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• Irish

  … in 1912 by William S. Edwards to honor the Irish workers in his mines. Other Celtic crosses in cemeteries in Greenbrier County and elsewhere attest to an Irish presence. The American Ancient Order of Hibernians, an Irish fraternal order founded in New …

• Irish Mountain

  … November 2021. There is another Irish Mountain, elevation 3,320 feet, associated with the Irish Tract settlement in Greenbrier, Summers, and Fayette counties. _Read the National Register <a href="https://catalog.archives.gov/id/86536050" …

• Vines

  … . Often they are aggressive, invasive pests. Greenbrier is an example of a native woody … to help it climb. Its namesakes include Greenbrier County, Greenbrier River, the Greenbrier resort, and Ronceverte (which is French for ‘‘green brier’’). The larger …

• Thomas Walker

  … ;New":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1637 and "Greenbrier":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/33 rivers at present Hinton, and ascended most of the Greenbrier. In an active career of government service, Walker served …

• H. Rus Warne

  … . Warne’s buildings during this period included the State Masonic Home in Parkersburg, the main building at "Greenbrier Military School":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2175 in Lewisburg, and Charleston High School. Other buildings …

• Iroquois

  … and settlers into lands west of the "Alleghenies":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/196, beginning in the Greenbrier, New River, and Monongahela watersheds. This in turn set in motion 50 years of intermittent "border warfare": …

• Watoga Land Association

  … their race only. The separatist association was named for the community of Watoga, formerly a sawmill town, located on the Greenbrier River in southern "Pocahontas County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1876 in West Virginia. There was a …

• Watoga State Park

  … in the 1920s. The park is located in southern "Pocahontas County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1876 on the Greenbrier River. It was named for Watoga, a nearby town. An initial 4,546 acres of former lumber company land was purchased …

• Weaving

  … "Pendleton County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1832. The Goodwin family operated a weaving mill at Hollywood, "Greenbrier County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2168, in the late 1800s. A cousin of this family, Olive …

• Jackson’s Mill

  … , and the Jackson Lodge for small conferences. Blaker’s Mill, a water powered gristmill constructed in 1794 near Alderson in Greenbrier County, was relocated to Jackson’s Mill in the 1980s. Sites associated with the Jackson family include a gristmill …

• James River & Kanawha Turnpike

  … Company surveyors located the road through Greenbrier and Fayette counties on the north … lower cost. Covered bridges over the Greenbrier and Gauley rivers opened in … business owners and elected officials in Greenbrier, Fayette, and Kanawha counties formed …

• Jazz

  … 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 Mountain State jazz must mention Hugh McPherson, …

• Cass

  … .org/articles/728 town of Cass, located on the "Greenbrier River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/33 in east- … Virginia Pulp & Paper purchased land along the "Greenbrier River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/33 at the …

• Cass Scenic Railroad

  … . At 4,842 feet, Bald Knob, 2,300 feet above Cass, provides tourists with an unobstructed view east across the Greenbrier Valley into Virginia. The railroad and park have been expanded to include the town of Cass, additional locomotives, gift and craft …

• Jerry West

  … Virginia. He retired from the Grizzlies in 2007. In 2009, West opened a restaurant, Prime 44 West at the "The Greenbrier":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/42. His autobiography, _West by West: My Charmed, Tormented Life_, was published in …

• Caves

  … http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2071 (Greenbrier and Pocahontas counties), 44 miles; … quot;:http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1767 (Greenbrier), 40 miles; The Hole … miles; and Culverson Creek Cave (Greenbrier), 21 miles. The neighboring counties …

• Chamber of Commerce

  … with organizing the state chamber. At his urging, in May 1935 a group of business leaders met at "The Greenbrier":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/42 in White Sulphur Springs. Additional meetings followed, culminating in the adoption of a …

• West Virginia Prison for Women

  … 2007. In 1986, the prison property at Pence Springs was purchased and renovated as a hotel. The property soon changed hands again when it became the Greenbrier Academy for Girls, a college preparatory boarding school for troubled adolescents.

• West Virginia State Rail Authority

  … and Webster counties. The five-mile recreational Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad is also operated privately. The Rail … They are used as recreational trails, including the "Greenbrier River Trail":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/34 …

• Western Maryland Railway

  … old Western Maryland Rail Road Company’s property and equipment at a foreclosure sale. In the 1920s, the new WM purchased the Greenbrier, Cheat & Elk Railroad from the West Virginia Pulp & Paper Company. This line extended from Cheat Junction in …

• Karst

  … miles south to Spring Creek in "Greenbrier County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2168. Milligan Creek in Greenbrier County rises and sinks at least … line in Monroe County north through Greenbrier County traverses a mature sinkhole plain …

• Chesapeake & Ohio Railway

  … Run, for example, were also constructed. The 98-mile "Greenbrier Railway Company":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2170, purchased by the C&O in 1907, ran up the Greenbrier Valley to Bartow. Completed in 1904, it was built to …

• MeadWestvaco

  … http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/994. The company formed the Greenbrier, Cheat & Elk Railroad to connect its surrounding timberlands … at Cass and to the Chesepeake & Ohio’s Greenbrier River line. Incorporated in 1910, the logging railroad was …

• Wetlands

  … www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/908, Tucker County. Other important wetland areas include the upper Meadow River drainage in Greenbrier County, Cranesville Swamp in Preston County, Cranberry Glades in Pocahontas County, and the drainages of Muddelty and …

• Civil Rights

  … anti-lynching legislation in 1921. A decade later, a mob in Greenbrier County hanged two Black men, Tom Jackson and George Banks, … after a shootout left two White constables dead. Under the law, Greenbrier County was forced to pay $5,000 to each estate of …