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A tourist guide to West Virginia

1. Introduction

West Virginia, and endless forested state known as "Mountain" offers breathtaking landscapes, places of interest related to natural resources, and throughout the year, outdoor activities.

Once rich in coal and wood, is formed by the mines and railways is extracted from the record, but when mining began decades to exhaust products, materials, green carpeted mountains gave secondary products, namely hiking, biking, fishing, rafting, climbing, and tourists hunters and sportsmen. Your New River Gorge, which offers many similar activities, is equally beautiful with its steep banks and the surface azure, while the main city of Charleston, revitalized during the 1970s and 1980s, now museums, art, shops, restaurants and world class entertainment.

2. Charleston

Located in the Kanawha River, sports, and a street grid is subdivided readily marketable in Capitol Complex and downtown east of historic ties of the two.

The old stands, which is the heart of state government, the ubiquitous seen, placing the golden dome of the Capitol. Built of Indiana limestone and buff 4640 tons of steel, which requires the temporary placement of a railway line for transportation, the building had been put in place in three phases over a period of eight years from 1924 to 1925 the west wing from 1926 to 1927 for the east wing, and from 1930 to 1932 the connection roundabout. It was officially opened by Governor William G. Conley June 20, 1932, to mark the 69th anniversary of West Virginia statehood.

Its gold dome, extending five feet higher than the Capitol Washington, the gold leaf of 23-carat gold and a half, applied between 1988 and 1991 by small squares to cover the surface of copper and lead differently.

Two-thirds of its interior, which covers 535,000 square meters divided in 333 rooms, is composed of travertine Italian derby imperial and Tennessee marble, and the chandelier in the rotunda, its centerpiece, is 10 180 pieces of Czech crystal illuminated by 96 light bulbs. weighing 4,000 pounds, which hangs from a 54-foot bronze and a bronze chain.

In front of State Capitol, but within the complex, is the cultural center West Virginia. Opened in 1976 and is operated by the Division of West Virginia Culture and History, has been created to the artistic heritage of the state, culture and history, and houses the State Museum of Western Virginia, archives and library history, a shop and a place for cultural events, performances and related programs.

The first, a collection of elements which represents the state land, people and culture, is divided into 24 scenes covering five major periods: Prehistory (3 million years BC to 1650 AD), Frontera (1754-1860), civil war and the 35th State (1861-1899), industrialization (1900-1945), and change and tradition (1954 to the 21st century). The 24 performances will trace the evolution of the state and include words such as "coal forests", "Llanos del Río", "Wilderness" El Fuerte "," Harper's Ferry, "The construction of the rails," Mine coal "," Main Street West Virginia, "and" New River Gorge. "

Thirteen memorials and statues in honor West Virginia for their contribution to the nation state and the grace of the Capitol Complex in beautiful gardens.

Culture can also be experienced at the Center clay for the arts and sciences, a modern, 240,000 square foot complex of three levels which opened July 12, 2003, and represents one of the most ambitious economic, cultural and educational projects in the history of West Virginia. With science, visual arts, performing arts under one roof, the center boasts two levels Avampato Discovery Museum interactive experience focused on youth with sections such as health Royale Area Youth City of Earth's plant and Gizmo. At 9,000 square feet Art Gallery, located on the second floor has two permanent exhibitions and temporary, the latter focusing on the art of the 19th and 20th centuries with names such as Andy Warhol, Stuart Davis, Alexander Calder, Frank Stella, Living Frey, Albert Paley y. ElectricSky Theater a planetarium dome 61 meters, with shows by day and widescreen presentations on astronomy. Live performances take place in two locations: the 1883-seat Maier Foundation Performance Hall, which houses the West Virginia Symphony, but also offers a variety of types of performance, comedy folk singers, bands, repertoire and plays on Broadway, and the 200-seat Walker Theater, which offers plays and dance style seating for cabaret songwriter Woody Hawley program. Douglas V. Reynolds Intermezzo Cafe and three classrooms are located on the ground floor.

Shopping can be done in two places. Charleston Town Center Mall, located near the downtown Marriott Hotel and Embassy Suites, and close to Civic Center is one foot one million miles squares, the complex three levels with over 130 stores, three anchor stores, six full service restaurants and a food court with ten fast food sites additional, and is accessible via three parking. Sporting a three-story atrium and a fountain, the sophisticated, Kanawha Valley was the largest complex urban East Mall of the Mississippi River when it opened in 1983.

