BECKLEY, W.Va. — West Virginia can be a snowy place. Though not nearly as snowy as Maine or Alaska, it snows much of winter, ...

She refers to the delicate nature of the indelicate-looking beast, which thrives in only the most healthy streams. They are ...

The U.S. was rocked violently by union organizing during the rise of industry as workers fought for increased wages and ...

The conflict between the English, the Scotch-Irish "long knives," and native groups led to heinous bloodshed, notably in ...

CORTLAND, W.Va. — High in the Allegheny Mountains in eastern West Virginia lies a scenic valley which a Canadian-like climate ...

QUNNIMONT, W.Va. — There's no shortage of interesting things to see in the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve in West ...

Ferguson's Rock has been moved to the lawn at the historic Wildwood estate at Beckley, W.Va. Ferguson's Rock is an inscribed stone of mysterious origin located at Wildwood in Beckley, West Virginia, ...

A barn sits in an upland meadow at Piney View, a rural residential community near Beckley, W.Va. (Photo by D. Sibray) Coal mines once operated nearby, though the area was principally farmland. In the ...

JANE LEW, W.Va. — It's widely accepted that Tecumseh was born in what's now Ohio, but a handful of historians contend that ...

The Greenbrier Coal Field is the name used to describe a coal-producing section of West Virginia that includes the following counties, in whole or in part: Greenbrier County. Most of the coal from the ...

While the character of the granny witch may be invented, the Devil's Saddle is a very real location—the saddle in New Creek Mountain beneath which Nancy Hanks, the mother of Abraham Lincoln, was ...

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