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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.
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.
The Justice family, headed by patriarch Jim Justice, has extensive farm and mining [23] operations in West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. It farms 50,000 acres (200 km 2) through its Justice Family Farms group, headquartered in Beckley, West Virginia.
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
Mountaineer Casino Resort is a thoroughbred racetrack and casino resort located on the Ohio River north of New Cumberland, West Virginia. It is owned by Vici Properties and operated by Century Casinos. It is notable for being the first race track in the United States to get slot machines and become a racino.
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 ...
On November 18, 2009, the BSA announced that it had chosen the West Virginia site, known locally as the Garden Ground Mountain property, as the future home of the Summit Bechtel Reserve. [13] One of the deciding factors for Project Arrow in choosing the West Virginia site was its adjacency to New River Gorge National River.
Canoe Country Outfitters was formed in 1946 in Ely, Minnesota, to provide canoe trip outfitting services for Quetico Provincial Park and Superior National Forest and what was to become Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW). Bill Rom started the business and then sold it to Bob Olson Sr. (who had already worked there for 25 years) in 1975.