Capitol Market, located at Congress and Sixth Street and restored Transform, 1800 Kanawha and Michigan Railroad Depot, is divided into domestic and foreign markets, the last can not be used by farmers in good faith and received every day, fresh, seasonal supplies generally consist of flowers, shrubs and trees in spring, fruit and summer vegetables, squash, pumpkins, and cornstalks in the fall and Christmas trees, wreaths and garlands in winter. Market sells seafood, cheeses and wines, and offers several food stands and a small full service Italian restaurant.

An afternoon can be spent the triple Hippodrome and Gaming Center. Located 15 minutes drive from Charleston, Cross Lanes, the site offers 90,000 square feet of gaming, which includes more than 1,300 machines slot, live racing, a lounge poker, blackjack, roulette and craps, and four restaurants: The French Quarter Restaurant and Bar Restaurant first round Cafe Orleans, and Crescent City Red. Being close to the Mardi Gras-style hotel was completed in 2010.

3. Potomac Highlands

Potomac Highlands, located in the eastern part of the Allegheny Plateau State is a tapestry of various geographic regions and covers eight departments. Alternative called the "Mountain Highlands, which had formed about 250 million years in a collision of North America and the African continent has been a single mass, in the air. Submitted millennia of wind and water caused by erosion, causing successive peaks and valleys parallel, and today the area includes two national forests: Canaan Valley, the highest in the east of the Mississippi River, and Spruce Knob, at 4861 feet, highest point in West Virginia. Its green hills covered with wood shed in abundance railways registration requirements for harnesses, two major ski resorts, and a host of outdoor sports and activities.

Potomac Highlands can be divided in the Tygart Valley, Seneca Rocks, Canaan Valley, and Big Mountain country.

Tygart Valley A.

The City of Elkins, located in the Tygart Valley, is transportation, malls and social center of the central Appalachian Mountains of eastern and serves as base for excursions Potomac Highlands.

Founded in 1890 by Henry Gassaway Davis Senator and Stephen. B. Elkins, son, brother and business partner, originally as a shipping center for coal, wood, and the empire of railroads, the latter the result of self-financed construction of the railway station in West Virginia, whose track extended Cumberland, Maryland, and Elkins, and served as the threshold to some of the richest in the world of timber and minerals.

The people responding to the needs miners, loggers and railroad workers, central stores sprouted maintaining and expanding steadily, reaching a peak in 1920, before starting a decline caused by the depletion of resources, until the last train, transport of coal and derivatives for the rest of the country, split the hull in 1959.

The tracks were sterile and used for nearly half a century, until 2007, when the new Durbin Greenbrier Valley Railroad and rose, and the city-transportation purposes resparking prime tourist scenic-ride and a cycle of slow growth with a restaurant built over late and live theater in the historic railway terminal and other nearby hotels in Elkins. Ranked as one of the best cities Art of the small country is once again the mountain Highland Service Center back to its original goal of providing hotel, restaurant, shop and entertainment services, but now a new group of tourists.

The railway continues to be home. Greenbrier Valley Railroad Durbin and offer three departures terminal Elkins. First of them, the New Tygart Flyer "is a race of four hours back 46-mile tunnel which enters the cheat Mountain, passing the cities of Bowdon, and Bemis, parallel the Shavers Fork of Cheat River, stopping in Horseshoe Falls high towers, in which he served a road, a lunch buffet. service table update is available in 1922, the Pullman Palace Car Luxury ear for a slightly higher price.

The Cheat Mountain Salamander is one of nine hours, 128 miles round trip to Spruce, and includes a buffet lunch and dinner, while "Mountain Express Train flavors "imitates the New Tygart Flyer road, but it has a menu with four dishes in a formal dining car.

Railyard Restaurant, located between the tank and Theatre Elkins Mountain America offers meals while on board. Emulating the hull itself to the construction of exterior brick, 2500000 dollar restaurant, 220 seats, leased to the Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad, served family style at its main plant and fancy dinners in his second Vista Dome dining room, menus, dishes inspired by railroad car from the 1920s to 1940. He toted the slogan, Opening: "Take the Road room with exceptional taste. "

The Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad Rails and Trails Gift Store on your main level.

