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99 unusual facts about 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.

116th Ohio Infantry

Companies F and K mustered in October 28, 1862, and joined regiment at Buckhannon, Virginia.

6th Ohio Cavalry

Following completion of training, the regiment moved to Wheeling, West Virginia on May 13 and then to Strasburg, Virginia to join Major General John C. Fremont's army in the Shenandoah Valley.

8th Ohio Cavalry

The remainder (4 companies that were on detached duty in Clarksburg, West Virginia) mustered out at the end of July.

Agnes Ward White

The Whites lived at Parkersburg, West Virginia, where Albert was publisher of the State Journal. She was one of the more private first ladies and shunned the role of hostess.

Appalachian String Band Music Festival

The Festival takes place each summer at Camp Washington-Carver, in Clifftop, Fayette County, West Virginia, United States and is sponsored by the West Virginia Division of Culture and History.

Arkansaw

Arkansas, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in West Virginia also known as Arkansaw

Arnettsville, West Virginia

It lies south of Georgetown on U.S. Route 19.

Barton Knob

In 2005, the Rainbow Gathering considered using (and some may have used) strip-mined land near Barton Knob after being displaced from the original meeting site near Alpena.

Bateau

West Virginia author W. E. Blackhurst used "bateau" in his books of Pocahontas County and the Greenbrier River.

Bethuel Kitchen

Born in Ganotown, Virginia (now West Virginia), Kitchen attended the common schools as a child and later engaged in agricultural pursuits and stock raising.

Beverly Hills, West Virginia

Beverly Hills is the name of two communities in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

Blazer's Scouts

Colonel Carr B. White organized the original cavalry company (initially known as the Brigade Scouts or Spencer's Scouts) at Fayetteville, West Virginia, in mid-September 1863.

Browns Corner, West Virginia

It lies at the crossroads of Leetown Pike and Wiltshire Road between Leetown and Charles Town.

Bubbling Spring, West Virginia

Bubbling Spring is situated on Cacapon River Road (West Virginia Secondary Route 14) along the Cacapon River south of Capon Bridge and north of Hooks Mills.

Burnsides

Burnsides, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in the United States

Burnwell

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

Capon Springs Station, West Virginia

Located along Capon Springs Road (West Virginia Secondary Route 16) where Dry Run meets Capon Springs Run on the western end of Middle Ridge, Capon Springs Station served as a stop for guests at the Capon Springs Resort in Capon Springs and people picnicking at Capon Lake on the Cacapon River.

Charles A. Weaver

Finally, he has business interests in Wheeling, and at various places in Pennsylvania and the west.

Child of God

In February 2012, James Franco began shooting a film adaptation of Child of God in Hillsboro, West Virginia.

Clifford Bias

Born in Huntington, West Virginia in 1910, he claimed that since the age of five he had been able to communicate with people who had long since died.

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."

Delf Norona

Norona was very active in stamp collecting in the Ohio Valley area of West Virginia, founding the Ohio Valley Stamp Club in Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1935.

Doc Edwards

Howard Rodney Edwards (born December 10, 1936 in Red Jacket, West Virginia) was a backup catcher with the Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Athletics, New York Yankees, and the Philadelphia Phillies over parts of five seasons spanning eight years.

Dulcie Cooper

Charleston, West Virginia Gazette, New York Actress Has Part in Players' Show, Sunday, 18 October 1936, Page 2.

Edgar Odell Lovett

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

Evan Mack

His choir piece, Of Fire and Form, commissioned by the WV chapter of the ACDA premiered in February, 2011 at the Clay Center in Charleston, West Virginia and is currently on tour with the Marshall University Chamber Choir.

Everett Francis Briggs

In 1956, a few days before Christmas, he arrived in Monongah, West Virginia, where he became interested in the history of the Monongah Mining Disaster of December 6, 1907.

Faith Daniels

Born Faith Augustine in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Daniels attended Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia–where she was initiated as a member of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority–and graduated from Trinity High School in Washington, Pennsylvania.

Finescale saddled darter

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

Fort Steuben Bridge

The Fort Steuben Bridge, originally the Weirton-Steubenville Bridge, was a suspension bridge which spanned the Ohio River from Steubenville, Ohio to Weirton, West Virginia and carried U.S. Route 22 and then Ohio State Route 822 during its existence.

Freeman, West Virginia

Freeman, Upshur County, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Upshur County, West Virginia

Garnet Mimms

Garnet Mimms (born Garrett Mimms on November 16, 1933 in Ashland, West Virginia) is an American singer, influential in soul music and rhythm and blues.

