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This project is a table of contents for all projects relating to this County of West Virginia. Please feel free to add profiles of anyone who was born, lived or died in this county. The county began taking formation on November 14, 1788, under the authorization of the Virginia General Assembly and was founded on October 5, 1789. The county was named for the Kanawha River, which in turn was nam...
Donel C. Kinnard Memorial State Veterans Cemetery is located in Dunbar, West Virginia. Find a Grave
Cunningham Memorial Park has been part of the Saint Albans, Kanawha County, West Virginia community since the early 1940s, serving families and tending to their loved ones who are laid to rest in this cemetery. Cunningham Memorial Park continue the legacy to help families with a compassionate touch during the emotionally challenging stages of life. Find a Grave Billion Graves
The Cobbs Cemetery is located just east of the fourth Green (or 5th Tee) of the Kanawha Country Club/Little Creek Golf Course in South Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia. Find a Grave
Located in Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia. Mountain View Memorial Park was originally known as the Bradford Addition of Springhill Cemetery. Interments began early in the 1900's. In 1956, Roy B. Sears purchased this portion from the City of Charleston and renamed it Mountain View Memorial Park. He established a perpetual care trust fund, administered by a local bank, to assure the c...
The park is located on 9619 East Dupont Avenue, London, Kanawha County, West Virginia. Find a Grave
Spring Hill Cemetery Park occupies 168 acres of a hilltop less than a mile from the heart of downtown Charleston, [Kanawha County]. Its name "Spring Hill" was chosen because of the large number of natural springs that dot its landscape. Officially established as the municipal cemetery in 1869 it is the final resting place for many of the prominent early settlers of Charleston and the Kanawha Va...
The University of Charleston (UC) is a private non-profit university with its main campus in Charleston, West Virginia. The university also has a location in Beckley, West Virginia, known as UC-Beckley. The school was founded in 1888 as the Barboursville Seminary of the Southern Methodist Church. In 1901, it was renamed Morris Harvey College, in honor of a devoted supporter. In 1935 the schoo...
The Battle of Charleston was an engagement on September 13, 1862, near Charleston in Kanawha County, Virginia (now West Virginia), during the Kanawha Valley Campaign of the American Civil War. It should not be confused with the Battle of Charleston (1861), which occurred a year earlier in Missouri. During the summer of 1862, General William W. Loring’s Department of Southwestern Virginia (Conf...