Continued the historic facade of red brick, the neighboring mountain of America Theatre, founded in 2003 by Elkins native and RCA artist, Susie Heckel, finds origin in a variety show performed for tourists in a different place. But the growing demand for well-deserved November 2006, braking soil structure 1,700,000 $ 12,784 square meters, 525 seats, with the help of his sister, Beverly Sexton and her husband, Kenny, who owns the Ozark Mountain Hoe-Down Theater in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

Open the following July, the theater provides family entertainment Branson style a team of nine members, with Kenny Sexton serving as its president and producer of Beverly write the score. Two hours of comedy in the night, the prints and country, gospel, bluegrass and pop music.

Davis and Elkins College, located a few blocks from the railway station railway history, the actions of the founders even that the people themselves Elkins, ie, Henry Gassaway Davis senators and Stephen B. Elkins. Created in 1901 when he donated land and funding to create a university associated with the Presbyterian Church, which was originally located south of the city. Its first board of directors convened the following year and classes are held for the first time September 21, 1904.

Today, mixed schools, liberal arts, located on a campus of 170 acres of rolling hills, wooded with mountain views Appalachians consists of 22 new and historic buildings in two parts: the north, extending to sports fields and to the campus, which is on a ridge overlooking Elkins. Thirty members and a bachelor of arts, science, diploma programs pre-professional and vocational education are offered on a basis of 700 students.

One of its historic buildings Graceland Inn. Designed by the architectural firm Baldwin Baltimore and Pennington, the house resembles a castle of Queen Anne style, originally located in a farm of 360 acres, was completed 1893. Originally called "Moro Mingo, and intermittently" Mingo Hall "after the area south of Elkins, the field has been the summer residence Senator Davis, who regularly train carrying an invited friends and associates in July and August so they can escape Heat Washington and enjoy greater Elkins altitude, cooler temperatures.

The farm became known as the ultimate "Graceland" After Davis's youngest daughter, Grace. After the death of his wife in 1902, following the conduct of business within the office, while Grace resided there during the summer months with his family.

The property was eventually transferred to their own children, Ellen Bruce Lee and John A. Kennedy, his two previous owners.

Acquired by the Presbyterian Church Education Trust West Virginia in 1941, was used as a residence of males by the Council until 1970, then was closed. restored in the mid-1990s, it was then reopened as a historic country inn and as a dynamic learning laboratory for students of hospitality.

Overlooking the city of Elkins, on the campus of Davis and Elkins College Inn Graceland, included in the National Register of Historic Places site, has a two-story great room, richly decorated with precious wood such as oak during the quarter, the bird's eye maple, cherry and walnut, a grand staircase, lounge, library and original stained glass windows. The Mingo Room Restaurant, which reflects the initial identification of the hotel and open to the public, is divided into four small rooms lined with red oak fireplaces and an outdoor terrace and eleven rooms, located on the second and third floors and the names of members the prominent family, contains antiques, reproduction Victorian turrets, canopy beds, sleigh beds, wardrobes, bathrooms and marble baths feet.

Graceland Inn, David and Elkins College, Elkins City itself, the historical depot and rail terminal, their traces, and the Appalachian coal and forest resources are inextricably linked to her – and the city the past to the future.

B. Seneca Rocks

"Seneca Rocks" refers to both a region of the Potomac Highlands region of outcrops, after which it is called.

Like a knife, Shark's fin or, and is located at the confluence of Seneca Creek and North Fork of the South Branch Potomac River, 250 feet deep, 900 meters High Seneca Rocks, with access from Route 28 in West Virginia, formed 400 million years ago during the previous Silurian a sandbar off on the edge of the old Iapetus. As the sea is smaller, the rock, raised and folded, ultimately, lead to further erosion of its upper surface and out of the arc and folds that the exposure profile stiff today.

Done in white and gray quartz Tuscarora, training has a peak north and south, with an indentation between the two.

The current Seneca Rocks Discovery Center, which replaced the center of origin, has models with the local terrain, films, interpretive programs, and a bookstore.

A road leads to the farm sites, some of the center. Built in 1839 by William sites as a bedroom cottage Ridge Seneca Rocks, is typical of houses Appalachians then German listed square Documents Blockbau style and groove corner joints V separated by cracks of the stone and clay. Its small casement windows are also of German origin, while his "salon and" plant reflects the English style. the location of the home has specified the location of the house: Northern style includes the housing of prisoners style houses and modern was outside.

