1 INTRODUCTION
West Virginia, covered with endless forests and known as the "Mountain State" offers a breathtaking view, natural resources associated with landmarks and outdoor activities all year round.
Once rich in coal and wood, was recording from the mines and railways, which have dominated to win, but if decades ago lead to the removal of these products, their roles, was green-carpeted mountains secondary derivatives, namely, to walking, cycling, fishing, rafting,Climbing, and hunting for tourists and sports fans alike. His New River Gorge, which offers many similar activities is just as beautiful with rocky coasts and blue area, while the principle city of Charleston, in the years 1970 and 1980 revived, now with museums, art, shopping centers, restaurants and world-class sites.
CHARLESTON 2
Located in the Kanawha River, and sporting slightly negotiable road network system, is dividedCapitol Complex and downtown with the city's historic East End, which connects the two.
From the first, which is the heart of the government of the country, has dominated the gold-domed Capitol itself ubiquitously visible. Made of buff Indiana limestone and 4640 tons of steel, which required the temporary closure of a railroad spur to transport the building in three phases over a period 1924-1925 was born eight years for the west wing, 1926 - 1927 for the EastWing, and from 1930 1932 connector for the round. It 'was officially launched by Governor William G. Conley Dedicated to 20th June 1932, the 69th Birthday of West Virginia as a state.
Its golden dome, which extends five meters higher than the Capitol in Washington, is at 23 ½ carat gold leaf, 1988-1991 used as a small square, which otherwise covered by gilded copper and lead.
Two-thirds of the interior, the 535 000 square meters divided includes333 rooms, is of Italian travertine, imperial derby, and marble from Tennessee, and the chandelier in the rotunda, whose heart is lit by 10 180 pieces of Czechoslovakian crystal 96 light bulbs. Weight of 4000 pounds, hangs from a 54-foot bronze and brass chain.
Compared to the Capitol, but always within the complex, the West Virginia Cultural Center. Opened in 1976 and is managed by the West Virginia Division of Culture and History, was created tothe state of the art, culture and history, and the houses of the West Virginia State Museum to present, archive and history library, a gift shop and a place for cultural events, performances and related programs.
History (3,000,000 BC to 1650 AD), Frontier (1754-1860), civil war, and: the first is a collection of objects that represent the state of the country, people and culture in 24 major scenes for five periods State divided by 35 (1861-1899),Industrialization (1900-1945), change and tradition (1954 for the 21 st century). The 24 tracks also ideas of national development, including periods of "coal forests", "plain of the River," "Wilderness," "The Fort", "Harpers Ferry", "Building the Rails", "Coal Mine" "Main Street, West Virginia" and "New River Gorge."
Thirteen monuments and statues in honor of West Virginia for their contributions to the State and the grace of the nation's Capitol ComplexGardens.
Culture can also be at the Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences, a modern, 240,000 square feet, three levels of the complex at 12 ° Opened in July 2003 and is one of the most ambitious economic, cultural and educational West Virginia has lived the history. With science, visual arts and performing arts under one roof, the center houses two phases Avampato Discovery Museum, an interactive experience with titles such as youthHealth Royale, KidSpace, Earth City and Gizmo Factory. A gallery of 9,000 square meters, located on the second floor, offers temporary and permanent exhibitions, the latter stressing on 19 and 20 Century, with names such as Andy Warhol, Stuart Davis, Alexander Calder, Frank Stella, Vida Frey and Albert Paley. ElectricSky the theater, a 61-foot planetarium dome, offers daily astronomy shows and presentations widescreen. Live performances are held in two locations: the 1883-basedMaier Foundation Performance Hall, home of West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, but otherwise offers a variety of types of services, from comedy to folk singers, bands, repertoire, and Broadway shows and the 200-seat Walker Theater, theater and dance features cabaret seating for the singer-songwriter Woody Hawley program. Douglas V. Reynolds Intermezzo Cafe la, and three classrooms are located downstairs.
Shopping can be done in two great locations. TheCharleston Town Center Mall, right next to the Marriott City Center and Embassy Suites, and near the Civic Center, is one million square meters, three-story complex with over 130 shops, three department stores still, six full-service restaurants and a food court with ten other fast food locations, and is accessed using three convenient parking garages. Sporting a three-story atrium and a fountain, which has been elevated, Kanawha Valley complex, the largest urban shopping center westMississippi when it opened in 1983.
