Chapter 2 The Regions of

WV

Review

WV Regions•Potomac Section

• Allegheny Highlands

•Allegheny Plateau

•Ohio River Valley

Potomac Section

Allegheny Highlands

Allegheny Plateau

Ohio River Valley

area bound by common

characteristics

region

Characteristics of regions• Climate

• economic opportunities

• land forms

• recreational opportunities

Slopes upward from the Valley of Virginia

to the Allegheny Highlands

Potomac Section.

Potomac Section Agriculture

•Livestock

•peach and apple orchards

region west of the Potomac Section

Allegheny

Highlands

one who moves into a new country to settle

there

immigrant

highest point in the state

Spruce Knob - 4,862 feet above sea level

Where you will find one-sided spruce

trees.Dolly Sods

Lowest point in the state

Harper’s Ferry

State nickname

The Mountain State

Where is the Forest Festival held each year?

Elkins

region west of the Allegheny Highlands

Allegheny Plateau

Allegheny Plateau

an elevated tract of more-or-less level land

plateau

What happened to the elevated level land?

Eroded into gorges and canyons

second oldest river in the world

New

worlds largest single arch steel span

New River Gorge Bridge - Fayette County

Where did Mad Ann Bailey ride her horse to escape the Indians?

Hawks Nest

White water rivers•Cheat

•Tygart

•New

•Gauley

Whitewater RaftersGauley RiverNicholas County

Plateau Natural Resources• Limestone

• sandstone

• shale

• coal

• oil

• natural gas

• salt

Important byproducts of natural resources• Saccharin

• Perfumes• Aspirin• Lysol• Vaseline• Vanillin• Dyes• Tires

• Gasoline• Benzene• Kerosene• Greases• Paraffins• Carbon black• Carbon paper• Inks

Italian City

Clarksburg

Italian HeritageFestival

ClarksburgHarrisonCounty

Indian meanings of Kanawha

"place of the

white stone"

"river of evil spirits"

location of the state Capitol Complex

Charleston

What is the name of the play about Chief Cornstalk’s

daughter?

The Aracoma Story

At Chief Logan State Park

stretches from the northern panhandle to the Big Sandy River

Ohio River Valley

Ohio River Cities

• Wellsburg

• Wheeling

• Sistersville

• St. Marys

• Williamstown

• Parkersburg

• Ravenswood

historic island in the Ohio River near

Parkersburg Blennerhassett

the crime of trying to overthrow the government of

one’s state orcountry

treason

Ohio River Industries•Steel

•Glass

•Textile

Weirton Steel

Location of Fenton Glass

Williamstown

Ohio River Valley

Festival of Lights

Oglebay

Park - Wheeling

Festival of LightsOglebay ParkOhio County

the seat of government for a

nation or state

capital

First Capitol Building

U.S. Custom House in Wheeling

Independence Hall

City like

Urban

Charleston

Charleston

Cattle and Sheep

Livestock

Health resort

Spa

Large city in Highlands

Beckley

Tamarack

Town developed by James Rumsey

Berkeley

Springs

Little Switzerland

Helvetia

Moves to a new country

immigrant

Elevated flat land

Plateau

Rugged - Mountainous

Allegheny

Highlands

Gorges and Canyons

Allegheny

Plateau

Eastern PanhandlePotomac

Section

Potomac Eagle

Potomac Section

Bridge Day

Allegheny Plateau

Hawks Nest

Allegheny Plateau

Apple Orchards

Potomac Section

Chemical industry

Allegheny Plateau

Blennerhassett Island

Ohio River Valley

Spruce Knob

Allegheny Highlands

Harper’s Ferry

Potomac Section

Festival of Lights

Festival of Lights – Oglebay ParkOhio County

Ohio River Valley

Blue Ridge Outlet Mall

Potomac Section

Berkeley Springs

Potomac Section

Seneca Rocks

Allegheny Highlands

White Water Rafting

Allegheny Plateau

State Capitol Complex

Allegheny Plateau

Sistersville Ferry

Ohio River Valley

Steel industry

Ohio River Valley

Snowshoe Ski Resort

Allegheny Highlands

The Trough

Potomac Section

Smoke Hole Caverns

Allegheny Highlands

New River Gorge

Allegheny Plateau

First Capital

Ohio River Valley

Forest Festival

Allegheny Highlands

Textile industry

Ohio River Valley

Helvetia

Allegheny Highlands

Dolly Sods

Allegheny Highlands

Lost World Caverns

Allegheny Highlands

Tourist Regions

List the Tourist Regions of WVEastern Panhandle

Potomac Highlands

Mountain lakes

Mountaineer Country

Northern Panhandle

Mid-Ohio Valley

Metro Valley

Hatfield-McCoy Mts.

New River-Greenbrier Valley

someone who travels away from home to another place and who

does not plan to stay permanently in the new location.

tourist

where the first European explorer first entered

West Virginia.

Harpers Ferry

Eastern Panhandle

the oldest town in West Virginia.

Shepherdstown

West Virginia’s first permanent settler

Morgan Morgan

Eastern Panhandle 

was originally called Bath

Berkeley Springs

Eastern Panhandle

First land battle of the Civil War

Philippi

Mountaineer Country

Home of WVU

Morgantown

Mountaineer Country

the oldest college in the state.

Bethany College

“gateway to the West”

Wheeling

Northern Panhandle

built by the early Woodland people

Grave Creek Mound

Northern Panhandle

one of the biggest “oil booms” in the eastern United States

Tyler County

Northern Panhandle

Oil and Gas Museum

Parkersburg

Mid-Ohio Valley

Visitors can take a ferry to this famous Island in the Ohio River.

Blennerhassett Island

The largest manufacture of handmade colored glass in the

U.S.

Fenton Glass

Mid-Ohio Valley

First battle of the American Revolotion

Battle of Point Pleasant

Mid-Ohio Valley

Developed along the C&O Railroad line

•Metro Valley

•Huntington

Capitol Complex

Charleston

Metro Valley

Coal was discovered

Peytona, Boone County

Hatfield-McCoy Mountains

The region takes its name from the infamous feud

Hatfield and McCoy

In this town, about one hundred years ago, as many as fourteen millionaires lived in a

two-block radius.

BramwellNew River/Greenbrier

Valley

Second oldest river in the world

New

West Virginia’s best known cave

Organ Cave

New River/Greenbrier Valley

Attracted thirty-three U.S. Presidents

The Greenbrier Resort

The city of Point Pleasant boasts a twelve-foot statue made of stainless steel with red eyes, which were made by Blenko

Glass.

Point Pleasant Mothman