A tourist guide to West Virginia

Before INTRODUCTION

West Virginia, covered with endless forests and known as the "Mountain State", breathtaking scenery, natural resources-related attractions and outdoor activities all year round.

Once rich in coal and wood, was from the mines and railways registration, which extract form, but decades of deportation if such goods, their roles, we found green carpet Bergen secondary origin, ie walk , cycling, fishing Began dismantling, rafting, climbing,and hunting of tourists and sportsmen alike. The New River Gorge, which offers many similar activities is just as beautiful with its rugged shores and blue surface, while the principle of the city of Charleston, in the years 1970 and 1980, has relaunched today with museums, art galleries, shopping malls, restaurants and world class performance venues.

According CHARLESTON

The Kanawha River and sporting slightly negotiable system of road network is divided into the Capitol Complexand the city center with the East End Historic District, which connects the two.

From the first, which is the heart of state government, is the ubiquitous visible, even gold-domed Capitol Building. Constructed of buff Indiana limestone and 4,640 tonnes of steel, which requires the temporary closure of a spur line to transport them, the building was in three phases have been raised over a period of eight years for 1924-1925 " The West Wing from 1926 to 1927 for the east wing and 1930to 1932 for the round connection. E 'was officially launched on Governor William G. Dedicated to Conley by 20 June 1932, the 69th Birthday West Virginia as a state.

Its golden dome, which extends five feet above the Capitol in Washington, is plotted plated in 23 carat gold leaf to cover ½ 1988-1991 as small squares of copper and lead other surfaces.

Two thirds of the Interior, the 535,000 square feet divided into 333 rooms, includes bothcomposed of Italian travertine, Imperial Derby, and marble from Tennessee, and the chandelier in the rotunda, the inner piece, 10,180 pieces of Czechoslovakian crystal is illuminated by 96 lamps. Weighing 4000 pounds hanging from a 54-foot brass and bronze chain.

Compared to the Capitol, but is generally in the West Virginia Cultural Center. Opened in 1976 and is managed by the West Virginia Division of Culture and history, was to present a newState of artistic, cultural and historical heritage, and the houses of the West Virginia State Museum, Archives and History Library, a gift shop and a place for cultural events, shows, and related programs.

The first, a collection of objects representing state land, people and culture is significant in 24 scenes in five periods: Prehistory (3000000 BC divided by 1650), Frontier (1754-1860) civil war and 35 ° State (1861-1899),Industrialization (1900-1945) and Change and Tradition (1954 for the 21st century). The 24 ideas even traces of State Development and include the time as "Coal Forest", "River Plains" "Wilderness," "The Fort", Harper's Ferry "," Building the Rails, "" Coal Mine "" Main Street, West Virginia and New River Gorge. "

Thirteen monuments, monuments and statues in honor of West Virginia for their contributions to the State Capitol Complex and grace is the nationCountry Park.

Culture can also at Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences, a modern, 240,000 sq. meters, three-story complex on 12 Opened in July 2003 and is one of the most ambitious projects in economic, cultural and educational history must be lived out West Virginia. Offering sciences, fine arts and performing arts under one roof the houses in the middle of two levels inflames Discovery Museum, interactive experience with youth-oriented sections, asHealth KidSpace Royale, City of Earth, and Gizmo Factory. A 9000 square foot gallery, located on the second floor, offers temporary and permanent exhibitions, the latter nineteenth and twentieth century art emphasis names like Andy Warhol, Stuart Davis, Alexander Calder, Frank Stella, Vida Frey and Albert Paley. ElectricSky Theatre, a planetarium dome of 61 feet, astronomy offers daily shows, and widescreen presentations. Live performances are held in two venues: the 1,883 seatsMaier Foundation Performance Hall, home of West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, but otherwise offers a variety of types of services, from comedy's most popular singers, bands, repertoire, and Broadway shows, and the 200-seat Walker Theater, the 'pieces and dance features seating for the program of cabaret singer Woody Hawley. The Douglas V. Reynolds Intermezzo Cafe and three classrooms are located on the lower level.

Shopping can be done in two main locations. TheCharleston Town Center Mall is located near the center Marriott and Embassy Suites Hotel near the Civic Center, one million square feet, three-level complex with more than 130 shops, three more department stores, six restaurants and a full-service Food Court with ten additional fast-food places, and is easily accessible from three parking lots. Sporting a three-storey hall and the fountain, to the upper Kanawha Valley complex was the largest urban mall eastthe Mississippi River when it opened in 1983.

The restored Capitol Market, the Capitol and the Sixth and roads rebuilt, 1800, Kanawha and Michigan Railway depot in both internal and external markets are divided, the second of which can only be used by farmers in good faith and replaced daily Fresh , seasonal goods, mostly consisting of flowers, shrubs and trees in spring, summer fruits and vegetables, pumpkins, pumpkins and corn stalks in autumn, andChristmas trees, wreaths, garlands and winter. The covered market sells seafood, cheeses and wines, and offers lots of small food stands and a full-service Italian restaurant.