The Capitol Market at the Capitol and Sixth Street in the restored, 1800 Kanawha and Michigan Railroad is a keeper, is both fresh and open air markets, the latter of which can only be used by farmers in good faith and receives every day divided by seasonal shipments, mostly consisting of flowers, shrubs and trees in spring, summer fruits and vegetables, pumpkins, pumpkins and corn stalks in autumn, andChristmas trees, garlands and wreaths in the winter. The covered market sells seafood, cheeses and wines, and offers a number of small food stands and a full-service Italian restaurant.
An evening at TriState Racetrack and Gaming Center can be issued. The hotel is 15 minutes drive from Charleston to Cross Lanes, the restaurant offers 90 000 square feet of gaming fun, including more than 1,300 slot machines, live street racing, a poker room, blackjack, roulette, craps and fourRestaurants: The French Quarter restaurant and bar, the restaurant first corner, the New Orleans Cafe and Crescent City.
3 POTOMAC HIGHLANDS
The Potomac Highlands, which is located in the eastern part of the Allegheny Plateau state, is a fabric of different geographical regions and includes eight counties. Alternatively called "Mountain Highlands", was about 250 million years ago, when American and African tectonic plate collision in the North had a single room, large format producesMass Subjected to cause thousands of wind and water erosion, which led to subsequent valleys and ribs 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 meters in West Virginia highest point. The mountains in abundance of timber, logging railroads needed to use them, two first-class ski resorts, and a variety of sports and outdoor activities.
It may be the Potomac Highlandsdivided into Tygart Valley, Seneca Rocks, Canaan Valley and Big Mountain country.
A. Tygart Valley
The City of Elkins, which is in the Tygart Valley, is the center of transportation, commercial and social center-Eastern Appalachian Mountains and serves as the basis for the Potomac Highlands tour.
Founded in 1890 by Senators Henry Gassaway Davis and Stephen. B. Elkins, the son-in-law and business partner was there as a hub for shipping their coal, timber andRailroad Empire, of which the results of their self-financed the construction of the West Virginia Central Railroad, whose route stretched from Cumberland, Maryland, and Elkins, and served as a threshold for some of the richest in the world of timber and mineral resources .
The city, the needs of miners, loggers and railroad workers, factories sprouted plants and expanded steadily and peaked in 1920, before the start of depletion of resources caused the decline until the lastRail, the products of coal and timber for the rest of the country went to the store in 1959.
The tracks were empty and unused for almost half a century, until 2007, when the new constitution Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad resurrect them and the city-transportation, the first tourists for scenic purposes and re-ride of a cycle of slow growth with a Built in the restaurant and live theater in its historic Elkins Railyard and other hotels nearby. ConsistentRegarded as one of the best small art towns in the country, is once again the hub of the Highlands Mountain service, returning to their goal of providing hotel, restaurant, shop and entertainment, but now a new group of tourists.
The railway remains at the center. Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad The offers three departures from the Elkins Depot. The first of these, the "New Tygart Flyer", is a four-hour, 46 miles round-trip pass, which plunges through the trick MountainTunnel passes through the cities of Bowdon, and Bemis, parallel to the Shavers Fork of Cheat River, and holds the High Falls of Cheat horseshoe, during which in a way, serves a lunch buffet. Updated table service, in 1922-ear deluxe Pullman Palace cars available at a slightly higher price.
The "Cheat Mountain Salamander" is a nine-hour, 128-mile round trip to Spruce, and includes a buffet lunch and dinner, while the "Mountain Express Dinner Train" mimics the New TygartFlyer of the path, but it is a four-course meal in a formal dining car.
The Railyard Restaurant, Elkins between the Depot and the American Mountain Theater sandwich, all meals on board. Emulating the same store, with its facade of brick construction, the $ 2,500,000, 220-seat restaurant, Durbin and Greenbrier Railroad hire Valley, serves home cooking, which on its main level and high-class restaurants on the second floor Vista Dome dining room, inspired by its menuChariot rates from 1920 to 1940. And 'dragged the opening theme, "Take the lane to the place with exceptional taste."
The Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad Rails to Trails and gifts is at the root level.
Continuation of the historic red brick facade, the American Theatre nearby mountain, founded in 2003 by Elkins native and RCA artist, Susie Heckel, has its origins in a variety show for the tourists in a different location through out. Butgrowing demand earned in November 2006, groundbreaking ceremony for $ 1.7 million, 12,784 square feet, 525 seats, the structure with the help of his sister, Beverly Sexton, and her husband, Kenny, the Ozark Mountain Hoe-Down in Eureka Springs theater property, Arkansas.
