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Kanawha Coalfield
Kanawha may refer to: Places * Kanawha River in West Virginia, joining the Ohio River at Point Pleasant ** Kanawha Falls, a waterfall on the Kanawha River ** Kanawha Falls, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Fayette County near the waterfall ** Kanawha River Valley AVA, West Virginia wine region * Little Kanawha River in West Virginia, joining the Ohio River at Parkersburg ** Kanawha, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Wood County near Parkersburg * Kanawha County, West Virginia ** Kanawha County textbook controversy, a violent school control struggle beginning in 1974 * State of Kanawha, an early name for the state of West Virginia * Kanawha Canal, part of the James River and Kanawha Canal, a partially built canal in Richmond, VA * Kanawha (Luray, Virginia), a historic house * Kanawha, Iowa, city Railroad * Kanawha, a type 2-8-4 railroad steam locomotive Ships * ''Kanawha'' (1899), a steam yacht owned by Henry H. Rogers * USS ''Kanawha'' or USNS ''Kanaw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanawha River
The Kanawha River ( ) is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately 97 mi (156 km) long, in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The largest inland waterway in West Virginia, its valley has been a significant industrial region of the state since early in the 19th century. It is formed at the town of Gauley Bridge in northwestern Fayette County, approximately 35 mi (56 km) SE of Charleston, by the confluence of the New and Gauley rivers. It flows generally northwest, in a winding course on the unglaciated Allegheny Plateau, through Fayette, Kanawha, Putnam, and Mason counties, past the cities of Charleston and St. Albans, and numerous smaller communities. It joins the Ohio at Point Pleasant. Paleo-Indians, the earliest indigenous peoples, lived in the valley and the heights by 10,000 BC as evidenced by archaeological artifacts such as Clovis points. A succession of prehistoric cultures developed, with the Adena culture beginning the construction o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanawha, Iowa
Kanawha is a city in Hancock County, Iowa, United States. The population was 658 at the time of the 2020 census. History Kanawha was platted in 1899. The newly constructed railroad had arrived from Belmond, Iowa. Business' and some buildings moved from settlements three to four miles distant to establish in the new town on the railroad. Those settlements were Cuba, to the north, Magor, to the northwest, Mikesville, to the southwest, Aldrich, to the south (Drew, moved and renamed Bruce, was farther south), West Lake, to the east, and Bailey's Grove to the north east. Kanawha's founder, George Casper Call, petitioned Congressman J.P. Dolliver requesting a post office and proposing the name "Luzon". Luzon was rejected because it was thought to be too close to the name of an existing Iowa, Luzerne in Benton County. Faced with having to find another name, a railroad engineer and West Virginia native, suggested "Kanawha". The name met with approval. Geography Kanawha is located at ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seneca Mythology
Seneca mythology refers to the mythology of the Seneca people, one of the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy from the northeastern United States. Figures Some important figures in Seneca mythology are: * Eagentci, whose name translates as "ancient-bodied one", is the Earth-mother, or First Mother. Her Huron name is Atahensic. * Djieien was a man-sized spider who survived most attacks because its heart was buried underground. * Djodi'kwado' () was a horned serpent * Othegwenhda (Hiawatha) stabbed the heart under the Earth with a tree limb. * Dagwanoenyent is a vicious northern witch who is depicted as a whirlwind. Her child's father killed her. * Gaasyendietha is a fire-breathing dragon that inhabits Lake Ontario. * Hagondes is a cannibalistic trickster and clown spirit. * Kaakwha (also Kanawha) is the solar deity and god of light and truth, subordinate to Hawenniyo, a fertility god. * The Dahdahwat are animals who appear in dreams and visions. * Gagqa () is the crow spirit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Coast Guard Cutter
United States Coast Guard Cutter is the term used by the U.S. Coast Guard for its commissioned vessels. They are or greater in length and have a permanently assigned crew with accommodations aboard. They carry the ship prefix USCGC. History of the USCG cutters The Revenue Marine and the Revenue Cutter Service, as it was known variously throughout the late 18th and the 19th centuries, referred to its ships as cutters. The term is English in origin and refers to a specific type of vessel, namely, "a small, decked ship with one mast and bowsprit, with a gaff mainsail on a boom, a square yard and topsail, and two jibs or a jib and a staysail." With general usage, that term came to define any vessel of the United Kingdom's HM Customs and Excise and the term was adopted by the U.S. Treasury Department at the creation of what would become the Revenue Marine. Since that time, no matter what the vessel type, the service has referred to its vessels with permanently assigned cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Kanawha II (SP-130)
USS ''Kanawha II'' (SP-130)/USS ''Piqua'' (SP-130) was a yacht acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II. She was placed into service as an escort for Allied convoys traveling across the dangerous North Atlantic Ocean. German U-boats were active in sinking Allied ships, and ''Kanawha II'' (later renamed ''Piqua'') provided a valuable service as a lookout and in one instance attacked one and drove it off. Post-war she was returned to her pre-war owner in July 1919. Commissioning into the Navy USS ''Kanawha II'' was built as the yacht ''Kanawha'' by Gas Engine and Power Co. and Charles L. Seabury Co., Morris Heights, New York, in 1898. She was acquired by the U.S. Navy from her owner, John Borden, April 28, 1917, and commissioned the same day as USS ''Kanawha II'' (SP–130) under the command of lieutenant commander Henry D. Cooke. The Roman numeral II was used to avoid confusion with the Navy's replenishment oiler USS ''Kanawha'' (AO-1). World War I service During her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USNS Kanawha