Gaudineer Knob

His headquarters at that time occupied the former Craig Lumber Company office at Thornwood.

George Gubbins

Gubbins also raced at Waterford Park in Chester, West Virginia and various other tracks in the United States.

Gesundheit! Institute

Institute (German for 'Good health!') is a project founded by Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams in 1971, located outside of Hillsboro in Pocahontas County, West Virginia.

Glady Fork

From the confluence the Glady Fork flows north-northeastwardly in a meandering course between Middle Mountain and Shavers Mountain in the Monongahela National Forest, through eastern Randolph County into southern Tucker County, where it joins the Dry Fork at the community of Gladwin.

Greenbrier River

It then ascended the River to the vicinity of Hillsboro and Droop Mountain and made its way through present Pocahontas County by way of future Marlinton, Indian Draft Run, and Edray.

Harper, West Virginia

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

Harriet Elizabeth Byrd

Byrd graduated with a bachelor's degree in education from West Virginia State College, a historically black college in Institute, West Virginia in 1949, and returned to Wyoming in order to apply for a teaching job with the Laramie County School District, but was denied employment because of her race.

Harry Evans Watkins

Born in Watson, West Virginia, Watkins was U.S. Army Private First Class, Signal Corps, 1918-1919.

Harter

Harter, West Virginia, unincorporated community in West Virginia, United States

Henry M. Mathews

Born in Frankford, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, he received an A.M. from the University of Virginia and B.L. from Lexington Law School.

J. Johnston Pettigrew

He died three days later at Edgewood Manor plantation near Bunker Hill, West Virginia.

Jim Jamieson

Other stints in Jamieson's career as a teaching and club pro have included lead instructor at the John Jacobs Golf School, head pro at The Pines Golf Club, head pro at the Pete Dye Golf Club, Director of Golf at Whitewater Golf Club in Thunder Bay, Ontario, and as operator of the Jim Jamieson School of Golf at the Resort at Glade Springs in Daniels, West Virginia.

Jimtown, West Virginia

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

John G. Inglis

He left Westinghouse to become Electrical Engineer for the Co-operative Transit Company in Wheeling, West Virginia.

John J. Cornwell

John J. Cornwell Elementary School in Levels is named for him because of his background in and strong support of education in the state of West Virginia.

John R. Ramsey

He attended the public schools and a private school in Parkersburg, West Virginia, where he lived from 1872 to 1879.

Johnsons Mill, West Virginia

Smith Crossroads on Winchester Grade Road (West Virginia Secondary Route 13) is to its west by way of Autumn Acres Road (West Virginia Secondary Route 26), New Hope is to its north by way of Spohr's Road (West Virginia Secondary Route 8), and Duckwall is located to its east on Johnson's Mill Road along the western flanks of Sleepy Creek Mountain.

Johnsontown, Jefferson County, West Virginia

It lies between the communities of Browns Corner and Bardane on Wiltshire Road at its junction with County Route 14.

Joseph M. Finotti

His last literary effort, which he did not live to see published, entitled "The Mystery of the Wizard Clip" (Baltimore, 1879), is a story of preternatural occurrences at Smithfield, West Virginia, involving Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin.

Justin Merriman

Merriman has photographed and covered many national and international stories, including the events of September 11 and the crash of United Flight 93, the Sago mine disaster in Sago, West Virginia, polio in India, life in Cuba, the 2008 Parliamentary Elections in Pakistan, the war in Afghanistan and stories across the country.

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.

Little Orleans, Maryland

Little Orleans is located on the Potomac River at the mouth of Fifteenmile Creek across from Orleans Cross Roads, West Virginia.

Losing stream

It flows into an underground channel northeast of Baker along West Virginia Route 259 at "the Sinks" and reappears near Wardensville as the Cacapon River.

Louis C. Shepard

During that time he participated in the Battle of Rich Mountain in Randolph County, Virginia (now West Virginia).

Louis-Joseph de Montcalm

Montcalm High School in Montcalm, West Virginia, although the area is not historically connected to France or the French and Indian War.

Maryland Route 478

Westbound MD 180 provides access to westbound US 340 toward Harpers Ferry and Charles Town.

Masak Scimitar

The aircraft was involved in a minor accident on 25 April 1998 when trying to land after hitting sinking air while ridge soaring near Scrabble, West Virginia.

