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• Walter Dean Myers

  … other children. A high school teacher encouraged him to write, but family problems led him to drop out of school when he … finalist for the National Book Award. In January 2012, Myers was named the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature by the …

• Mason County

  … is commonly thought that Mason County was named for Virginia statesman George Mason, an … only rarely specified a particular namesake in naming a new county, and did not … .org/articles/327, frontier scout. German families from the Shenandoah Valley settled in …

• John Frederick Matheus

  … ) was born in Keyser. When he was a youth, his family moved to Steubenville, Ohio, and some of the settings of Matheus’ … by Matheus and black composer-violinist Clarence Cameron White, who was named director of music at West Virginia State College in 1924. …

• Natural Gas and Petroleum

  … in the 19th century, the "Ruffner family":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … into Goose Creek, a Hughes tributary. They named the place Petroleum. Two years later, … oil field in the Little Kanawha basin. Named "Volcano":http://www. …

• Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

  … Grafton, Buckhannon, and Preston County, places where he and his family had lived. Then in 1987, when awarded a grant from the … near the Tyler County town of Friendly; the beagle Shiloh is named for a nearby community. _Send No Blessings_ is set in Hinton; …

• Council of Churches

  … In 1924, the association changed its name to the West Virginia Council of … and Christian Education. In 1950, the name was shortened to West Virginia … others directed toward faith and order, family, governmental relations, interfaith relations, and peace …

• Country Doctors

  … anatomist and an excellent surgeon, born near Philadelphia in 1769. He and his family moved to a small community six miles above Point Pleasant on the … of her death in 1953, she had delivered hundreds of babies, many of whom had been named for her.

• McDowell County

  … 1858, from part of Tazewell County, Virginia. The new county was named after James McDowell, a governor of Virginia (1843–45). It … West Virginia. In 1999, 47.5 percent of McDowell County families with children lived in poverty. The primary employers include …

• New River

  … for coal trains from surrounding mines. Downstream is Sewell, named for explorer Stephen Sewell. A ferry once operated at … , nearby museums, and in the memories of mine families. Fayette Station, a coal mining community that survives in name only, is the …

• Bill McKell

  … the Fayette County community of Glen Jean and named it for his wife. T. G. … . Upon his father’s death he managed the family inheritance with his brother, John. He constructed a … railway was a short line with a long name—Kanawha, Glen Jean, & Eastern. A …

• McKinley’s Palace

  … , and by 1908 had become a millionaire coal operator. He was named for his uncle, the industrialist and U.S. senator, Johnson … Camden. His young wife, a member of Weston’s distinguished Bennett family, had on her 18th birthday been presented at the court of …

• McLure Hotel

  … a prominent merchant and boat builder. He named his hostelry the McLure House, and it stayed in the family through four generations. The original hotel had … International Properties and in November 1999 its name was changed to the Ramada Plaza …

• Cozy Records

  … in Spencer. Brooks also wrote ‘‘I’d Like To Hear My Name,’’ a gospel song recorded by more than one Cozy artist and … years. Increasingly, Bava’s interest turned to religion. With a family band including his wife, Lucy, and daughters, Janet and Juanita, …

• Nicholas County

  … built a cabin for his family along Peters Creek, named for his father’s slave. … Simon Girty, who had stayed with the family under false pretenses during the winter. … 30 acres to establish the county seat, named Summersville in 1820 and incorporated in 1860 …

• The Cultural Landscape

  … houses. They typically signified a wealthier family. Farmsteads included outbuildings such as … of Scottish descent. West Virginia place names like Glasgow or Glengary also hint … this region of the country. Likewise, names painted on mailboxes or inscribed …

• Nylon

  … by the company’s Kanawha Valley plant. Nylon was the first of a new family of wholly synthetic textile fibers, and although the name describes a generic class of polymers it has also become a synonym for ladies …

• Earl Oglebay

  … was born in Bridgeport, Ohio, to a Wheeling businessman’s family. He became one of West Virginia’s most successful … quot;West Virginia University":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1127 named Oglebay Hall in his honor. While Oglebay served on …

• Oglebay Park

  … s Mansion Museum. The property was purchased by George W. Smith in 1856. Smith named the farm Waddington, after his family’s ancestral English estate. Waddington Farm was bought by "Earl William Oglebay& …

• Old Stone Presbyterian Church

  … the mortar. Rev. Benjamin Grigsby dedicated the structure, originally named Lewisburg Presbyterian Church, with this verse: ‘‘Except the Lord … . Its churchyard cemetery has the graves of many local families. <em>Read the National Register <a …

• The One-Room School

  The picturesque names of West Virginia’s one-room schools offer a county-by-county geography lesson, as … roads or lack of roads often forced teachers to board with students’ families. Prior to "World War II":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ …

• Mercer County

  … and Tazewell counties. The county was named for Revolutionary War Gen. Hugh Mercer … rivers for its Pocahontas Division headquarters. Naming the new community "Bluefield& … although Bluefield’s powerful Democratic Kee family held the Fifth District seat …

• Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller

  … -December 26, 1937) wrote as Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller, the name of her second husband. The author of 80 dime novels published … her alone in Washington. Grief stricken, she returned to her family in Richmond, where she wrote stories for the _Old Dominion_ …

• Parsons

  … to Parsons on the night of August 1, 1893. Parsons was named for Ward Parsons, not the first settler but the most … , the county newspaper, showed that only 45 percent of the families relocated in Parsons; business licenses dropped 40 percent, and total …

• Okey L. Patteson

  … , originally from Nicholas County, moved the family to Mount Hope in Fayette County … org/articles/1750. When Meadows won, he named Patteson executive assistant, a newly created … (Reuter) Warden, who had been a family friend for years. Patteson quietly visited …

• Pence Springs

  Pence Springs, the name of a mineral spring and community, is located in "Summers County":http … Carney. In 1918, a large brick hotel was constructed by the Pence family on the hill overlooking the original spring. This hotel operated until the …