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• Eastern Panhandle

  … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/706, machinery, "chemicals":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1124, and "wood products":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1341. Mineral production includes "coal":https://www. …

• Food Preservation

  … served. Various meats and fish were smoked with apple or hickory wood. The drying of meats, fruits, and vegetables was common. … a special treat. These products and many others were stored in wood or metal bins, cloth bags, or sealed glass containers. …

• Forests

  … and abundant assemblage of life, the total forest complex is wildlife habitat. The list of organisms present in the West Virginia woods is long, and includes bacteria, algae, fungi, worms and nematodes, insects and spiders, amphibians and reptiles, birds, …

• Fort Upper Tract

  … , who was in charge of "frontier defenses":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2075, directed that the fort be constructed of wood in a quadrangular shape. The fort was to have walls 60 feet long and bastions in all four corners. Barracks, a …

• Fox Hunting

  … the chase is the desired end unto itself. The activity consists of training and running hounds in packs of up to 30 dogs in wooded areas. It is a nighttime activity, and listening on a nearby hill becomes a social setting for men to brag and boast about …

• Frederick County, Virginia

  … Shawnee Springs, Hite’s followers established a settlement known as Opequon. In 1743, when the county’s government was established, James Wood laid out Frederick Town on the site of Opequon. In 1752, Frederick Town was renamed Winchester. It is the county …

• The Frontier

  … came was the Capt. James Neal group that settled at "Parkersburg":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1811, "Wood County":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1339, in 1785. From that part of Monongalia County that became part …

• Gaudineer Knob

  … and fauna are similar to that of northern New England and southern Canada. The variety of birds found in summer, especially the wood warblers and four kinds of brown thrushes, attracts many visitors. Also found here is the rare and endemic "Cheat …

• Geography

  … ":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2116 are major concentrations in the Ohio, Monongahela, and Kanawha river valleys. About 40 percent of the state’s total manufacturing employment is located in Kanawha, Hancock, Wood, and Cabell counties.

• Germans

  … in "Lewis County":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1362. German settlements, including Lubeck, had been made in "Wood County":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1339 in the 1850s. In 1865, Diss Debar appointed an agent in …

• Governor’s Mansion

  … a flat roof onto which several second floor rooms open. These second floor balconies also have low balustrades with distinctive designs in wood. The porch to the east is open, while the porch to the west is enclosed. A single story entranceway at the rear …

• Graceland

  … with a smaller attic. The lower stories and chimneys are of native West Virginia sandstone, and the upper story is covered with wood shingles. The entire building is capped by a roof of red Vermont slate. The grand interior is elaborately and beautifully …

• Grant County

  … needed seasonal income to the farmers who peeled bark from trees in their woodlands. Today forest industries remain important. Allegheny Wood Products is a leader in the industry, with a host of independent operators involved in timber production. A key …

• Greenbrier

  … been used in making an amber-colored jelly and a drink like root beer. Greenbrier may be found in thickets, open woods, fields, fence rows, and along woodland borders throughout the state. The often impenetrable thickets of greenbrier and their painful …

• Greenbrier County

  … site of the largest hardwood manufacturing plant in the world. Poplar, oak, and maple were among the native "woods processed":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1341 at Meadow River. "Coal mining":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Eleanor

  … roads and houses and digging water and sewer lines. The houses were built to last, from locally made cinder blocks and chestnut wood. Serious work began in 1934. The design included a community farm and barn, public gas and water works, workshops, a …

• Elkins

  … ":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/728 center, has various lumber mills, brokers, lumber equipment operations, and "wood processing":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1341 plants. Elkins is a historic crossroads. U.S. 33, …

• Flora

  … Common wildflowers are Canada mayflower, white wood sorrel, painted trillium, sweet white … /articles/1983, spring beauties, white wood sorrel, Canada violet, sweet white … , three-toothed cinquefoil, oceanorus, goldthread, wood lily, dwarf cornel, and woolly …

• The Environment

  … soon depleted the large animals, such as woods bison, elk, and "deer": … other building materials. These engineered "wood products":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … profitable way to remove low value wood from the forests while allowing the …

• Exploration

  … /558 and gazed down upon the "Shenandoah Valley":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/390. In 1671, "Abraham Wood":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1335 dispatched from Fort Henry, at the falls of the Appomattox River ( …

• Fences

  … with a froe, or made of sawed wood in later times. A well-made paling … could never have been enclosed using traditional wood or rock fence techniques. Barbed wire had … down the other on rudimentary steps. Whether wood, stone, or wire, fences helped to …

• Fenton Art Glass Company

  … and glass beads, and the gift shop remained open selling glass items in its inventory. In 2017, the land was purchased by Wood County Schools, and the new Williamstown-Waverly Elementary School opened there in fall 2020. The gift shop moved to a new …

• Ferns

  … many natural habitats throughout the state. Ferns play an important role in the understory of both coniferous and deciduous woods. Though more prominently residents of moist-shady forests, ferns inhabit environments as divergent as peat "bogs": …

• Margaret Agnew Blennerhassett

  Margaret Agnew Blennerhassett, wife of "Harman Blennerhassett":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/538, was born in the northern England town of Bishop Auckland in 1771. She lived from 1800 to 1806 in a grand 16-room mansion she and her …

• William Crawford

  … in search of valuable bottomlands. The next year, Crawford surveyed thousands of acres in present West Virginia, including 2,314 acres in Wood County, known as Washington Bottom, and 10,000 acres at the confluence of the Ohio and Kanawha rivers in Mason …