Institute, West Virginia
[1] Interstate 64 and West Virginia Route 25 pass by the community, which has grown to intermingle with nearby Dunbar.Its economy includes several major industrial plants, which have had a number of environmental incidents polluting the local community.[2] In August 2008 a chemical plant explosion here killed two and injured eight at the Bayer CropScience facility.In the late 19th century, the Smithsonian Institution inventoried an Adena-era complex along the Kanawha River that had more than 50 earthwork mounds and ten enclosures.She bequeathed land to her children that became Institute and later the West Virginia State University.
Unincorporated communityCountryWest VirginiaCountyKanawhaTime zoneEastern (EST)Kanawha RiverKanawha CountyInterstate 64West Virginia Route 25DunbarWest Virginia State UniversitytoponymWest Virginia State Police AcademyBayer CropScienceprehistoricearthwork moundsenclosuresSmithsonian InstitutionGerard FowkeEast HallCanty HouseNational Register of Historic PlacesHoward H. RaileyNational Park ServiceKanawha County, West VirginiaCounty seatCharlestonCitiesMarmetMontgomerySt. AlbansSmithersSouth CharlestonCedar GroveChesapeakeClendeninEast BankGlasgowHandleyAlum CreekBig ChimneyChelyanCoal ForkCross LanesDupont CityElkviewEskdaleHansfordHollygroveJeffersonMaldenShrewsburySissonvilleTornadoWest DunbarOthercommunitiesAaronsAmandavilleAmeliaAnnfredBarren CreekBlackhawkBlakeleyBlountBlue CreekBlundonBrounlandBurnwellCabin CreekCarbonCarneyCoalburgCoalridgeCopenhaverCortonCrown HillDavis CreekDecotaDiamondDickinsonDonwoodDry BranchDungriffEast NitroEast SideEdgewoodElk ForestElk HillsEmmonsEtowahFalling RockFerrellFivemileForest HillsForks of CoalFort HillFuquayGallagherGreen ValleyGreencastleGrippeGuthrieHeathermanHernshawHicumbottomHighlawnHillsdaleHollyhurstHughestonIndianIsland BranchIvydaleJarrettJarretts FordJoplinKayfordKelly HillKendaliaLeewoodLincolnLivingstonLondonLoudendaleLower Belle