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3 unusual facts about Kanawha


Kanawha

The United States Coast Guard Cutter Kanawha, a buoy tender in Pine Bluff, Arkansas

William Gordon Mathews

He was Referee of Bankruptcy for Kanawha, West Virginia from 1898-1908; Clerk of the Court for Kanawha, West Virginia 1903-1904; and President of West Virginia Bar Association in 1913.

He entered a law partnership partnership with Wesley Mallohan and George McClintic and was soon appointed to the position of Referee of Bankruptcy for Kanawha, West Virginia in 1898 by John B. Jackson.


Alfred Beckley

By summer 1861, Beckley was in charge of the 12th Brigade of Virginia militia against Union troops at Cotton Hill, West Virginia, in the Kanawha Valley.

Appalachian Plateau

The main physiographic sections (generally ordered from the northeast to the southwest) of the plateau are named the Mohawk section, the Catskill section, the southern New York section, the Allegheny Plateau section, the Kanawha section, the Cumberland Plateau section, and the Cumberland Mountains section.

Army of the Kanawha

Confederate units in the vital Kanawha River valley of western Virginia were styled the "Army of the Kanawha" after they were put under the command of former Virginia governor Henry A. Wise on June 6, 1861.

Buffalo, West Virginia

Historic tribes such as the Huron, from the Great Lakes region, and the Conoy (also spelled Conois and Kanawha) were driven out of the central valley by Iroquois' invading from their base in present-day western New York.

Burnwell

Burnwell, West Virginia, a community in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States

Canty

Canty House, aka "The Magnolia" historic home Kanawha County, West Virginia

Pocatalico River

The Pocatalico rises in Roane County near the community of Looneyville and flows generally southwestwardly through southern Roane, northern Kanawha and southeastern Putnam Counties, past the community of Sissonville.

Smithers Creek

Smithers Creek rises in the unincorporated community of Mount Olive and flows generally southwestward through the unincorporated communities of Marting and Cannelton, to the city of Smithers, where it flows into the Kanawha River.

West Virginia State Capitol

The front of the building faces the Kanawha River, and the entire capitol plaza is bordered by Kanawha Boulevard East (also known as U.S. Route 60 and the Midland Trail), Greenbrier Street (also a part of Route 60 and West Virginia Route 114, where the latter terminates), California Avenue and Piedmont Road.

WVVA

In addition to its main studios, WVVA operates a Beckley Bureau (on Main Street along North Kanawha Street/WV 210) and a "virtual" Greenbrier Valley Bureau (covering Summers, Monroe, and Greenbrier Counties in West Virginia as well as Giles County, Virginia).


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