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The house at Traveller's Rest, near Kearneysville, is West Virginia's sole plantation house designated as a National Historic Landmark for its national-level historical significance. As of 2015, the majority of West Virginia's plantation houses remain under private ownership.
The Justice family, headed by patriarch Jim Justice, has extensive farm and mining [23] operations in West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. It farms 50,000 acres (200 km 2) through its Justice Family Farms group, headquartered in Beckley, West Virginia.
William Ballard Lenoir (1775–1852), mill-owner and Tennessee politician, he used both paid and forced labor in his mills. [183] Francis Lieber (1800–1872), German-American jurist and political philosopher who authored the Lieber Code during the American Civil War. He enslaved people in South Carolina before he moved north to New York. [184 ...
Coal miners from West Virginia – whom locals have lovingly dubbed the “West Virginia Boys” – moved a mountain in just three days to reopen a 2.7-mile stretch of Highway 64 between Bat Cave ...
American royalty may refer to American citizens who are members of royal families, ... West Virginia, US; member of the ruling family of Bumpe in Sierra Leone.
Samuel Washington, George Washington's younger brother, was buried in an unmarked grave at the cemetery at his Harewood estate (an interior view is pictured above) near Charles Town, West Virginia.
North Carolina plantation were identified by name, beginning in the 17th century. The names of families or nearby rivers or other features were used. The names assisted the owners and local record keepers in keeping track of specific parcels of land. In the early 1900s, there were 328 plantations identified in North Carolina from extant records.
A federal court blocked a company’s license to store nuclear waste in southeast New Mexico after the project faced stern opposition from environmental and industry groups in the years since it ...