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unusual facts about Buffalo, West Virginia


French Mitchell

French (Curley) Mitchell was a well-known American fiddler from Buffalo, West Virginia.


10th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The 10th West Virginia was organized at Camp Pickens, Canaan, Glenville, Clarkesville, Sutton, Philippi, and Piedmont in western Virginia between March 12 and May 18, 1862.

Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport

49 of the passengers were high school exchange students visiting Peru from Buffalo, New York.

Battle of Pease River

The site was long a favorite of the Comanche, providing both cover from the fierce blue northers that hit the plains, and ample forage for their ponies, with easy buffalo hunting from the nearby herds.

Bob Burden

Bob Burden (born 1952, Buffalo, New York) is an American comic book artist and writer, best known as the creator of Flaming Carrot Comics and the Mystery Men.

Buffalo Grove ambush

The Buffalo Grove ambush occurred near Buffalo Grove, Illinois, a small, unincorporated settlement in present-day Ogle County.

Buffalo, Victoria

The town was originally settled as a part of the rail-line link between Foster and Leongatha during the late 1800s.

Canada 2014

Canada 2014 is the name of a concert tour by the Buffalo-based rock band Goo Goo Dolls, in support of their album Magnetic.

Cedric Smith

Cedric C. Smith (1895–1969), All-American football player for the University of Michigan and the Buffalo All-Americans

Chief Blue Horse

Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show was part of the celebration during the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle in England, and toured through Birmingham, Salford, and London for five months.

Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance

Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance (December 1, 1890 – March 20, 1932), born Sylvester Clark Long, was an American journalist, writer and actor from Winston-Salem, North Carolina who became internationally prominent as a spokesman for Indian causes.

Clara Sipprell

Because of the work of George Eastman and the establishment of the Eastman Kodak Company in Buffalo, the city became an important center for American photography in the early part of the 20th century.

Craig Cobb

In 2003 he relocated to Frost, West Virginia, where he opened a grocery store and subsequently registered a business called "Gray's Store, Aryan Autographs and 14 Words, L.L.C."

Crossroads Mall

Crossroads Mall (West Virginia), a shopping mall near Beckley, West Virginia, owned by Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust

Dennis Gabryszak

By January 2014, that number grew to seven, including Kristy Mazurek, who hosts a Sunday political TV talk show for Buffalo's NBC affiliate, WGRZ.

Edgar Odell Lovett

After graduating from Shreve High School, he earned his B.A. at Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia, in 1890.

Finast

The remaining Midwest Finast stores were rebadged as Tops Friendly Markets, its Buffalo, New York-based unit.

Finescale saddled darter

Knapp Creek in Pocahontas County, West Virginia is home to a population known colloquially as the Knapp Creek Candy Darter.

HarborCenter

The HarborCenter will become the home of the Buffalo Jr. Sabres and recently acquired Buffalo Regals youth hockey organization.

Harper, West Virginia

Harper is the name of several communities in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

Harry Crandall

At the height of his career, Crandall owned eighteen theaters in Washington D.C., Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Indian Trade

Other products desired by the Europeans produced other components of the Indian Trade, including the deerskin trade in the what is now the east coast of the United States, and the Pemmican and buffalo skin and meat trade on the Great Plains.

Jim Ailinger

He was part of an initiative to boost gate attendance for the Buffalo, New York franchise, mixing local talent such as Ailinger with big-name stars such as Benny Boynton, Eddie Kaw, Pete Calac and Swede Youngstrom.

Jimtown, West Virginia

Jimtown is the name of several communities in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

John Aloysius Green

In addition to the Champion quarries, Mr. Green opened a quarry on Buffalo Creek, worked the old state quarry on the Wapsipinicon River for a time, a quarry at Wasioja, Minnesota, and one at Shuster, Missouri.

Kathy Mattea

Mattea was born in South Charleston, West Virginia, because it had the nearest hospital to her parents' home in Cross Lanes, where she grew up, graduating from nearby Nitro High School.

Kevin Gaughan

Gaughan wrote At First Light: Strengthening Buffalo Niagara in the New Century which was published by the Canisius College Press in 2003.

Lake Tianchi Monster

It was claimed that a large buffalo-like creature attacked three people, but was shot six times.

Lemp Mansion

"Cragwold", in western Kirkwood, had an observation tower, two servants' houses, and a collection of birds, antelope, sheep, yaks, buffalo and other animals.

Live in Buffalo: July 4th, 2004

The concert was shot and recorded in downtown Buffalo on Niagara Square in front of Buffalo City Hall.

