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Chesapeake is a town in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 1,336 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] The town is situated on the Kanawha River .
Kanawha County (/ k ə ˈ n ɔː ə / kə-NAW-ə) is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 180,745, [1] making it West Virginia's most populous county. [2] The county seat is Charleston, [3] which is also the state capital and most populous city.
Myers was born in Chesapeake, West Virginia, the son of Dorothy Louise Brown Myers and Otis Louis Myers, a coal miner who spoke fluent German. He joined the U.S. Air Force in 1951. He was discharged in 1953 and went on to earn a bachelor's degree in sociology from West Virginia State University and an MFA in theatre from NYU. [3] [4]
Chesapeake (band), a folk-rock/progressive bluegrass band from Maryland Chesapeake, a novel published in 1978 by James Michener; Chesapeake, the third full-length album by Rachael Yamagata
Deaths 7 The Guyandotte River train wreck occurred on the morning of January 1, 1913, when the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway 's (C&O) train No. 99, scheduled to run from Hinton, West Virginia , to Russell, Kentucky , and headed by Mikado locomotive 820, fell through a bridge over the Guyandotte River near Huntington, West Virginia while ...
The people listed below were born in or otherwise closely associated with the town of Chesapeake, West Virginia. Pages in category "People from Chesapeake, West Virginia" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
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Davies was born in Cleveland, Ohio.He was a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received a master's degree in geology at Michigan State University.He came to Washington, DC during World War II, at which time he was an officer with the Army Map Service.