Kanawha

Kanawha may refer to:

Places

  • Kanawha, California, former town
  • Kanawha, Iowa, city
  • Kanawha County, West Virginia
  • Kanawha River in West Virginia
  • Kanawha River Valley AVA, West Virginia wine region
  • State of Kanawha, an early name for the state of West Virginia
  • Railroad

  • Kanawha, a type 2-8-4 railroad steam locomotive
  • Ships

  • Kanawha (1899), a steam yacht owned by Henry H. Rogers
  • USS Kanawha or USNS Kanawha has been the name of seven ships of the United States Navy
  • USS Kanawha II (SP-130), a yacht which served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919 and was renamed USS Piqua (SP-130) in 1918.
  • The United States Coast Guard Cutter Kanawha, a buoy tender in Pine Bluff, Arkansas
  • Other uses

  • Kanawha, a solar deity in Seneca mythology
  • Kanawha Valley people, an ancient indigenous people who lived in what is now West Virginia
  • Kanawha (Luray, Virginia)

    Kanawha, also known as Tuckahoe, is a historic home located at Luray, Page County, Virginia. It was built in 1921, and is a 2 1/2-story, Classical Revival style brick and tile-block dwelling on a poured-concrete foundation. It has a hipped roof covered with green Spanish tiles. The front facade features a semicircular Corinthian order portico. The house also has an enclosed Doric order rear portico, a porte-cochère, large hipped dormers, and a symmetrical composition. Also on the property are contributing gate pillars (c. 1923), an outbuilding (c. 1920), and weirs (Houn Spring) (c. 1881). The property was developed by Luray businessman and mayor Vernon H. Ford.

    It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

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    Kanawha (1899)

    Kanawha was a 471-ton steam-powered luxury yacht initially built in 1899 for millionaire industrialist and financier Henry Huttleston Rogers (1840–1909). One of the key men in the Standard Oil Trust, Rogers was one of the last of the robber barons of the Gilded Age in the United States. He was also a "secret" philanthropist.

    Rogers was a major developer of coal and railroad properties in West Virginia along the Kanawha River. Aboard the Kanawha, he frequently hosted his friends, including American humorist Mark Twain and black educator Booker T. Washington.

    After Rogers' death in 1909, the Kanawha served the U.S. Navy during World War I. After the war, it was sold to Marcus Garvey's ill-fated Black Star Line and renamed the S.S. Antonio Maceo. However, the former luxury yacht was apparently in poor condition by this time. A boiler, used to generate steam to drive the ship, exploded, and a crewman was killed, while the vessel was located off the Virginia coast on its first voyage from New York to Cuba.

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