In the late 1860s, one child "Sites" enlarged the house, adding a second floor, then use it as a barn, the Forest Service bought in 1969, its restoration during 1980. In 1993, was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

Largest Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area, offering significant opportunities for outdoor sports, contains a key element of the Chesapeake Bay basin, with mountains and forests to collect water that then flows the Potomac River and the bay. Acting as a mechanism for filtering and cleaning the forests header to purify water before it reaches streams. Spruce Knob is at once the highest point in the watershed of the Chesapeake Bay and the entire state of West Virginia.

Apart from providing water, the region has provided food for humans, who were the first Native Americans lived in villages in the mountains, and have established agricultural settlements and logging camps, mining resources and support for life about 13,000 years. Today it has 15 million people.

The Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area is itself part of the largest National Forest Monongahela. Founded in 1920 with an initial 7200 hectares, the forest has 910.155 acres contains the source of the Monongahela, Potomac, Greenbrier, Elk, Tygart, and the Gauley River, five appointed by the federal government "Deserts" Dolly Sods, extra Creek, Laurel Fork North, Laurel Fork South, and cranberries, which very remote and primitive brands may offer a lower path, and four lakes.

A Mecca for lovers of outdoor sports, the forest of 169 hiking, mountain biking equestrian and covering over 800 miles, 576 miles from trout streams, 129 miles of warm water fishing, 23 campsites, 17 picnic areas, and wildlife, black bear, wild turkey, deer, gray fox, rabbit, hare, partridge, and woodcock.

C. Canaan Valley

Largetooth covered, balsam fir and spruce, Canaan Valley, which stretches 14 miles, is the most upper valley and east of the Mississippi, the mountain of the same name which separates the Blackwater River and building a deep, narrow canyon on the shelf Allegheny.

The area includes two pristinely beautiful state parks, Canaan Valley Resort and Black Falls State Park, two ski areas in New Canaan Valley Resort and Timberline Four Seasons Resort and 500th Sanctuary nation.

Natural sports abound: hiking, horseback riding, fishing, golf, swimming, rafting, and interpretation of the nature walk in summer and skiing snowboarding, and tubing in winter.

Heart of most of this is 6.000 acre Canaan Valley State Park Resort, which covers 18 miles of trails, wetlands, grasslands, deciduous forests of northern wildlife, 200 species of birds and 600 types of wildflowers.

Canaan Valley Resort, located in the Park has 250 modern rooms, 23 two, three, four cottages room with fireplace and kitchen complete, 34 paved campsites, wooded, full connection, and six restaurants and lounges, including the Council of Hickory dinner in the main house.

Its 4280 meters high mountain, whose longest run is 1.25 miles and with a vertical drop of 850 feet, one of four triple and two lifts and 11 trails night skiing. Winter activities such as the extension of the Canaan Valley, skiing, snowboarding, Airboard, tubing, snowshoeing and ice skating, while summer programs that include scenic chairlift rides, horseback tours, golf, tennis and hiking.

D. Mountain Big Country

Mountain Grand County, the location of the second peak Top of West Virginia, was the birthplace of eight rivers Greenbie, Gauley, tips, Cherry, Elk, Williams, blueberry and Tygart, while his Seneca State Forest, which borders the former county of Pocahontas, is the oldest in the state. An interesting array of attractions include the cutting of railway steam, astronomical preserved cities, a class of skiing, and its range of outdoor sports air and associated activities.

The Durbin and Greenbie Valley Railroad excursion train quarter, the "Rocket Durbin," Durbin left the city itself, located approximately 40 miles from Elkins.

Powered by a steam engine of 55 tons built for Moore-Keppel Company in nearby Wood County Randolph, and one of three locomotives for Climax logging, the train makes a round trip of two hours to run 11 miles along the River and Greenbie Monongahela National Forest in far Piney Island, where the rental "van Castaway Tail" is disconnected and inserted into a short spur way of spending a night or more.

The ultra-modern, high-tech National Radio Astronomy Observatory, located a short distance Green Bank, offers the opportunity to learn about radio astronomy.

The design, construction and operation of radio telescopes the world's most advanced and sophisticated, the Observatory produces images of celestial bodies as planets, stars and galaxies millions of light-years by recording the amount of radio failure.

The science center in Green Bank, the basis of this experience, has a museum which presents the science of radio astronomy, radio waves, the operation of the telescope, and what is learned through them, the universe, the Galaxy has Starlight Cafe, and the point of departure for the tour with the installation, before the introduction of films and lectures are presented in the theater.

