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In May 2000, West Virginia Governor Cecil Underwood purchased 25 acres (100,000 m 2) of Blackwater Canyon for $50,000 an acre and added it to Blackwater Falls State Park. Allegheny Wood Products , the timber company that owns about half of the Blackwater Canyon today, donated an additional 100 acres (0.40 km 2 ).
The Blackwater River is a 34.3-mile-long (55.2 km) river [4] in the Allegheny Mountains of eastern West Virginia, USA. Via the Black Fork , it is a principal tributary of the Cheat River . Via the Cheat, the Monongahela and the Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River and drains an area of 142 square miles (370 km 2 ).
Initially developed as a state forest in 1926. One of West Virginia's first CCC camps was established here in 1933. The largest of West Virginia's state parks, it contains the 11-acre (4 ha) Watoga Lake. A historic district containing the park's 103 CCC resources is listed on the NRHP. [124] [196] [198] [199] Watters Smith Memorial
Blackwater Falls. Blennerhassett Island. Bluestone. Cacapon Resort. Camp Creek. Canaan Valley Resort. Carnifex Ferry. ... West Virginia state parks map with 37 ...
Blackwater Falls 57 to 63 ft (17 to 19 m) 39°06′50″N 79°29′00″W / 39.113889°N 79.483333°W / 39.113889; -79.483333 ( Blackwater Falls (Tucker County, West Virginia
Canaan Valley (locally / k ə ˈ n eɪ n /) is a large bathtub-shaped upland valley in northeastern Tucker County, West Virginia, USA.Within it are extensive wetlands and the headwaters of the Blackwater River which spills out of the valley at Blackwater Falls.
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The Elakala Falls are a series of four waterfalls of Shays Run [1] as it descends into the Blackwater Canyon in West Virginia.They are within Blackwater Falls State Park [3] and are quite popular among photographers, with the ease of access for the first waterfall, and the relatively low traffic of the other waterfalls in the series.