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• Greenbrier River Trail

  … -mile trail follows the old "Greenbrier Division":http://www.wvencyclopedia. … grandfather and father had planned the Greenbrier Division as engineers, was instrumental … With access from many points in Greenbrier and Pocahontas counties, the visitor …

• Greenbrier State Forest

  … sometimes called pack rat by local people. Greenbrier State Forest also includes the rare … not far from the entrance to the Greenbrier resort, and ends at the forest … in the 1930s. Recreational facilities at Greenbrier State Forest include a swimming pool, …

• The Greenbrier

  … a year-round operation. The name ‘‘Greenbrier’’ (after the county, river, and plant) … by New York decorator Dorothy Draper, the Greenbrier reopened in April 1948. In the … an ‘‘emergency relocation center’’ at the Greenbrier for the reassembly of Congress in …

• Greenbrier College for Women

  … to 1923. Then the school was named Greenbrier College for Women and continued as … it was chartered in 1933 as just Greenbrier College. French W. Thompson was president … its buildings remain Lewisburg landmarks. Its Greenbrier Hall, an impressive red brick …

• Greenbrier County

  … largest employers were, respectively, the Greenbrier Hotel Corporation, the county school … Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, Greenbrier Valley Medical Center, and Walmart … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1918 of Greenbrier County, who voted against " …

• Greenbrier Division

  … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1139. The Greenbrier Division served the numerous sawmills and … agriculture of the valley, made the Greenbrier Division an important branch of … reopened in 2023; the Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad now operates an …

• Greenbrier Ghost

  … ‘‘In memory of Zona Heaster Shue, Greenbrier Ghost, 1876–1897.’’ About four miles … where he died eight years later. The Greenbrier County Courthouse where Edward Shue was … trial records carry the words of the Greenbrier Ghost as they were repeated in …

• Greenbrier Military School

  … can be traced to 1890 when the Greenbrier Military Academy was founded. The buildings … the school was bought by the Greenbrier Presbytery which renamed it the Greenbrier … /" target="_blank">Greenbrier Military School Alumni Association</a …

• Rebel Records

  Rebel Records, which operated in Asbury, Greenbrier County, from 1974 through 1979, developed into a major force in "bluegrass music":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/571. The company had been founded in 1959 at Mt. Rainier, Maryland, by …

• Greenbrier River

  … southwesterly direction through Pocahontas and Greenbrier counties before joining the " … Creek, and Muddy Creek. The Greenbrier’s relatively straight course through … . The railroad’s former "Greenbrier Division":http://www.wvencyclopedia. …

• Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde

  … captain whom she met in Denmark and married in 1936. For the next several years she lived off and on at the "Greenbrier County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2168 estate, which previously had been the home of "Mrs. Alex. McVeigh …

• St. Lawrence Boom and Manufacturing Company

  … periods in the history of the "Greenbrier River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … harvest of the white pine timber in Greenbrier and Pocahontas counties in the late … . Lawrence Ford. By the mid-1870s, Greenbrier River log drives were becoming an …

• Alderson Broaddus University

  … ":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1845 in 1909. Miss Emma Alderson founded Alderson Academy in Alderson, "Greenbrier County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2168, in 1901. Coeducational from the start, the Academy announced …

• Anthony Correctional Center

  Located at Neola, Greenbrier County, the Anthony Correctional Center was a minimum-security facility for young adults, primarily ages 18 to 24. The center’s goal was to rehabilitate its inmates through vocational training, academic classes, individual and …

• Matthew Arbuckle

  … of the "Indians":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/841. In 1774 he built the stockade on Muddy Creek, "Greenbrier County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2168, now known as "Arbuckle’s Old Fort":https://www. …

• Arbuckle’s Fort

  Arbuckle’s Fort was a Revolutionary-era frontier fort located in "Greenbrier County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2168, one of many forts that helped white and African-American settlers to colonize Western Virginia. The fort stood on …

• Sewell Mountain

  Sewell Mountain in Fayette and Greenbrier counties is a part of the dissected Allegheny Plateau that was uplifted from the sea during the mountain-building period known as the "Appalachian Orogeny":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/246, …

• Shanghai Parade

  … . While organized by committee nowadays, Shanghai was largely by consensus and informal invitation in times past. A 1930s Greenbrier County newspaper offered the following call to revelry: ‘‘Let millionaire and pauper meet And go marching down the …

• Averell’s Raid

  … /171 works near "Franklin":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2064, to disperse Confederate troops from the Greenbrier Valley, and to capture the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals library in "Lewisburg":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org …

• Pinckney Benedict

  … family, and grew up on the family dairy farm in Greenbrier County. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University … His plays have received staged readings and performances at the Greenbrier Valley Theatre in Lewisburg. Several of his short stories …

• Sam Snead

  … became a teaching professional at the "Greenbrier resort":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles … do so. In 1974, he left the Greenbrier and worked at the Homestead. In … . He split his time among the Greenbrier, his Ashwood farm, and Florida. He …

• Sam Black

  … preacher Samuel Black, born in "Greenbrier County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … .org/articles/1183. He traveled through Greenbrier, Clay, Fayette, Nicholas, Webster, and Kanawha … Church was erected in 1902 in Greenbrier County, in memory of the …

• Blue Sulphur Springs

  Blue Sulphur Springs, located in "Greenbrier County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2168 near Smoot, was the site of a "mineral spring":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1802 resort from 1834 until 1858, one of many in the …

• State Fair

  … at various locations in the 1800s. The Greenbrier Agricultural Society hosted its first annual … of the Shorthorn Association as the Greenbrier Valley Fair in 1921. The state … the fair’s post office and the Greenbrier County Sheriff’s headquarters at the …

• John Stuart

  … establish a permanent settlement in the Greenbrier Valley. At his first residence … the first mill in present "Greenbrier County":http://www.wvencyclopedia. … of Point Pleasant and defended Greenbrier settlements during Indian raids, including …