Stonewall Jackson High School - Jacksonian Yearbook (Charleston, WV)

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.jcznaw an ua ey - Ifzelfz ana! Wow If Daniel Boone, Simon Kenton, or George Clendenin could return today, he would be surprised by what would confront him. . On a spot where once stood a rude log fcrt, he would find a budding metropolis. Instead of a few scattered farms and a salt well, founded at Malden in seventeen eighty-five, he would see a multi-million dollar chemicdlbusiness, plus innumerable smaller industries. Instead of a few roving Indians and the Morris brothers, the first settlers in the valley, he would discover a population of over two hundred thousand. Instead of a few British or American army officers, the only administrative power of a district which at that time was just a frontier of Virginia, he would perceive, housed in a magnificent capitol building, the machinery for one of the most progres- sive and democratic states pf America today. Instead of a rude log building, thirty by forty feet he would view a spacious stone courthouse. Instead of canoes and flatboats, he would glimpse modern diesel tugboats pushing coal barges up and down the river. Instead of the Kanawha and Iames River Turnpike, the only road then in the Kanawha Valley, he would espy a network of modern highways. I-Ie would also find bus lines and four railroads which carry passengers to and from our valley in ease. Since the seventeen hundreds our valley has progressed in every way. It has become the chemical center of the world. Even while this is being written, a new chemical plant is being constructed at Institute. During the last war, a plant was constructed at Institute for the making of synthetic rubber. Located in Kanawha City are two large glass plants, one making plate glass and the other making bottles. Near Sissonville are located oil wells, and along the Kanawha River gas springs are found. West Virginia is noted for its coal, and while the Kanawha Valley is not the center of the coal industry, nevertheless there are several mines located here. These are but a few of the valley's many industries, too numerous to list. Developing from its humble beginnings, the business of the valley has become one of the most healthy in the nation and its prospects for the future look better. This fact is witnessed by the rapidly increasing number of buildings which have recently been constructed. Not only in business, but also in civic accomplishments, has our valley prospered. The magnificent and breath-taking Kanawha County Airport, where once Simon Kenton camped, was built only after a mountain was moved. This airport has been declared one of the nation's and certainly West Virginia's finest. From the new, million-dollar terminal, which is one ol the most beautiful structures in the state, there are more than forty flights a day. In fact, the airport is third in passenger use in the nation, with a ratio of 96 passengers boarding per one hundred people. This figure is exceeded only by Atlanta and Miami. If one of our early pioneers could come back today and stand on a mountain over- looking the teeming Kanawha Valley and could see the millions of lights, the fine roads, and the beautiful buildings, he would feel that all the hardships and dangers he had endured had not been in vain.

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