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Welch - Brossura

Archer, William R.

 
9780738543048: Welch
Brossura
ISBN 10: 0738543047 ISBN 13: 9780738543048
Casa editrice: Arcadia Pub, 2006

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After the Civil War, Capt. Isaiah Welch, a Doddridge County, West Virginia, native, took a job as a surveyor with Maj. Jed Hotchkiss of Staunton, Virginia. Hotchkiss had served as Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson's mapmaker and charted Jackson's famous Valley Campaign, and Welch had been an officer of the 13th Battalion, Virginia Light Artillery. The war left Virginia's agrarian economy in ruins, and men like Hotchkiss and Welch worked to develop a new, industrial South. Welch surveyed the Pocahontas Coalfield in 1873, and a city named in his honor emerged in the heart of that great coalfield. Chartered on July 12, 1894, Welch has played a pivotal role in America's industrial revolution as a support system and supply house to the timber industry and as a coal industry hub. Throughout more than a century, Welch has served as a gateway for the raw materials and manpower that fueled the nation's quest for growth and power. The city has been constantly beset by the challenges of maintaining a civilization in West Virginia's steepest and most remote mountains, but after decades of being tested by nature, Welch is now on the verge of yet another renaissance.

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Book by William R Bill Archer

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Editore
Arcadia Pub
Data di pubblicazione
2006
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0738543047
ISBN 13 
9780738543048
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
127
Contatto del produttore
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