While the Baltimore & Ohio and Chesapeake & Ohio built robust rail networks where they benefited most, other areas relied on ...

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In the central Canaan Valley, the Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge protects 17,000 acres of upland forest and wetlands in the Allegheny Mountains of northeastern West Virginia. The largest part ...

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Our award-winning guide to West Virginia, West Virginia Explorer was established in 1999 by historian and magazine publisher David Sibray to provide a journalistic online venue for West Virginia ...

The Kanawha 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: Kanawha, Putnam, Mason, Clay, Boone, Lincoln, ...

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, ...

More than 35,000 pounds of trophy-size trout and 6,500 pounds of monster trout were stocked in advance of its Monster Trout ...

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 ...

Though details are obscure, one of the first UFO sightings reported in the U.S. may have originated in West Virginia over the ...