USNS ''Kanawha'' (T-AO-196) is a ''Henry J. Kaiser''-class fleet replenishment oiler of the United States Navy in non-commissioned service in the Military Sealift Command. USNS ''Kanawha'', the tenth ''Henry J. Kaiser''-class ship, was laid down by the Avondale Shipyards in New Orleans, Louisiana, on 13 July 1989. She was launched on 22 September 1990 and delivered to the U.S. Navy and placed in non-commissioned service with the Military Sealift Command on 6 December 1991. ''Kanawha'' is in active service with the Military Sealift Command Naval Fleet Auxiliary Force and is assigned to the U.S. Atlantic Fleet. Design The ''Henry J. Kaiser''-class oilers were preceded by the shorter ''Cimarron''-class fleet replenishment oilers. ''Kanawha'' has an overall length of . It has a beam of and a draft of . The oiler has a displacement of at full load. It has a capacity of of aviation fuel or fuel oil. It can carry a dry load of and can refrigerate 128 pallets of food. The ship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Kanawha
Six ships of the United States Navy have been named USS ''Kanawha'' and one has been named USS ''Kanawha II'': * , a steamer that served from 1862 to 1865 * , a steamer that served in 1898 and was transferred to the U.S. Department of War in 1899 * , a replenishment oiler commissioned in 1915 and sunk 8 April 1943 * was purchased by the U.S. Navy in 1917 for use as a patrol vessel, but was found defective during fitting out and returned to her owner. * , an armed yacht that served in the U.S. Navy from 1917 to 1919 and was renamed USS ''Piqua'' (SP-130) in 1918 * , a gasoline tanker that served from 1944 to 1946 * , is a fleet oiler in service with the U.S. Military Sealift Command since 1991 {{DEFAULTSORT:Kanawha United States Navy ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanawha (1899)
''Kanawha'' was a 471-ton steam-powered luxury yacht initially built in 1899 for millionaire industrialist and financier Henry Huttleston Rogers (1840–1909). One of the key men in the Standard Oil Trust, Rogers was one of the last of the robber barons of the Gilded Age in the United States. Rogers was a major developer of coal and railroad properties in West Virginia along the Kanawha River. Aboard the ''Kanawha'', he frequently hosted his friends, including American humorist Mark Twain and black educator Booker T. Washington. After Rogers' death in 1909, the ''Kanawha'' served the U.S. Navy during World War I. After the war, it was sold to Marcus Garvey's ill-fated Black Star Line and renamed the S.S. ''Antonio Maceo''. However, the former luxury yacht was apparently in poor condition by this time. A boiler, used to generate steam to drive the ship, exploded, and a crewman was killed, while the vessel was located off the Virginia coast on its first voyage from New Yor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2-8-4
Under the Whyte notation, a 2-8-4 is a steam locomotive that has two unpowered leading wheels, followed by eight coupled and powered driving wheels, and four trailing wheels. This locomotive type is most often referred to as a Berkshire, though the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway used the name Kanawha for their 2-8-4s. In Europe, this wheel arrangement was mostly seen in mainline passenger express locomotives and, in certain countries, in tank locomotives. Overview In the United States of America, the 2-8-4 wheel arrangement was a further development of the enormously successful 2-8-2 Mikado. It resulted from the requirement for a freight locomotive with even greater steam heating capacity. To produce more steam, a solution was to increase the size of the locomotive's firebox, though the 2-8-2 wheel arrangement, with its single axle trailing truck, limited the permissible increased axle loading from a larger firebox. The most practical solution was to add a second trailing axle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanawha (Luray, Virginia)
Kanawha, also known as Tuckahoe, is a historic home located at Luray, Page County, Virginia. It was built in 1921, and is a -story, Classical Revival style brick and tile-block dwelling on a poured-concrete foundation. It has a hipped roof covered with green Spanish tiles. The front facade features a semicircular Corinthian order portico. The house also has an enclosed Doric order rear portico, a porte-cochère, large hipped dormers, and a symmetrical composition. Also on the property are contributing gate pillars (c. 1923), an outbuilding (c. 1920), and weirs (Houn Spring) (c. 1881). The property was developed by Luray businessman and mayor Vernon H. Ford. an''Accompanying photo''/ref> It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanawha Falls
Kanawha Falls is a waterfall on the Kanawha River in West Virginia that has been a barrier to fish movement for more than 1 million years. The waterfall is formed by a diagonal sandstone ledge across the river about downstream from the confluence of the New and Gauley rivers. It is high. A low concrete overflow dam built in 1920 along the crest of the falls directs part of the flow to an electric generating plant on the western (right) bank of the river at the community of Glen Ferris. The plant was rehabilitated beginning in 2010 and fully returned to operation in 2012. The community of Gauley Bridge is upstream from Glen Ferris along U.S. Route 60. On the eastern (left) bank, a community named Kanawha Falls is about downstream. Kanawha Falls is the upstream limit of several fish species that broadly inhabit the Ohio River watershed. Above the waterfall, the watershed has fewer fish species overall, a relatively high number of species found nowhere else in the world, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James River And Kanawha Canal
The James River and Kanawha Canal was a partially built canal in Virginia intended to facilitate shipments of passengers and freight by water between the western counties of Virginia and the coast. Ultimately its towpath became the roadbed for a rail line following the same course. Encouraged by George Washington, the canal project was begun in 1785 as the James River Company, and later restarted under the James River and Kanawha Canal Company. It was an expensive project which failed several times financially and was frequently damaged by floods. Though largely financed by the Commonwealth of Virginia through the Virginia Board of Public Works, it was only half completed by 1851, reaching Buchanan, in Botetourt County. When work to extend it further west stopped permanently, railroads were overtaking the canal as a far more productive mode of transportation. After the American Civil War funds for resuming construction were unavailable from either the war-torn Commonwealth or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