Meador

Meador, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Mingo County, West Virginia, United States

Mildred Gillars

Gillars served her sentence at the Federal Reformatory for Women in Alderson, West Virginia.

Mullens, West Virginia

In the early 20th century, coal-mining manager and developer William Nelson Page of Ansted helped open the Winding Gulf Coalfield with plans for the Deepwater Railway, a new short-line railroad.

NWL Tag Team Championship

The Brothers Superior (Neil Superior & Superior) defeated The Cream Team (Dino Casanova & Rip Sawyer) in Moorefield, West Virginia in 1989 to become the first champions.

Oakland, West Virginia

It is located along Virginia Line Road (CR 8) north of Unger and south of Stotlers Crossroads.

Pat McGeehan

In 2006 he became President of Mountain State Packaging Incorporated in Newell, West Virginia, and in 2007 became President of Panhandle Industries in Weirton, West Virginia.

Pepsi Billion Dollar Sweepstakes

In the 2003 version, hosted by Drew Carey, Richard Bay of West Virginia claimed the US$1 million guaranteed prize, but did not win the billion-dollar prize (his number was 2-2-8-2-3-8, the winning number was 1-7-8-2-3-8).

Pere Marquette 1225

In August 1991, 1225 along with NKP 765 pulled a 31 car excursion train during the National Railway Historical Society's annual convention in Huntington, West Virginia.

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.

Robert D. Bullard

Over the 1980s Bullard widened his study of environmental racism to the whole American South, focusing on communities in Houston, in Dallas, Texas, Alsen, Louisiana, Institute, West Virginia, and Emelle, Alabama.

Rockland, West Virginia

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

Royal Vendors

Royal Vendors, Inc., is a manufacturer of cold-drink vending machines located in Kearneysville, West Virginia.

Ruckman, West Virginia

Ruckman is located at the intersections of Ash Ruckman Road (WV Secondary Route 7/4) with J.C. Ruckman (WV Secondary Route 12/6) and Edgar Loy (WV Secondary Route 7/7) Roads south of Augusta and northeast of Kirby.

Sally Schneider

Another major influence in Schneider’s life has been a small town called Helvetia in the West Virginia Appalachians, that had been settled by Swiss immigrants in the 1860s.

Samuel Bernard Dick

He then commanded the Fifth Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia, and proceeded to New Creek, West Virginia, in July 1863.

Second Battle of Winchester

Nevertheless, the Confederates were able to capture portions of the Federal supply train at nearby Bunker Hill, West Virginia, along with 75 prisoners.

Sinks of Gandy

The Sinks of Gandy — also called the Sinks of Gandy Creek, or simply “The Sinks” — are a modestly celebrated cave and underground stream at Osceola in eastern Randolph County, West Virginia, USA.

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.

South Charleston, West Virginia

Country singer-songwriter Kathy Mattea was born in the city's Thomas Memorial Hospital to parents who lived in nearby Cross Lanes, where she grew up

St. Lawrence Boom and Lumber Company

The St. Lawrence Boom and Lumber Company is one of the "central backdrops" to the plot of Pocahontas County author W. E. Blackhurst book, "Riders of the Flood." Every September the town of Ronceverte holds an outdoor drama of Riders of the Flood just belowstream the location of the mill company.

Sugar Grove Station

Sugar Grove Station is an American government communications site located near Sugar Grove in Pendleton County, West Virginia operated by the National Security Agency (NSA).

Terry Timmons

She was born in Cleveland, Ohio, shortly after her parents and brothers had moved from Charleston, West Virginia.

Thomas Gaddis

From September 1776 to January 1777, Gaddis was stationed near Beech Bottom, West Virginia, about ten miles north of Fort Henry (West Virginia).

Thomas R. Ranson

Today, local folks in Ansted, in an area which became the new State of West Virginia, tend the gravesite of the young mother and speak of her little orphaned boy who grew up to be the legendary Stonewall Jackson.

Timber Ridge

From WV 127/VA 127 at Good to Lehew, Timber Ridge serves as the boundary line between Hampshire County, West Virginia, and Frederick County, Virginia.

Todd Bullard

Bullard was born in Wheeling, West Virginia to L. Todd Bullard and Katharine Virginia Netting Bullard.

Trichopetalum whitei

The species is recorded from caves in the upper Potomac River drainage in Virginia (Augusta, Page, Rockingham, and Shenandoah Counties) and West Virginia (Hardy, Grant, and Pendleton Counties).

Tygart Creek

It rises south of Rockport and flows generally northward through Rockport and Mineral Wells.

