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Handley is a town in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 224 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] Handley was first established in 1877 and known as Upper Creek until July 29, 1881, when its name was changed to Handley for pioneer settlers who farmed the area.
Danville is a town in Boone County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 660 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] Danville was incorporated in 1911 and named for Dan Rock, [ 5 ] the town's first postmaster.
A Douglas C-47D Skytrain (built as a C-47B-1-DK), 43-48298, c/n 25559, [96] of the 123d Air Base Group, Godman AFB, Kentucky, [97] with nine officers and 12 enlisted men on board to attend the funeral of a brother pilot who died in a crash Thursday, crashes ~eight miles NE of Kanawha Airport, Charleston, West Virginia, when it clips the top of ...
Cedar Grove is a town in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States.The population was 714 at the 2020 census. [2] Cedar Grove was incorporated in 1902. Its name is derived from the time the town was established, when a large juniper forest, misidentified as cedars by early settlers, was growing at that location.
Handley Wildlife Management Area is located on 784 acres (317 ha) [2] northwest of Marlinton in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. It is near the headwaters of the Williams River in the Monongahela National Forest .
High Gate (also known as the James Edwin Watson House or Ross Funeral Home) [1] is an historic residence located at 800 Fairmont Avenue in Fairmont, West Virginia.. The High Gate house and carriage house were built ca. 1910-1913 by Fairmont industrialist and financier, James E. Watson, son of the "father of the West Virginia coal industry," James O. Watson.
The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. [1] West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. [2]
The Sheltering Arms Hospital in West Virginia closed in 1923 after its services were replaced by county hospitals. Dr. Otis K. Rice donated papers from the hospital to the West Virginia state archives. He coauthored a book with Wayne Williams, A History of the Sheltering Arms Hospital. External links. WV Gazette; Pioneer Nurses of West Virginia