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• The Rhododendron

  … Martinsville, Moundsville, Wheeling, Wellsburg, Weirton, Chester, Morgantown, Fairmont, and Pittsburgh. Summer performances of Mrs. Henry Woods’s 1863 melodrama _East Lynne_ were supplemented by local entertainment at each stop. Because of low bridges …

• Washington's Western Lands

  … , primarily on the Ohio and Great Kanawha rivers in present Wood, Jackson, Mason, Putnam and Kanawha counties. Washington’s ownership of … Approximately 9,000 acres on the Ohio River in present Wood and Jackson counties were conveyed to Washington, who also …

• Marc Harshman

  … He says that living in West Virginia is important to his work: “I am the kind of writer who needs to know where the woods are and that there are good friends and neighbors nearby.” Harshman taught for many years, first at the college level and then in …

• Mullens

  … Gulf coalfield. Between 1917 and 1919, the young town experienced two fires and a flood, destroying many of the original wood-frame buildings. Afterward, a city ordinance required that buildings be constructed of brick or stone. The five-story Wyoming …

• Greenbrier Classic

  … playoffs leading to the FedExCup. Televised nationally, the Greenbrier Classic attracted some well-known professionals, including Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, and Tom Watson. The Greenbrier Classic winners were Stuart Appleby (2010), Scott Stallings (2011 …

• Henderson Hall

  … Hall is a grand antebellum mansion overlooking the Ohio River near "Williamstown":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1279, Wood County. It was the home of five generations of the Henderson family, who had earlier occupied a log house on the …

• Secession of Virginia

  … The most ardent secessionists were led by the easterner and former governor, Henry A. Wise, but notably included Samuel Woods of Barbour County in present West Virginia. While the convention moved relatively slowly, events outside Virginia influenced …