Kanawha
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Kanawha may refer to:
Several places in the United States:
Ships
Kanawha may also refer to:
Several places in the United States:
- Kanawha, CaliforniaKanawha, CaliforniaKanawha is a former settlement in Glenn County, California. It was located west of Willows.A post office operated at Kanawha from 1871 to 1879....
, former town - Kanawha, IowaKanawha, IowaKanawha is a city in Hancock County, Iowa, United States. The population was 739 at the 2000 census.-History:The City of Kanawha celebrated founders day on July 22, 1899. The newly constructed railroad had arrived from Belmond, Iowa. Business' and some buildings moved from settlements three to four...
, city - Kanawha County, West VirginiaKanawha County, West VirginiaAs of the census of 2000, there were 200,073 people, 86,226 households, and 55,960 families residing in the county. The population density was 222 people per square mile . There were 93,788 housing units at an average density of 104 per square mile...
- Kanawha RiverKanawha RiverThe Kanawha River is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately 97 mi long, in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The largest inland waterway in West Virginia, it has formed a significant industrial region of the state since the middle of the 19th century.It is formed at the town of Gauley...
in West Virginia- Kanawha River Valley AVAKanawha River Valley AVAThe Kanawha River Valley AVA is an American Viticultural Area located in the watershed of the Kanawha River in West Virginia, between the city of Charleston and the Ohio border. The wine appellation includes in portions of Cabell, Jackson, Kanawha, Mason, and Putnam counties. A portion of the...
, West Virginia wine region
- Kanawha River Valley AVA
- State of KanawhaState of KanawhaKanawha was a proposed name for what later became the U.S. state of West Virginia, formed on October 24, 1861. It consisted of most of the northwestern counties of Virginia, which decided to secede from Virginia after Virginia joined the Confederate States of America on April 17, 1861 at the...
, an early name for the state of West Virginia
Ships
- USS KanawhaUSS KanawhaSix ships of the United States Navy have been naamed USS Kanawha and one has been named USS Kanawha II:, a steamer that served from 1862 to 1865, a steamer that served in 1898 and was transferred to the U.S. Department of War in 1899...
or USNS Kanawha has been the name of seven ships of the United States Navy - USS Kanawha II (SP-130)USS Kanawha II (SP-130)USS Kanawha II -- later renamed USS Piqua -- was a yacht acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War I. She was placed into service as an escort for Allied convoys traveling across the dangerous North Atlantic Ocean...
, 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 CutterUnited States Coast Guard CutterCutter is the term used by the United States Coast Guard for its commissioned vessels. A Cutter is or greater in length, has a permanently assigned crew, and has accommodations for the crew to live aboard...
Kanawha, a buoy tender in Pine Bluff, Arkansas - Kanawha (1899)Kanawha (1899)Kanawha was a 471-ton steam-powered luxury yacht initially built in 1899 for millionaire industrialist and financier Henry Huttleston Rogers . 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...
, a steam yacht owned by Henry H. Rogers
Kanawha may also refer to:
- Kanawha, a type 2-8-42-8-4In the Whyte notation, a 2-8-4 is a railroad steam locomotive that has one unpowered leading axle followed by four powered driving axles and two unpowered trailing axles. This locomotive type is most often referred to as a Berkshire, though the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway used the name Kanawha for...
railroad steam locomotive - Kanawha, a solar deity in Seneca mythologySeneca mythologyThe Seneca tribe was is one of the six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy from the northeastern United States. Some important figures in Seneca Mythology were:*Eagentci, whose name translates as "ancient-bodied one" is the Earth-mother, or First Mother....