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John W. Shelton (August 8, 1928 – April 1, 2014) was an American businessman and politician.. Born in Lockwood, West Virginia, Shelton was a businessman who owned Shelton Trucking Company and Mid-State Industrial Lubricates.
Southern States Cooperative is an American farmer-owned agricultural supply cooperative headquartered in the Richmond, Virginia area. Southern States Cooperative supplies small, medium, and large commercial farmers with livestock and animal feed, pasture seed, vegetable seed, farm fertilizers, farm supplies, bulk fuel, and crop services, including information and products to grow better crops.
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 American Viscose Plant Historic District is an industrial park and historic district located in Roanoke, Virginia.The site is the location of the former American Viscose Corporation rayon processing plant that once employed over 5,000 and for a time was reportedly the largest rayon producing mill in the world.
Sturgiss then sold the land and the factory to the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company in 1905. [9] Operating for more than a quarter of a century, the completion and operation of the mill greatly enhanced Morgantown's industrial capability and led to the construction of an electric street railway to ferry workers to and from work.
Map of the District of West Augusta and the three counties formed from it in 1776.. The District of West Augusta was a short-lived (1774–76) historical region of Colonial Virginia that encompassed much of what is now northern West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania.
Flowers and a bow mark the accident scene where Kyle Sease, a utility mechanic for New Jersey American Water Co., was fatally struck by a motorist on May 29.
From its earliest stages, selecting Arthurdale's homesteaders was a challenging process. Faculty members at nearby West Virginia University were given charge of picking the first round of homesteaders. They wanted at once to help people who desperately needed it, but they also wanted to select only people who would assure the success of the ...