Major Bowes Amateur Hour

"It is composed of 12 prize winning acts which have never before appeared in Buffalo, with Ted Mack, former conductor of Shea's Buffalo Orchestra, returning in the role of master of ceremonies. On the screen will be Mickey Rooney, the delightful star of the Judge Hardy family series, in his newest role, "Hold That Kiss" with Maureen O'Sullivan and Dennis O'Keefe. Shea's Buffalo News will conclude the bill."

Makrokosmos

The first volume of the set was composed in 1972, while the last was completed in early 1979; the first performance of all four volumes in sequence was given by Ivar Mikhashoff, Aki Takahashi, Stephen Manes, Freida Manes, Jan Williams and Lynn Harbold, in Buffalo, New York, on 12 June 1980.

Mountain Stage

Over the years, the show has featured such international luminaries as Phish, Barenaked Ladies, Galactic, Bruce Hornsby, the Derek Trucks Band, Chris Thile, Bell X-1, Judy Collins, They Might Be Giants, Norah Jones, Hubert Sumlin & Pinetop Perkins, Charles Brown, Martina McBride, Little Big Town, Amos Lee, Joan Baez, Jakob Dylan and Regina Spektor, as well as Kathy Mattea, Tim O'Brien and over a hundred West Virginia artists.

Norman Tate

Norman ("Norm") W. Tate (born January 2, 1942 in Oswald, West Virginia) is a retired long jumper from the United States, who set the world's best year performance in 1971 by jumping 8.23 metres on 1971-05-22 at a meet in El Paso.

North-West Rebellion

Angered by what seemed to be unfair treaties and the withholding of vital provisions by the Canadian government,and also by the dwindling buffalo population, their main source of food, Big Bear and his Cree decided to rebel after the successful Métis victory at Duck Lake.

Patty Parsons

Patty Parsons (born in West Virginia) is the former soulful lead singer of AnExchange, a Marin County, California-based folk rock group of the early 1970s.

Peter Ambroziak

Drafted from the Ontario Hockey League's Ottawa 67's, Ambroziak debuted with Buffalo's American Hockey League affiliates, the Rochester Americans, in the 1991–92 season; however he never fulfilled the potential that the scouts had seen in him.

Red Hill Valley Parkway

Opponents asserted that two groups would be the chief beneficiaries of the expressway: long-distance truckers travelling from Detroit to Buffalo, and land developers on the Hamilton Mountain.

Red House, West Virginia

Due to the extremely windy mountain terrain, WV 34 is a very dangerous road for a 21 mile stretch from its junction with WV 62 to Kenna, where it intersects with County Route 21, which provides access to I-77.

Robitaille

Mike Robitaille, Canadian ice hockey player, defenceman for, among other teams, the Buffalo Sabres, for which he currently serves as commentator

Rockland, West Virginia

Rockland is the name of several communities in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

Ruffin Pleasant

He was also a delegate to the Democratic convention in 1924, which took 103 ballots to nominate John W. Davis of West Virginia as the party's compromise presidential nominee.

Samuel Decius Hubbard

He moved to Mondovi in Buffalo County in 1878, and was elected a fourth time to the Assembly in 1884 for Buffalo County as a Republican, with 1,604 votes to 1,177 for Democratic former Assemblyman George Cowie.

Sattler

Sattler's, a regional department store chain headquartered at 998 Broadway, Buffalo, New York

Tri-state area

Three other prominent areas that have been labeled tri-state areas are the Cincinnati tri-state area, including Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana; the Pittsburgh tri-state area, covering parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia; and the Chicago tri-state area, also known as Chicagoland, which includes Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin.

United States presidential election in New York, 1972

This was also the last election in which a Republican presidential nominee has won the upstate counties of Erie County, where the city of Buffalo is located, and Albany County, where the state capital of Albany is located.

United States Senate election in West Virginia, 2008

Both Representative Alan Mollohan (D-1st District) and Representative Nick Rahall (D-3rd District) had more formidable challenges from Republicans when compared to 2000 and 2002.

Wallace E. Cunningham

He commenced his formal architectural instruction at Hutchinson Central Technical High School in Buffalo, New York, and then the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, where he was influenced by Marya Lilien, one of the first female apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright.

WDCX

WDCX-FM, a radio station (99.5 FM) licensed to Buffalo, New York, United States

Willis Page

He was also the associate conductor in Buffalo, New York, where he conducted three quarters of all concerts and has been guest conductor for several orchestras including the Boston Pops Orchestra (seven times), Denver, St Louis, Rochester, Hartford, Muncie, Yomiuri, Toronto and Jerusalem.


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