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• Roane County

  … County east to west through Spencer; State Route 36 travels from Clay County north to Spencer; and State Route 14 goes north from Spencer to Wood County. U.S. 119 comes up from the south to intersect U.S. 33 at Spencer and then follows U.S. 33 eastward. …

• Halliehurst

  … his client. The house is made of wood with heavy timber framing throughout. Interior … and upper stories are finished with wood shingles. Halliehurst defies connection with any … wide, and elegantly trimmed with tile, wood, and stone. Once a happy family …

• Hammons Family

  … family of traditionalists whose knowledge of music, storytelling, and woods lore have made them cultural guides and mentors since … .org/articles/2112 gathering for nearly two centuries, their woods lore was encyclopedic. The fact that the Hammonses evoke …

• Hampshire County

  … largely rural, Hampshire County maintains an economy based largely upon agriculture (livestock, fruit, grain, and hay), logging and wood products, and tourism. The landscape still shows evidence of now-defunct industries, such as the iron ore furnace at …

• St. Joseph’s Hospital

  In 1900, Patrick J. Donahue, West Virginia’s Roman Catholic bishop, founded St. Joseph’s Hospital. It was originally located in the old Visitation Convent at Avery and Fifth streets in "Parkersburg":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1811. …

• St. Lawrence Boom and Manufacturing Company

  … "Greenbrier River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/33 in West Virginia was its use to transport logs from the woods to the "sawmill":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/185. Although some timber was moved on the Greenbrier …

• Rimfire Hamrick

  … Senatorial District but lost to Albert G. Mathews. Like many West Virginians, Rimfire Hamrick was never a man with only one trade. He worked at many things, but his greatest passion was hunting and roaming the woods. He died in his native Bergoo.

• Agriculture

  … ;Mason":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1563, "Jackson":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/931, and "Wood":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1339 counties along the Ohio River and in the central counties of " …

• Salt Industry

  … and inventiveness. They adapted "coal":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1349 as furnace fuel when wood became scarce; invented various well-drilling tools later adapted for petroleum drilling; early and extensively harnessed steam engines …

• Sawmills

  … it made a thinner cut, wasting less wood as sawdust. Logs were brought to the … steam cylinder. Unusable slabs, sawdust, and scrap wood were burned to provide heat for … billion board feet of lumber and other wood products--making West Virginia the second …

• Allegheny Plateau

  … a "glass industry":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2116 that remains in several plateau counties, including Cabell, Wood, Hancock, Lewis, and Ritchie. With a surface more rugged than any region east of the Rockies, the plateau does not …

• Amphibians and Reptiles

  … treefrog * Pickerel frog * Northern leopard frog * Wood frog * Mountain chorus frog * Spring peeper … turtle * Midland painted turtle * Spotted turtle * Wood turtle * Northern map turtle * Ouachita …

• Handcrafts

  … and log cabins and outbuildings. They whittled wood into bowls, cooking utensils of all … that result from pouring water over wood ashes. Candles were fashioned from tallow … and hardened in metal forms. Coopers bent wood into barrels for storage of grains …

• Serviceberry

  … , including three shrubs and two small trees. Serviceberries are found throughout the state, growing in fence-rows, thickets, woods, and on rocky outcrops. Identifying characteristics include oval leaves about two inches long with small, sharp teeth on the …

• Seventh-day Adventists

  … year several people at Rockport in "Wood County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … the next year Sanborn held meetings in Wood, Roane, and Kanawha counties. He concluded … two churches had been organized, one in Wood County and one in "Kanawha& …

• Gabriel Arthur

  … org/articles/1620 in an expedition sent out by "Abraham Wood":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1335 from Fort Henry … https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/408, another team sent out by Woods, that set out from Fort Henry in 1671 and became …

• Averell’s Raid

  … of the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad, a key Confederate communications link. The commander of all three raids, Brig. Gen. William Woods Averell (1832–1900), regarded the Salem Raid as the greatest success. Averell in 1863 was a 31-year-old career …

• Aviation

  … ":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/782 in Huntington (1952), Raleigh County Memorial Airport near Beckley (1952), Wood County Airport near Parkersburg (1946), and the Greenbrier Valley Airport at Lewisburg (1968). General aviation airports are …

• Babcock Lumber Company

  … /321 was later built on the timbered-out lands donated by the Babcock Lumber Company to the state. The company continues today in wood processing and wholesale distribution, its West Virginia operations including a distribution center at Gassaway.

• Barbour County

  … is still harvested annually. Logging and "wood products":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … of Barbour County were the Dayton and Woods families. The Daytons were active in … /1799. Under the leadership of Ruth Woods Dayton the two families joined in …

• Hillbilly

  … in New York, shows a large group of white people with three black servants out for an elaborate picnic in a wooded setting in Greenbrier County. These prosperous people from Lewisburg most certainly knew the word hillbilly as a designation for social …

• Hinton

  … engines, and the town’s population declined. Brick streets, elaborate municipal and commercial buildings, and two-story Victorian wood-frame houses with gingerbread trim and porches on both stories remain as testimony to the prosperity of the railroad era …

• Batts and Fallam Expedition

  … a commission granted to "Abraham Wood":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … ;:https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/281. Woods River retained its name for at … West Virginia, were still calling it Woods River. In 1763, in negotiations …

• Bear Rock Lakes

  … acres; Bear Lake, eight acres; Rock Lake, 4.1 acres; and Wood Pond, 0.5 acre. In 1950, the area was opened to … acres in 1988. A handicapped accessible fishing pier was added to Wood Pond in 1988. Woodlands of mixed hardwoods surround the lakes. Limited …

• History of West Virginia

  … Virginia, and to the death in 1680 of "Abraham Wood":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1335, a leading … areas included certain areas of manufacturing, such as the automobile and wood-based industries, as well as the service industries, and & …