United States House of Representatives elections in West Virginia, 2012

Under the new map, Mason County is moved from the 2nd district to the 3rd district, while the 1st district is unchanged.

Virginia State Route 127

Bloomery Pike continues west as WV 127, which passes through the historic community of Bloomery on its way to a junction with WV 29 at Forks of Cacapon.

Virginia State Route 83

The road continues as WV 83, which parallels the state line through the West Virginia section of Paynesville before descending from the ridge to Bradshaw.

Virginius

Virginius Island, West Virginia, an island on the Shenandoah River in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

WAMN

WAMN is a Classic Country formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Green Valley, West Virginia, serving Bluefield in Virginia and Bluefield and Princeton in West Virginia.

Wappocomo

Wappocomo, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Hampshire County, West Virginia

West Virginia's 2nd congressional district election, 2006

He then marticulated at West Virginia University's law school, where he served as editor-in-chief of the West Virginia Law Review.

Whitacre, Virginia

Whitacre lies on the old Braddock Road on the eastern flanks of Timber Ridge between Good and Cross Junction.

William Soden Hastings

He died in Red Sulphur Springs, Virginia (now West Virginia) and was buried in Old Cemetery, Mendon.

Woodrow, West Virginia

Woodrow, Hampshire and Morgan Counties, West Virginia, an unincorporated community along the border of Hampshire and Morgan Counties

WVexplorer

Established in 1999 by journalist and historian David T. Sibray through Sibray & Associates, of Beckley, West Virginia, the publication was conceived to provide visitors with a journalistic alternative to information being provided through travel bureaus 1.


2009 Marshall Thundering Herd football team

The schools, located 82 miles apart, played 52 times between 1905 and 2004 in "The Battle for the Bell," with the trophy symbolizing the Ohio River separating Ohio and West Virginia.

Alex B. Mahood

He designed the Women's Dormitory at the West Virginia University in Morgantown, United States Steel Building in Gary, Skyway Drive-In Theater in Brush Fork, the Deco-Style Mercer County Courthouse (1930-1931) in Princeton and the Guyan Theater in Logan.

Appalachian Center for Wilderness Medicine

At the time of its founding, ACWM served the American states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Arden, West Virginia

Arden is the name of two unincorporated communities in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

Caustic Eye Productions

Caustic Eye Productions is a small Charleston, West Virginia based record label and promotions company that was started in August of 2001 by Rod Lanham.

Crossroads Mall

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

David T. Abercrombie

Abercrombie later came to study at Baltimore City College and became a practicing civil engineer and topographer, including explorer and chief of survey for Norfolk & Western Railroad in the coal and timber lands of West Virginia.

Dildo, Newfoundland and Labrador

The town's unusual name has brought it a certain amount of notoriety in the same vein as Fucking, Austria; Anus, France; Nob End, England; Effin, Ireland; Twatt, Scotland; Intercourse, Pennsylvania; Bald Knob, West Virginia; and Wankum, Germany.

Federal Correctional Institution, Ashland

FCI Ashland's primary service area includes Kentucky, southern Indiana, southern Ohio, western Pennsylvania (Greater Pittsburgh), Tennessee, and West Virginia.

Godfrey M. Hyams

In the early twentieth century, he was the principal financial manager for the construction of the Deepwater Railway in West Virginia and the Tidewater Railway in Virginia, which were combined in 1907 to form the Virginian Railway (VGN), completed in 1909.

Good, West Virginia

Good is located on the Bloomery Pike (West Virginia Route 127) at I.L. Pugh Road (West Virginia Secondary Route 6/2) east of Bloomery and northwest of Winchester on the West Virginia/Virginia border.

Harry Crandall

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

Hebron, West Virginia

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

ISG Weirton Steel

In 1905 Weir and his partner, James Phillips, bought a tin mill in Clarksburg, West Virginia.

Joan C. Edwards Charitable Foundation

The Joan C. Edwards Charitable Foundation was created in 2006 upon the death of Joan C. Edwards, a well-known West Virginia-based philanthropist.

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.

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.

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.

Thomas M. Harrigan

In 2003 he left the Operations Division and began his service as the Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge for the Washington Field Division where he had responsibility over High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Forces (HIDTA) in West Virginia, and in the administrative and special support units.

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, 1904

Roosevelt and Fairbanks defeated the Democratic nominees, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals Alton B. Parker of New York and his running mate Senator Henry G. Davis of West Virginia.

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.