Opened in July following, offered to the family-oriented theater, performed in Branson-style entertainment with nine member cast, with Kenny Sexton, who was its president and producer, and Beverly writing the score. Two hours in the eveningalso shows comedy, impressions and country, gospel, bluegrass and pop music.
Davis and Elkins College, located a few blocks from the historic Railyard, shares the founder of the city of Elkins himself, Henry Gassaway Davis and Senator Stephen B. Elkins. Founded in 1901, when he donated land and funding to a college affiliated with the Presbyterian Church to create, was originally south of the city. Its Board of Trustees met for the first time the following year andThe classes were at 21 September 1904, however.
Today, the coeducational, liberal arts college, on a hilly 170-acre, wooded campus overlooking the Appalachian Mountains, historic buildings and new 22 in two sections, north, extending the sports seats and the front is made up campus , located on a ridge overlooking Elkins. Thirty employees and high school art, science, vocational and professional courses are offered on a 700-studentBase.
One of the historic buildings of Graceland Inn. Designed by the Baltimore architectural firm Baldwin and Pennington, the Castle, the Queen Anne style mansion, originally built on a 360-acre farm is located, was completed in 1893. Originally called "Mingo Swamp" and sometimes "Mingo Hall", after the area south of Elkins, the property was the summer residence of Senator Davis, who regularly carries a train of friends and acquaintances invited in July and August, so thatWashington was able to escape the heat and enjoy a higher elevation Elkins', the coldest temperatures.
The company was later renamed "Graceland" by his youngest daughter, Davis, Grace. After his wife died in 1902, has continued to drive sales offices in it, while Grace was living there during the summer months with his family.
The property was then transferred to their children, Ellen Bruce Lee and John A. Kennedy, the last two owners.
Acquired by the West VirginiaPresbyterian Education Fund in 1941 as it was a boys' dormitory of the university was used until 1970, after which they closed. Renovated in the mid-1990, then as a country inn reopened as a historic and dynamic learning laboratory for hospitality students.
Listed with city Elkins Davis and Elkins College campus, Graceland Inn, on the National Register of Historic Places, two-story great room is richly decorated with quartered hard woods like oak,Maple, cherry and walnut, a grand staircase, a lounge, a library, and original stained glass. The original name of the restaurant reflects Mingo villa and open to the public, in four small rooms with fireplaces and red oak, and an outdoor patio, and eleven rooms, divided fed with the second and third floor and take the family name prominent members include antiques, canopy beds, wardrobes, marble bathrooms and claw foot clawTanks.
And their future - Graceland Inn, the David and Elkins College, Elkins, the city itself, the deposit and the historic layout of the track, their traces, and the mountains of Appalachian coal and timber reserves are all inextricably linked to history of the city.
B. Seneca Rocks
"Seneca Rocks" refers to both a region of the Potomac Highlands and outcrops on which the area is known.
Back as a razor blade, or shark fins and is located at the confluence of Seneca Creek andThe North Fork South Branch Potomac River, 250 feet thick, 900 feet high Seneca Rocks, West Virginia reached by Route 28, were 400 million years ago during the Silurian in a large sandbar on the edge of ancient ocean Iapetus formed. Decreases as the oceans, has raised, folded rock and erosion will eventually wear out its top, leaving the time and the jagged folds show today.
From the white and gray Tuscarora quartzite, theEducation is characterized by a point north and south, with a notch between the two.
Seneca Rocks Discovery Center, the current, which replaces the original visitors center, the area offers plastics, films, interpretive programs and a library.
One path leads to the sites of Homestead, part of the center. Built in 1839 by William sites as a single room house in Ridge Seneca Rocks, is typically present at that time houses in Appalachia, their German-style log houseV-notched logs and square corner joints and cracks in stone spread of mud.
In 1860, built one of the sons of the sites' on the farm, adding a second floor, and after use as a granary, the Forest Service has purchased in 1969, restoring in 1980. In 1993 he was included in the National Register of Historic Places.
The largest Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area and provides important outdoor sports facilities, contains a fundamental part of the ChesapeakeBay watershed to gather, the mountains and forests of water that flows into the Potomac River and then in the same bay. Acting as a cleansing and filtering mechanism clean water source forest before it reaches the rivers. Spruce Knob is the highest point is in the Chesapeake Watershed and the entire state of West Virginia.
