The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia ...

Though West Virginia is among the 10 poorest states ... on free rather than enslaved labor to build such industries as coal, railroads and salt. Also, they scratched out a living on yeoman farms ...

Heather Utt's home in Gassaway, West Virginia, is over 100 years ... "Someone living at the house was a coal dealer, or, worked for the railroad. the rail road car was robbed.

No injuries have been reported after a derailment involving a CSX coal train early today (Jan. 7 ... The derailment site is on CSX’s Rivanna Subdivision, approximately 66 miles west of Richmond, Va. — ...

A woman living in an old home in West Virginia discovered a piece of local history when renovating, wowing social-media users.

Sometime after the Civil War, he moved to West Virginia and was quick to recognize the economic potential "smokeless" coal would have once the C&O Railway arrived. The plaque on the monument faces the ...

In 1893, the Kanawha & Michigan Railroad (K&M) completed a line between ... 261 coal mines were operating within a 60-mile radius of Charleston, West Virginia, located in the Kanawha and New River ...

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Tennessee and West Virginia. More than two-thirds of the facilities are power plants and most — more than 70% — burn coal to make electricity, while more than a third use natural gas. Several plants ...

Born Don Straughter in Beckley, West Virginia in 1937, he moved from the heart of coal country to Boston at age 17 to work ... Over the decades, Farrakhan tapped Muhammad to train ministers across the ...

State regulators pulled a permit for a surface mine tied to West Virginia Republican Sen. Jim Justice's family, citing a ...