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The National Electronics Museum was created by Westinghouse employees. Robert L. Dwight, who worked for the Westinghouse Defense and Electronics Systems Center located in Baltimore, Maryland, jump-started the current collection in 1973 by conducting a "Family Day" to display his colleagues' work while involving their families.
St. Paul, Virginia is a town located in the Appalachian Mountains along the Clinch River. It began as a French Huguenot settlement overlooking the river in 1791, during the Cherokee-American wars . Since the creation of WIse County in 1858, it has been located partially in Wise and partly in the older Russell County .
Jonesville Drug, one of the oldest surviving downtown businesses, relocated to the old Chappell's Dairy site on the west end in 2004. Jonesville is the birthplace of Andrew Taylor Still, MD, DO (August 6, 1828 – December 12, 1917).
Generally, areas in Virginia located west of, or (in many cases) within, the piedmont region are considered part of western Virginia. The United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia covers most of the state's land area, and includes most cities and counties in central and southern Virginia .
Kirby, Main, and Lee Sts. from 1st through 13th Sts., West Point, Virginia Coordinates 37°31′55″N 76°47′50″W / 37.53194°N 76.79722°W / 37.53194; -76
Rocket Center, West Virginia is the site of a government installation known as Allegany Ballistics Laboratory, part of the Naval Sea Systems Command which is currently operated by Northrop Grumman. Rocket Center shares a ZIP Code with Keyser but is located 15 miles (24 km) north along the North Branch Potomac River in Mineral County , West ...
In Southern West Virginia, in the late 19th century, coal mining and transportation by the emerging technology of the railroads combined to form a new industry. Much of the region's bituminous coal was sent northwest to the Great Lakes, or northeast to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's coal piers at Baltimore, or to the world's greatest ice-free port of Hampton Roads in eastern Virginia.
Parkersburg is a city in and the county seat of Wood County, West Virginia, United States. [5] Located at the confluence of the Ohio and Little Kanawha rivers, it is the state's fourth-most populous city and the center of the Parkersburg–Vienna metropolitan area.