In addition to facilitating the water, the area has food to people who previously lived in the villages of Native Americans in the mountains made available, and thenestablished settlements and agricultural fields of recording, extracting its resources and the preservation of life of 13,000 years ago. Today it is home to 15 million people.
The Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area itself is part of the largest National Forest Monongahela. Founded in 1920 with an initial 7200 hectares, 910 155 hectares of this forest includes the headwaters of the Monongahela, Potomac, Greenbrier, Elk, Tygart and Gauley rivers, five government-appointed"Wilderness" Dolly Sods, external Creek, Laurel Fork North, Laurel Fork South and blueberries are very remote and primitive areas have lower scores only the standard route and four lakes.
A mecca for outdoor enthusiasts, the 169 National Forest hiking trails, mountain biking and equestrian who are more than 800 miles, 576 miles of trout streams, 129 miles of warm water fishing, 23 campsites, 17 picnic areas display cover and wildlife of black bears, wild turkeys, bald eaglesDeer, gray fox, rabbit, snowshoe hare, grouse and woodcock.
C. Canaan Valley
Bigtooth covered with poplar, balsam fir, spruce, and Canaan Valley, located 14 miles, is the highest valley east of the Mississippi River, its namesake mountain separates them from the River Blackwater and a deep, narrow gorge in the Plateau Allegheny.
The beautiful unspoilt area includes two state parks, Canaan Valley Resort and Blackwater Falls State Park, two skiAreas of New Canaan Valley Resort and Timberline Four Seasons Resort, and the nation Wednesday night in the 500 Wildlife Refuge.
Natural sports abound: hiking, horseback riding, fishing, golf, swimming, rafting, and nature interpretation in the summer and skiing, snowboarding and tubing in the winter.
Core Plus, this 6000-acre Canaan Valley Resort State Park, 18 kilometers of trails, wetlands, meadows, hardwood forests of northern wildlife, including 200 species of600 species of birds and wildflowers.
Canaan Valley Resort, located within the park offers 250 modern rooms, 23 two, three and four bedroom cabins with fireplace, fully equipped kitchen, 34 paved, wooded campsites with full hook-ups, and six restaurants and bars including Hickory Dining Room at the main house.
Its 4280 meters high mountain, along which travel is 1.25 km and the altitude is 850 meters, has a quad and two triple lifts and 11 trailsNight skiing. Its activities in winter, as the advance of Canaan Valley, skiing, snowboarding, skating air boarding, tubing, snowshoeing and ice during the summer scenic chairlift runs programs, guided hikes, golf, tennis and hiking are .
D. Big Mountain Country
Big Mountain County, the second highest position the tip of West Virginia serves as the birthplace of eight rivers, Greenbrier, Gauley, Cheat, Cherry, Elk, Williams, Cranberry, Seneca and Tygart, during his StateForest, which is the ancient border of Pocahontas County, the state's oldest. A number of interesting attractions are steam logging railroads, the city retains observers, a leading ski resort, and the associated range of sports and outdoor activities.
The fourth Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad excursion train, the "Durbin Rocket," runs from the town of Durbin himself, is about 40 miles from Elkins.
Powered by a 55-ton steam engine builtfor the Moore-Keppel Lumber Company in the neighboring county of Randolph, and aligned with a residue of only three Climax logging locomotive, the train makes two hours, 11 miles round trip along the Greenbrier River and the Monongahela National Forest Piney far as the foot ' Iceland, where the rent "Castaway Caboose" separately and met in a very short stimulus trace for one or more nights.
The ultra-modern high-tech National Radio Astronomy Observatory is located not farat Green Bank, offers the opportunity to learn about astronomy radio waves.
Design, construction and operation of radio telescopes in the world's most advanced and sophisticated products, images observation of celestial bodies as planets, stars and galaxies millions of light years away from recording his radio injunction.
The Green Bank Science Center, the heart of this experience, is a museum that focuses on the science of radio astronomy, radio, telescopicOperation, and what is experienced by them throughout the universe, the Galaxy Gift Shop, the Starlight Cafe and the starting point for the guided bus tour of the facility before, is an introductory video and lecture presented at the theater.
The highlight of the tour is Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT), develops when the previous 300 units of the broken foot in 1988, and Congress was forced to appropriate emergency funds to create it.