The highlight is the Tower C. Robert C. Byrd Green Bank telescope (GBT), designed when the system collapsed more than 300 meters in 1988 and Congress was forced to appropriate emergency funds for the design.

Dedicated August 25, 2000, after a period Development of nine years, which is 485 feet high, consisting of 2004 panels, has a diameter of 100 meters-per-110, an area of 2.3 hectares, and weight 17 million pounds. The largest telescope fully processed, with computer-controlled surface reflects the sun is functionally independent to operate 24 hours a day, and get the lengths of wavelengths ranging from 1/8th inch to nine feet.

Initially used the Arecibo Observatory to produce images of Venus, later identified three new pulsars (rotating neutron stars) in the region Messier 62.

15 minutes of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory is another important point of view, Cass Scenic Railroad State Park.

Tracing the origins to 1899, when John G. Lucas has more than 67,000 acres of spruce in an area in the last example has become the town of Cass, which became the seat of Pulp and Paper Company, West Virginia. The city, supporting the labor required to convert resources into finished goods, sprouted shops, services, housing, a sawmill, tennis, and a railway for transporting timber.

Instrumental for the operation had been the Shay, and also designed and Climax Heisler steam locomotive, which made direct positive control gear and more power, allowing them to follow the layers roads often temporarily, steep slopes and sharp turns while pulling heavy loads of freshly cut wood. Western Maryland # 6, 162 tons, was the last, the heaviest and Shay locomotive ever built. The railway has opened its first service in 1901.

For two 11-hour shifts, six days a week Plant City was able to cut over 125,000 board feet of timber per shift and 360,000 dry run with 11 km of steam lines, a total of 1.5 million board feet cut per week and 35 million per year. After 40 years of grinding in Cass and spruce, over two billion board feet of wood and paper were produced.

In operation until 1943, the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company has sold the business to the Company Mower Wood, which continued for another 17 years, when it was closed and purchased by the State of West Virginia in 1961.

The railroad and the town of Cass, remain essentially unchanged, are listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Besides buildings historical, there are several other attractions. Connected to the big tent of the railway company is subject Cass Last Run Restaurant. Turn of the century registration may be obtained at the Historical Museum Cass. Shay the wagon workshop, which once housed coal has other books and crafts sale. The metal, Cass Showcase building above, after storage of hay for horse feed equipment, has an introductory film and a train HO-scale and the city of design that reflects their 1930s appearance.

Cass walks, usually held in the afternoon after the trains returned from their vision to offer day trips, as that was to live and work in a company town of the century, the tour locomotive repair shop includes visits to Mountain State Railroad and record store of the historical association, the sawmills the region, and a look at Shay and Climax locomotive maintenance and repair.

A trip on the Cass Scenic Railroad itself, which began visits in 1963, so that the scenic train trip of longer duration in the country, is a living history experience. Coached by one First Shay or Climax steam locomotive, the train has a capacity for passenger cars also record that became real cars with seats wood, such as banks and ceilings, while one car closed, offering seats, accommodation and sports has been designated stand- as "Leatherbark Creek."

All trains leaving the warehouse Cass reconstruction, at an altitude of 2456 meters to Leatherneck Run, negotiating grades of 11 percent, reversing the maneuver and zigzagged through an upper and lower, and come to the station Whittaker who has a chip shop, the view of the mountains of West Virginia, and a field of reconstruction of 1946 for registration. The journey of eight miles around to return to Cass required two hours.

At half past four, about 22 miles journey continues up Back Allegheny Mountain, Old Spruce Creek Reservoir oats and water, and navigate the company established Mower woods before reaching Bald Knob 4,842 feet, the third highest summit of West Virginia.

Spruce also offered limited editions, an abandonment of the city record in the industry razors Cheat River. The train also passes Whittaker Station.

Although not associated with the Cass Scenic Railroad, Boyer Station Restaurant, located six miles from Green Bank on Highway 28, offers low-cost, homemade meals country-style decoration in the middle of the railway, with train wooden tables, reminiscent of deposit and banks, trains and memories of registration and scale, mounted on model railroads. It is part of a motel 20 Rooms and Camping Resort.

Winter sports are an important part of the supply of the high mountain country. Ten miles of Cass Scenic Railroad State Park Mountain snowshoes.

Located at the convergence of bowl-shaped tips and rear of Allegheny Mountain to the head Shavers Fork of Cheat River, the region, with strips of trees by logging, between 1905 and 1960, was discovered by Thomas Brigham, a dentist in North Carolina, which had previously opened Beech Mountain and Sugar Mountain ski resorts.

