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Dunbar was a farming community until industries began to evolve in the city with the opening of glass and bottling plants in 1912. The Gravely Plow was invented in Dunbar in 1916. [6] Located at Dunbar is the Dutch Hollow Wine Cellars, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. [7]
Dutch Hollow Wine Cellars is a historic wine cellar located at Dunbar, Kanawha County, West Virginia. The cellars were built about 1855 and consists of three large stone vaults, 14 feet high at center. The walls are two feet thick. They were used to store wine for the aging process and were in operation for about three years. [2]
Benjamin Franklin Gravely (29 November 1876 – January 1953) of Dunbar, West Virginia, manufactured in 1916 a hand-pushed plow fitted with an auxiliary Indian motorcycle engine and driven by belts. [2] His goal was to build a tractor which would revolutionize gardening and lawn maintenance for the homeowner.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Hancock County, West Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
Dunbar Glass Co. was a glassmaking company in Dunbar, West Virginia. It operated from 1913 to 1953. It operated from 1913 to 1953. Some of the company's craftsmen formed Kanawha Glass Company when the Dunbar Glass company folded.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
Institute is an unincorporated community on the Kanawha River in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States. [1] Interstate 64 and West Virginia Route 25 pass by the community, which has grown to intermingle with nearby Dunbar. As of 2018, the community had a population of 1,489, 54% of whom were African American. [2]
West Dunbar is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 617. [2] West Dunbar is in the western part of the county, on the north side of the Kanawha River valley. It is bordered to the south and east by the city of Dunbar.