Dedicated Aug. 252000, after nine years of development, is 485 meters high, is made up of 2,004 panels, has a 100-by-110 meters in diameter, a 2.3-acres and weighs about 17 million pounds. Largest fully steerable telescope in the world with a computer-controlled reflective surface, it is functionally independent of the sun, which allows 24 hours a day-to-day operation and receives wavelengths ranging from 1/8th of an inch to nine feet.
First used in connection with the AreciboObservatory to produce images of Venus, has also identified three new pulsars (rotating neutron stars) in the region of Messier 62.
A 15-minute drive from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory is another important aspect, Cass Scenic Railroad State Park
Trace its origins to 1899 when John G. Hatch earned more than 67,000 acres of spruce in an area that eventually developed into the Cass City, was the seat of West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company. TheCity, the support staff needed to convert raw materials into finished products, sprouted shops, services, shops, a sawmill and a railroad track, hauling the wood.
The operation had been instrumental in the Shay or Climax and Heisler locomotives whose direct gear delivered a positive control, and more also designed similar power, so that folk often temporarily tracks, hairpin turns and climbs, all the while pulling heavy wood just cutLoads. The Western Maryland No. 6 to 162 tons, was the last and most difficult, Shay locomotive ever built. The railway has opened its first service in 1901.
During two 11-hour shifts six days a week, the city, the mill is able to dry more than 125,000 cubic meters of timber per shift and 360,000 to run, with its 11 kilometers, was cut from pipes Steam, adding up to 1, 5 million board feet per week and 35 million per year on average. After 40 years of milling in Cass and spruce, more than two billion cubic metersWood and paper were produced.
Active until 1943, has sold the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, the Company, the Company Lumber mower, which he held for another 17 years, when they closed and was purchased by the State of West Virginia, in 1961.
The railway and the town of Cass, which remain virtually unchanged, are listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Apart from the historic buildings there are some other attractions. Attached to theCass Company Store is the largest railway themed restaurant Last Run. Turn-of-the-century, the registration can be found at the Historical Museum Cass. Shop Railroad Shay after that once housed coal bins, books and other crafts for sale. The metal building on Cass Showcase, stored hay to feed horses that team, offers an introductory film and a HO-scale train layout of the city that its appearance 1930.
Guided tours of Cass, usually performedIn the afternoon, after the train back from their daily trips, provide an insight into what was to live and work in a turn-of-the-century town company, while the locomotive repair facility includes guided tour of Mt State Railroad Historical Association and recording business, the area of the sawmill and a look at Shay and Climax locomotive maintenance and repair.
A trip on the Cass Scenic Railway itself, tourists rides began in 1963 and thenlongest dramatic train ride in the country, experience living history. Trailed by one of the original or Shay Climax steam locomotive takes passengers on cars to access equally, the buses have been converted into wood, banking transactions, such as seats and roofs, while only a closed car, with reserved seats Stand-sports-such as housing and is called "Leatherbark Creek."
All trains depart from Cass depot is rebuilt in a 2456-foot-Poll, climbing Leatherneck Run negotiate 11-hundred degrees, maneuvering and reversing a lower and upper bend, until the arrival at the station Whittaker, a feature of a snack bar, overlooking the mountains of eastern West Virginia, and the reconstruction of 1946 field registration. The eight miles round trip lasts two hours Cass.
Four years and a half hours, 22 miles round trip back to the Allegheny Mountains, past the old Spruce Creek water tank and oats and the track twistMower Lumber Company as defined by the first 4842 meters Bald Knob, the third highest peak in West Virginia.
Small series are also offered, spruce, a city abandoned recording the Shavers Fork of Cheat River. This train also transits Whittaker Station.
Even if they are not with the Cass Scenic Railroad, which Boyer Station Restaurant, located six miles from Green Bank on Route 28 connected, offering inexpensive home-made country-style decor with wooden dining by rail, railDepot reminds tables and benches, train memorabilia, and recording and large scale model railroad track. It is part of a 20-room motel and campground complex.
Winter sports are a significant part of the Big Mountain country driven. Ten miles from the Cass Scenic Railroad State Park Mountain snowshoes.
The hotel is located in the shell-shaped convergence of Cheat and Back Allegheny Mountains at the top of Shavers Fork of Cheat River, the forage trees throughRecord 1905-1960, was discovered by Thomas Brigham, a dentist in North Carolina who previously Beech Mountain and Sugar Mountain ski resorts had opened.
