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The house at Traveller's Rest, near Kearneysville, is West Virginia's sole plantation house designated as a National Historic Landmark for its national-level historical significance. As of 2015, the majority of West Virginia's plantation houses remain under private ownership.
The castle-like house was built for Colonel Samuel Taylor Suit of Washington, D.C. as a personal retreat near the spa town, beginning in 1885. It was not complete by the time of his death in 1888 and was finished in the early 1890s for his young widow, Rosa Pelham Suit, whom Suit had first met at Berkeley Springs, and their three children. [2]
Glade Springs is an unincorporated community consisting of a gated community and resort located just outside Beckley in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States. [1]The community was founded in 1973 and was originally marketed towards the "working rich" operators of independent coal mines in that area.
This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of West Virginia. List of West Virginia rivers includes streams formally designated as rivers. There are also smaller streams (i.e., branches, creeks, drains, forks, licks, runs, etc.) in the state. Exclusive of major tributaries, there are about 46 named rivers in West Virginia.
The Summit Bechtel Family National Scout Reserve is in southern West Virginia bordering the New River Gorge National River. Approximately 11,400 acres (46 km 2) of the property are in Fayette County. The remaining roughly 2,600 acres (11 km 2) are in Raleigh County.
Birch River (West Virginia) Black Fork (Cheat River tributary) Blackwater River (West Virginia) Blue Creek (West Virginia) Bluestone National Scenic River; Bluestone River; Boggs Run (Ohio River tributary) Bonds Creek; Bone Creek (West Virginia) Bosley Run; Brier Creek (Big Coal River tributary) Browns Run (Peters Run tributary) Bruffey Creek
Pipestem Resort State Park is a 4,050-acre (1,640 ha) [1] state park located in southern West Virginia, on the border between Mercer and Summers counties. The park was built with grants provided by the Area Redevelopment Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce under the administration of President John F. Kennedy. [3]
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