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• Little Beaver State Park

  … in the hills around the lake or follow the shore. Visitors can use picnic tables and shelters, some at the water’s edge, others back in the woods. Little Beaver State Park is a popular place for family reunions, with many scheduled there each summer.

• Little Kanawha River

  … , 169 miles from its beginning near Craddock, Upshur County. As it flows westward through Braxton, Gilmer, Calhoun, Wirt, and Wood counties, the Little Kanawha gathers water from numerous creeks and streams. Its largest tributary is the Hughes River. & …

• Mountain State Art & Craft Fair

  … , and on-site demonstrations are among the event’s main attractions. Categories for exhibits and demonstrations range from baskets to wood furniture. Traditional dance and music are also part of the fair, and foods such as buckwheat pancakes, brown beans …

• Lumberjack Contests

  … life as restless timber cutters known as wood hicks spent their Sundays matching skills. … -trained professional athletes. Some work in the woods, but most do not. The third-oldest … thumb and forefinger on a block of wood that was also split with the same …

• Mammals

  … and numbers of species. Our only native rat, the Allegheny wood rat, lives in caves and rock crevices of the deciduous … , which subsists on smaller game, is relatively common in large wooded tracts in the state. Today’s largest mammalian predator is the …

• Maps, Atlases, and Gazetteers

  … of Public Works between 1815 and the Civil War. That series includes the excellent maps of Virginia counties produced by Boye and Wood during the 1820s as well as several maps by "Claudius Crozet":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1682, who …

• Marbles

  West Virginia is a world center of glass marble manufacturing, with all but one North American manufacturer located within the state. Play marbles account for only a small portion of production, with most marbles sold to industry for use as aerosol can …

• Mountain State Forest Festival

  … Symphony":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1230 to appearances by nationally known country musicians, craft and art shows, wood chopping and other timbering contests, old English knight tournaments, Irish bowling, dances, parades, and a carnival …

• Conservation Movement

  … on April 28, 1920. Protection of the newly acquired woodlands was the early focus, with fire prevention in the cut-over woods being a major concern. The passage of the Clarke-McNary Act by Congress in 1924 broadened the purpose of the national forests to …

• Catherine Marshall

  … (September 27, 1914-March 18, 1983) was born Catherine Sarah Wood in Johnson City, Tennessee, to Presbyterian minister John Ambrose Wood and his missionary wife, Lenora Whitaker Wood. The family moved to West Virginia and lived in " …

• Mast

  … percent for deer, and anywhere from 10 percent to 50 percent for ruffed grouse, blue jays, black bear, raccoon, wood ducks, and nuthatches. Wildlife biologists annually rate mast abundance which they use to predict wildlife abundance and subsequent game …

• Material Culture

  … split-rail fence was most common, with chestnut being the preferred wood due to its durability. Three types were commonly used: … farm. Axes were used for chopping, shaping, and splitting the wood necessary for every type of construction and for firewood. …

• Earl Core

  … , has been in print since 1948. In 1948, Core persuaded WVU administrators to set aside nearly 100 acres of steep, wooded hillside and floodplain as an arboretum. Today the "Core Arboretum":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1597 stands as …

• Corncribs

  … of cribs, which were sided with slats with regularly spaced gaps between. Early crib roofs were usually made of split-wood shingles, later replaced by tin roofing or asphalt shingles. A common design featured dual cribs under a single roof, with a …

• Natural Gas and Petroleum

  … Named "Volcano":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/880, it was situated near the headwaters of Oil Spring Run along the Wood-Ritchie county line. Camden, later a U.S. senator, joined John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Trust in 1875 and began …

• Natural History

  … furbearers and larger food animals such as beaver, river otter, wolves, woods bison and elk, as well as the passenger pigeon. George … gt;) and A. B. Brooks (<em>Forestry and Wood Industries</em>) provide excellent descriptions of the timbering …

• Jenes Cottrell

  … Known for their farming and trading, the Cottrells also worked with wood. During the "arts and crafts revival":http://www.wvencyclopedia … , and canes, and he put in chair bottoms of woven wood splits. He had a fine foot-powered, spring-pole lathe …

• Needham and Arthur Expedition

  … latter probably an indentured servant of Wood, with eight Indians to explore … just over a month later, and Wood sent them out again and … have of this exploration is by Wood, who was not on the … , Gabriel Arthur finally returned to Wood’s house at Fort Henry …

• Bernard P. McDonough

  Industrialist and philanthropist Bernard Patrick McDonough Jr. (May 25, 1903-October 12, 1985) was born in Texas, to an Irish railroading family. His immigrant grandfather had previously settled the family in Clarksburg and later in Belpre, Ohio, near …

• Uncle Jack McElwain

  … to have made trips to Webster County to visit McElwain and trade tunes. McElwain often traveled with another Webster fiddler, Tom Jack Woods, said to have been seven feet tall. McElwain’s most notable contest win was at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893. …

• New River

  … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/408, sent out in the summer of 1671 by Abraham Wood. It was known for at least 80 years as the Woods River. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, coal was king in southern …

• Newspapers

  … supplied preprinted sheets to local publishers who added their own copy and advertisements. The introduction of less expensive wood-pulp paper reduced costs. Legislative printing contracts sustained printers in the state capital, which moved from Wheeling …

• The Culture Center

  … Great Hall, with its white Alabama marble walls accented by West Virginia oak, a red Tennessee marble floor, gold and wood coffered ceiling, and two large dodecahedron-shaped bronze and crystal chandeliers, welcomes visitors. The 468-seat theater, behind …

• Davis & Elkins College

  … 1998 to 2008. He was followed by G. T. "Buck" Smith in 2008. Since August 1, 2016, Chris Wood has served as president. In 2022, Davis & Elkins initiated a Sustainable Resource Management degree program with training in wildlife ecology …

• Oak Park

  … and holidays. On August 25, 1909, 14 trains brought more than 4,000 people to the park. Oak Park’s nearly 100 wooded acres offered day visitors a wide variety of recreational activities as well as food, with lodging for those who wished to stay …