European style is reflective, snow-shoe on top of the mountain village and offers 1,400 rooms and residential complexes, restaurants, shops, services and entertainment. The 244-acre resort, the Snowshoe and Silver Creek areas combined, has a 3348 meters, a 4848-meter summit, making it the best exampleSki resort in the middle of the Atlantic and Southeast, 14 chairlifts, 60 runs, of which the longest is 1.5 km and 1500 m altitude of Cupp Run and Shay's Revenge. Average snowfall is 180 inches. Spring, summer, autumn and activities such as golf, boating, cycling, climbing, hiking, horseback riding, canoeing, kayaking, skating and swimming.
The extensive area of the Seneca State Forest, according to the Native Americans who roamed the land once called, is adjacent to the Greenbrier River in PocahontasProvince and includes 23 kilometers of forests, 11 684 hectares of forest, four acres of lake for boating and trout, largemouth bass and bluegill fishing, hiking tails, pioneer cabins and rustic campsites.
4 New River-Greenbrier Valley
The New River-Greenbrier Valley Region West Virginia is topographically diverse and pretty robust.
Divided by the Gauley River is the northern section of a rugged plateau, is located in the calm, blue sea covers Summerville, whileridges, giving full coal mining interior, characteristic of the central region. Of horses and cattle grazing is widespread on the size of the dish companies, applying the eastern edge of the green plateaus, divided by the Greenbrier River, the largest, wild water channel in the eastern United States, which flows through him. Its southern region is a patchwork of omni-directional comb lines and very narrow valleys.
New and Bluestone River gorgesoffer a wide variety of rock climbing, canoeing, kayaking and rafting opportunities in this region of the country.
Most important and beautiful topography of the area is the New River Gorge National River. Flowing from below Bluestone Dam near Hinton, north of U.S. Highway 19 Bridge near Fayetteville, we analyze all the physiographic provinces of the Appalachian Mountains. A rugged, white-water river, and is among the oldest in North America that flows northsteeply through the canyons and geological formations. About 1,000 feet above the ground from the adjacent plateau. On July 30, 1998, was named American Heritage River, designated one of 14 waterways Sun
The park covers 70,000 hectares associated.
Signature of the New River Gorge National Park is the New River Gorge Bridge. Completed October 22, 1977 at a cost of $ 37 million, double hinged steel arch bridge is 3030 meters long, 69.3 meters wide and has a 876 metersLiquidation. Carry four lanes of U.S. Route 19, was the longest in the world, and is currently the tallest vehicular bridge in the North and South America and the second highest in the world after the Millau Viaduct in France. His longest duration between the arches, is 1,700 feet.
There are three visitor centers and points of view on. The Canyon Rim Visitor Center, two miles north of Fayetteville on Route 19 offers, exhibitions, films, interpretive programs, hiking trails and scenicneglected during the Thurmond Center Grandview Interstate 64 is located on Route 25 Park has its headquarters in Glen Jean.
Fayetteville is the center of New River Gorge rafting and kayaking.
Coal, as a synonym of West Virginia, such as registration, is an industry standard, the visitor should experience at some point during his visit. The Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine, located in the eponymous town, offers such an opportunity.
At 1,400 square meters Company Store, coalMuseum shop and the gift fudgery serves as visitor center and emerging at the sight of two main components. A coal-bearing, the first of these shows, in the 20 th century life in a typical coal town, which moved from several buildings restored and displayed.
Exercise of 1,500 feet of underground tunnels to 36-inch Phillips-Sprague Seam mines that were active 1883-1953 include track had linked "man cars" driven by real miners, the second component of the complex and at regular intervalsFirm to discuss the cold, damp, dark corridor and to show the evolution of mining techniques. Rock duster, for example, to ensure that coal dust explosion in the mine is not deep. Feet positioned strategically to avoid collapse of the roof. Water pumps withdrawn. Dangerously low oxygen levels dictate immediate evacuation.
Coal had fed the world of steam engines for industrial and rail and sea.
The Phillips-Sprague Mine is on the national listRegister of Historic Places.
5 CONCLUSION
West Virginia is usually revealed three regions of Charleston, offering the Potomac Highlands, and the New River-Greenbrier Valley immersive experiences in the past, the present through its mines perfectly beautiful and rich in resources and mountains, charcoal, shaped wood, logging railroads , and an abundance of outdoor sports.
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