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North Bend State Park sits on 2,459 acres (995 ha) [2] along the North Fork of the Hughes River in Ritchie County near Harrisville, West Virginia.The park is named after the sharp bend in the river that the formed three sides of the original park boundary.
North Bend is an unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States. North Bend is located on state routes 39 and 55 , 4.5 miles (7.2 km) east of Richwood . References
The North Bend Rail Trail was built on one of the most distinguished railroad lines in U.S. history. [3] Chartered in 1851, the Northwestern Virginia Railroad built 103 miles from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) mainline at Grafton, West Virginia, to the Ohio River at Parkersburg, West Virginia.
The first West Virginia state park, Droop Mountain Battlefield, was acquired in 1928 and dedicated in 1929; and the newest state parks, Stonewall Jackson Lake and North Bend Rail Trail, were opened in 1990 and 1991, respectively.
The North Fork of the Hughes River in Cairo in 2006 The North Fork of the Hughes River as viewed from the North Bend Rail Trail east of Cairo in 2006. The Hughes River is a tributary of the Little Kanawha River in western West Virginia in the United States. Via the Little Kanawha and Ohio Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi ...
North Bend Lake is a 305 acres (123 ha; 0.477 sq mi) lake created through the Natural Resources Conservation Service via the Little Kanawha Conservation District. North Bend Lake, located within the North Bend State Park along the North Fork of the Hughes River in Ritchie County near Cairo, West Virginia, is 8.1 miles (13.0 km) in length, and has an average permanent pool width of 310 feet (94 m).
Coal miners from West Virginia – whom locals have lovingly dubbed the “West Virginia Boys” – moved a mountain in just three days to reopen a 2.7-mile stretch of Highway 64 between Bat Cave ...
North Bend State Park, West Virginia, US North Bend Township, Starke County, Indiana North Bend (Oscar, Louisiana) , listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Louisiana