

  … Survey Museum":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1046 in Morgantown and at the Interstate 64 welcome center near Lewisburg. Ray Garton, the curator of the museum, helped craft the legislation that made the _Megalonyx jeffersonii_ the official …

• Fort Donnally

  … , and Capt. Matthew Arbuckle arrived from "Fort Savannah":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2054 in present-day "Lewisburg":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1369 at 3 p.m. One of the heroes of the battle was a slave, & …

• McCoy’s Fort

  … forts included "Arbuckle's Fort":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/266, Fort Donnally, and "Fort Savannah":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2054 at present "Lewisburg":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1369.

• Snowstorm of January 1978

  … freezing rain. Those expectations were realized over the southern mountains and the Greenbrier Valley, including Beckley, Bluefield, and Lewisburg. This reduced the snow accumulations there. However, further west and north, the snow continued to fall. …

• Flood of 2016

  … Sulphur Springs, more than doubling the town’s previous record one-day rainfall of four inches set on March 19, 1890. Nearby Lewisburg received eight inches of rain during the same period, almost twice its previous rainy day record of 4.06 inches, recorded …