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• Bridges

  … as the all-timber Burr and Long trusses, and found wide application with 19th-century railroad bridges. The transformation from wood to iron bridges also marked the transformation from the ‘‘vernacular’’ or craft approach to formally designed bridges, …

• A. B. Brooks

  … Leaders Training School in 1928. He wrote numerous publications related to forestry and natural history, most notably _Forestry and Wood Industries_, 1911, and _West Virginia Trees_, 1920. The "Brooks Bird Club":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Maurice Brooks

  … more intimately. Although a professor of wildlife management at West Virginia University he is equally knowledgeable about orchids, salamanders, and wood warblers. He is typical of the new breed of all-round naturalists—in other words, an ecologist.’’

• Buckhannon

  … St. Joseph’s Hospital, West Virginia Wesleyan College, the Upshur County Board of Education, and Weyerhaeuser Trus Joist, a "wood products":http://wvencyclopedia manufacturer. The town has one newspaper, the _Record Delta_. From 1893 to 1935, …

• Textile Industry

  … regenerated yarns and fibers. Competition from plants at Nitro and Parkersburg which made rayon by chemically processing raw cotton and wood pulp contributed to the shift. DuPont’s "Belle works":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1985 in …

• Hughes River

  … Kanawha River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1422 at the Wood-Wirt county line, 18 miles east of Parkersburg. At this … Goose Creek, which forms a part of the border between Wood and Ritchie counties. Goose Creek flows into Hughes River at …

• Timbering and Logging

  … a day. Moving the logs out of the woods was accomplished with a team of horses. … .org/articles/1972 were built into the woods, the logs were stockpiled until a flood … mill and the town. Men working in the woods lived in camps that sometimes were large …

• Burr Conspiracy

  The Burr Conspiracy, possibly a secessionist scheme, brought the nation’s attention to the Western Virginia frontier early in the 19th century. The episode was fueled by Ohio Valley settlers’ anger at being denied navigational access to the Mississippi …

• Peter Burr House

  … 1751, the house is an extremely rare example of a very early family homestead and is considered to be the oldest standing wood frame structure in West Virginia. The methods used in the construction of the house are typical of those used in small family …

• Hunting

  … rabbit lure thousands of hunters to the woods and fields annually. Historically, young hunters … hone their skills in the squirrel woods. Rabbit hunting is equally traditional, … availability of food supplies in the woods. The most striking changes have come …

• Toymaking

  … machine production. Early folk toys were made of natural materials including wood, corncobs, and elder stalks, or of scraps of cloth, metal, and other found materials. Poplar wood was often used because it was available, easily worked, and …

• Trees

  … known as hardwoods since generally their wood is denser and harder than that … for furniture, flooring, cabinetry, and turned-wood products. Oak mixtures predominate at moderate … overgrown and become embedded in the wood. Virginia pine predominates on dry, …

• Tucker County

  … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1814, Porterwood, and William. Manufacturing "wood products":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1341 is … use small and marginal timber once left in the woods. The Ricottilli Lumber Company, a sawmill operating at …

• Tygart Valley Homesteads

  … garage and filling station, a potato storage shed, and limestone quarry were constructed. The main industrial project was a large wood mill erected in 1937, now operated by Coastal Lumber Company. A cooperative farm, cannery, and store operated briefly. …

• Cacapon River

  … , scarlet tanager, and eastern phoebe. The river also supports wood ducks, Canada geese, belted kingfishers, ospreys, and an … patches along the lower Cacapon, while rare animals include the wood turtle, red-bellied turtle, and several mussel species. Beaver …

• Johnson Newlon Camden

  U.S. Senator and industrialist Johnson Newlon Camden (March 6, 1828-April 25, 1908) was born in "Lewis County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1362. He opened one of the first oil wells in West Virginia in January 1861 and later helped …

• United Bank

  One of West Virginia’s largest banks, United Bank is older than the state itself. It originated as the Northwestern Bank of Virginia, founded in 1817 in "Wheeling":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1168 with branches in Wellsburg, …

• United Brethren

  … the merger United Brethren churches existed primarily in two areas of West Virginia: the Ohio River counties of Cabell, Mason, Jackson, Wood, Pleasants, and Tyler, and the interior counties of Gilmer, Lewis, Upshur, Barbour, and Braxton. There were few, if …

• Vernacular Architecture

  … Greek Revival style was introduced in houses such as the 1834 wood-frame Craik-Patton House in Charleston and the 1853 brick … a store, school, and other buildings, all in a distinctive wood-frame style. In 1891, the Martinsburg Mining, Manufacturing and …

• Vines

  … , easily overtops brushy roadsides in the "Eastern Panhandle":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1991 and in "Wood County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1339 and on several Ohio River islands. In contrast is creeping …

• Jackson County

  … ;Ohio River":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1740, Big Mill Creek, and Big Sandy Creek. Jackson was created from parts of Wood, Mason, and Kanawha counties by an act of the Virginia legislature, March 1, 1831. The county was named in honor of …

• Lily Irene Jackson

  Artist Lily Irene Jackson (September 17, 1848-December 9, 1928) was born in Parkersburg. She was the daughter of attorney "John Jay Jackson Jr":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/941., who was a member of the prominent Jackson family and …

• Mudwall Jackson

  … as a circuit judge in Parkersburg. Jackson was a Southern loyalist. With the coming of war he sought to control the "Wood County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1339 militia and to seize its three cannons for the Confederacy. During …

• Capitols of West Virginia

  … torn down in 1967. On January 3, 1921, the Victorian capitol was destroyed by a fire of unknown origin. A temporary wood-frame building, located on the future site of the "Daniel Boone Hotel":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1705, was …

• Jefferson National Forest

  … protection, with fire prevention in the slash-filled cut-over woods as a major concern. Forest lands have recovered since … and present policy is to manage for multiple resources including wood, water, wildlife, recreation, and livestock forage. A portion of …