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However, officials have not yet worked out a deal with the owner, Western Pocahontas Properties, a West Virginia company. Short said the company rebuffed a request to donate land.
The flooding last July destroyed or damaged thousands of homes and left many people without good housing options. Donations of land, $4 million boosts efforts to build houses for Eastern Ky. flood ...
The project would include buying more than 100 acres adjacent to 22 acres donated earlier to the Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky.
The trail ascends Backbone Mountain along an old logging road on Monongahela National Forest property to the West Virginia-Maryland state line. The distance is about one mile each way. The trail then heads north along the state line to the high point. Hoye-Crest sits on private property (Western Pocahontas Properties), though access is permitted.
Pocahontas Coalfield, which is also known as the Flat Top-Pocahontas Coalfield, is located in Mercer County/McDowell County, West Virginia and Tazewell County, Virginia. [1] The earliest mining of coal in the coalfield was in Pocahontas, Virginia in 1883 [ 2 ] at Pocahontas Mine No. 1 , now on the National Register of Historic Places .
Richard Beard House is a historic home located near Hillsboro, Pocahontas County, West Virginia. It was built about 1890, and is a two-story Queen Anne style frame dwelling. The house has a side facing T-plan. The front facade features a one-story front porch running one half the width of the house and a three-sided, hip roof bay.
The land is owned by a private company but the county government says it is needed for a public purpose and voted to sue to get it if needed.
Kimball, who had a strong interest in geology, led the railroad's efforts to open the Pocahontas coalfields in western Virginia and southern West Virginia. In mid-1881, the N&W acquired the franchises to four other lines: the New River Railroad , Mining and Manufacturing Company, the Bluestone Railroad, and the East River Railroad.