Given European-style shoes Snow Village is located on the top of the mountain 1400 and offers hotel rooms and apartments, shops, restaurants and entertainment services. The 244-acre complex, which combines snowshoeing and Silver Creek areas, Based on 3348 meters is a summit of 4848 meters high, making it the largest ski resort and in the mid-Atlantic and Southeast, 14 chairlifts, 60 tracks, including the longest is 1.5 miles, and elevations of 1,500 meters Cupp Run and Shay's vengeance. average snowfall of 180 inches. Spring Summer and fall activities include golf, boating, mountain biking, climbing, hiking, horseback riding, canoeing, kayaking, skating and swimming.

The extended area of Seneca State Forest, named for the Native Americans who roamed the earth, the boundaries of the river Greenbie in Pocahontas County, and contains 23 miles of forest, 11,684 hectares of forest, a four-acre lake for boating and trout, bass largemouth, bluegill and fishing, hiking tails, pioneer cabins, campsites and rustic.

4. New River Greenbrier Valley

New River Greenbrier Valley region of West Virginia is geographically diversified and resilient beautiful.

Split by the Gauley River, its northern part is composed a steep plateau in which there is calm, blue Summersville Lake, while mountain peaks, a large number of coal mines that provide the internal are characteristics of its central region. Horse and livestock grazing is common in flat areas interspersed with agricultural lush east coast, the plateau Green Mountain, divided by Greenbrier River, the largest, wild water channel in the eastern United States, which crosses it. His area South is a mosaic of omni-directional ridges and narrow valleys.

New and Bluestone rivers formed the river provided much climbing, canoeing, kayaking and rafting opportunities in the region of the state.

The most important and beautiful, terrain, is New River Gorge National River. It flows down the Bluestone Dam, near Hinton, north of U.S. Highway 19 Bridge near Fayetteville, which dissects all physiographic provinces of the Appalachians. A water resistant, White River, and among the oldest in North America, which runs through North steep canyons and geological formations. About 1,000 feet from the bottom of the adjacent shelf. On July 30, 1998, was named American Heritage River, is one of 14 rivers designated as well.

The park covers 70,000 hectares thereof.

Signing of the New River Gorge National Park is the New River Bridge Gorge. Completed October 22, 1977, at a cost of $ 37 million, double hinged, a steel arch bridge is 3030 feet long, 69.3 meters wide and has a rating of 876-feet. Take the four-lane U.S. Route 19, was the world's longest, and is currently the highest road bridge in Americas and the second largest worldwide after the Millau Viaduct in France. His longest stretch only between the arches, is 1,700 feet.

There are three Related centers and VantagePoint. Canyon Rim Visitor Center, located two miles north of Fayetteville on Highway 19, offers exhibitions, films, interpretive programs, trails and a scenic lookout, while the Centre is located at Grandview Thurmond near Interstate 64 on Route 25. Park headquarters are in Glen Jean.

Fayetteville is the center of New River Gorge kayaking and rafting.

Coal, as a synonym for West Virginia such as logging, is that the tourism industry must experience at some point during your visit. The Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine, located in the town of the same name, offers not only an opportunity.

At 1,400 square feet store in the company, coal fudgery museum and gift shop is a visitor center and the threshold of two main components point of view. A coal camp, the first, shows the life of the 20th century in a Coal village, represented by several buildings restored and reinstalled.

Browse 1,500 feet underground in 36-inch seam Phillips-Sprague Mine, which was active between 1883 and 1953, guided themed cars "man" led by miners authentic, for the second component complex and make scheduled stops in the cold, damp, dark hallway to discuss and illustrate the progress of the exploration technique data. The rock powder, for example, said the coal dust would explode at the bottom of the mine. roof bolts strategically located to avoid landslides. bilge pumps. Levels dangerously low oxygen conditions dictate immediate evacuation.

Coal was the world of steam powered industrial facilities and rail and sea.

The Phillips-Sprague Mine is included in the National Register historic sites.

5. Conclusion

Charleston, West Virginia principle of three regions, the Potomac Highlands and the New River Valley Greenbie immersion experiences offered in the past that gave the present form with its pristinely beautiful and rich in mines and natural resources of mountains was coal, timber, logging railroads, and a multitude of outdoor sports.

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