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Ripley Historic District is a national historic district located at Ripley, Jackson County, West Virginia.It encompasses 110 contributing buildings, one contributing site (the Early Settlers Cemetery), and one contributing structure that include the commercial and civic core of the town, and surrounding residential buildings.
Oct. 4—BLUEFIELD — Southern West Virginia's peak of fall foliage has not arrived yet, but trees were changing already Wednesday as the West Virginia Department of Tourism celebrated autumn's ...
Staats Mill Covered Bridge, also known as Tug Fork Covered Bridge, is a historic wooden covered bridge near Ripley in Jackson County, West Virginia, United States.Built in 1887, the Staats Mill Covered Bridge originally crossed the Tug Fork of Big Mill Creek and was named for Enoch Staats' water-powered mill.
Ripley was originally owned and settled by William, John, and Lewis Rodgers. They received a grant of 400 acres (1.6 km 2 ) in 1768 where "Sycamore Creek joins Big Mill Creek" (the current site of Ripley).
This is a list of West Virginia covered bridges. There are 17 historic wooden covered bridges in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Only three of these bridges were built before 1870 and they are the three longest in the state. Each uses a standard truss design, braced with the Burr Arch. No one-truss design dominates in the state.
Frozen Camp Wildlife Management Area is located on 2,587 acres (1,047 ha) in Jackson County near Ripley, West Virginia. [2] The hilly terrain is mostly covered with second-growth mixed hardwoods , with some open creek bottoms and ridgetops.
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Mill Creek is a tributary of the Ohio River, 29.4 miles (47.3 km) long, [5] in western West Virginia in the United States.Via the Ohio, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 234 square miles (610 km 2) [6] on the unglaciated portion of the Allegheny Plateau.