Yes! Born & raised there!
Name comes from a WWI munitions plant built there. Originally the area was called Lock 7 - for the 7th lock on the Kanawha River. I was told it didn’t incorporate and get the name Nitro until 1948. My late great uncle drew up the incorporation papers and was the town’s first city attorney.
For the time one of the munitions plant was on the largest government sponsored projects to support the war. A teenage Clark Gable worked there.
http://www.historyofnitro.com/History/BeenHere/ClarkGable/clarkgable.html
To me its a wonderful place!
I have a question.
How do you pronounce 'Kanawha'.
I pronounce it Kan-A'-wha. Could be Kan-a-Wha'.
Just curious.
Was wonderful place you mean. They need to get rid of that city counsel but I guess that is everywhere. Don’t know if you’ve been following the news lately on Nitro but there has been trouble.