Upriver.

The Kanawha, 1941 Had Rukeyser followed the Kanawha from Hawk's Nest, past the furnaces at Alloy, eventually the river would have delivered her to the chemical works Carbide built at South Charleston. FEATURES [Petrochemicals] began as many American industries have begun, almost by chance, in scattered places, in many winding rivulets of enterprise before it became a river running imperatively to the sea. Dow, which had already acquired Carbide, will merge with DuPont, all assets, liabilities, and environmental legacies flowing together like the Kanawha into the Ohio into the Mississippi and beyond. ElectroMet's parent: the Union Carbide and Carbon Company (later Union Carbide or Carbide for short). [Extracted from the article]