An evening may be spent at TriState Racetrack and Gaming Center. The 15-minute drive from Charleston to Cross Lanes, offers 90,000 square feet of gaming excitement of the city, including more than 1,300 slot machines, live racing, a poker room, blackjack, roulette, craps, and fourRestaurants: The French Quarter restaurant and bar, the restaurant first stage, the New Orleans Cafe and Crescent City.

Third POTOMAC HIGHLANDS

The Potomac Highlands, located in the eastern part of the state on the Allegheny Plateau, is a tissue from different geographical areas and includes eight counties. Alternatively, the "Mountain Highlands, had about 250 million years, when North America and African continent collision had produced a single, educated raisedMax Subjected to millennia of wind and water erosion, brought them in parallel valleys and ridges later, and today the area includes two national parks: Canaan Valley, the highest in the east of the Mississippi River, and Spruce Knob, at 4,861 meters, the highest point in West Virginia. Its mountains covered with green wood was plenty, railways registration required, harness, two class ski resorts in the world, and a variety of sports and outdoor activities.

The PotomacIf the Tygart Valley Highlands, Seneca Rocks, Canaan Valley be divided, and Big Mountain country.

A. Tygart Valley

The City of Elkins, located in the Tygart Valley, is transportation, shopping and social center of the eastern central Appalachian Mountains and serves as a starting point for excursions to the Potomac Highlands.

Founded in 1890 by Senator Henry Gassaway Davis and Stephen. B. Elkins, the son-in-law, and business flourished as a hub for the delivery of theirCoal, timber and railroad empire that extended the latter the result of their self-financed construction of the Western Railway central Virginia with a length between Cumberland, Maryland, and Elkins, and served as a threshold for some of the richest in the world timber and mineral resources.

The city, the needs of miners, loggers and railroad workers, power plants and maintenance shops sprouted steadily increasing, high in 1920, before the start of a breakdown of the causes of reduced resourcesuntil the 'last train of coal and wood products for the rest of the country, the warehouse was in 1959.

The tracks were empty and unused for nearly half a century, until 2007, when the newly Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad and revive their city transport, the first tourists for scenic and-ride resparking a cycle of slow growth followed by a built restaurant and live theater in its historic Elkins Railyard and other hotels nearby.Consistently one of the country's best small art towns rank, is again the focus of the service Highlands Mountain, return to their original purpose to provide hotels, restaurants, shops and entertainment services, but now a new group of tourists.

The railway remains the center. The Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad offers three departures from the station Elkins. The first of these, the New Tygart Flyer, "is a four-hour, 46 miles roundtrip runs, crashCheat Mountain Tunnel goes, the cities of Bowdon, and Bemis, the parallels Shavers Fork of Cheat River, and stops at the High Falls of Cheat horseshoe, during which there is a ride, buffet lunch. Improvement of service at the table is 1922-ear-deluxe Pullman Palace cars for a price slightly higher.

The "Cheat Mountain Salamander" is a nine-hour, round trip 128 miles of fir, and includes a buffet lunch and dinner, while the "Mountain Express Dinner Train imitates"New Tygart Flyer route, but has a four-course dinner in a formal dining set.

The restaurant of the binary system, sandwiched between the Elkins Depot and the American Mountain Theater, has all meals on board. Emulate the store, with its facade of brick construction, $ 2,500,000, 220 seats, restaurant, leased to Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad, serves home cooking dinner at central and high level in his second floor room Vista Dome dining, its menuInspired by car rates from 1920 to 1940. He pulled open the slogan: "Take the title to the site with exceptional taste."

The Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad Rails and Trails Gift Shop is located on the main level.

The continuation of the historic, red brick exterior, the adjacent American Mountain Theatre, 2003 by Elkins and RCA recording artist's native, Susie Heckel, conducts its origins were made on the basis of a variety show for tourists on a differentLocation. Increased demand earned in November 2006, an innovative ceremony $ 1,700,000, 12,784 square meters, the structure from 525 sites with the help of his sister, Beverly Sexton, and her husband Kenny, who owned the Ozark Mountain Hoe-Down Theater in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

Opening hours of July following, offered the family-oriented theater, Branson-style entertainment performed by a cast of nine members, with Kenny Sexton as president and producer, Beverly writing the score.Evening entertainment includes two hours of comedy, impressions and Country, Gospel, Bluegrass and Pop music.

Davis and Elkins College, is a few blocks from the old binary system, it behaves like the founders of the city of Elkins himself, namely, Senator Henry Gassaway Davis and Stephen B. Elkins. Founded in 1901, when he donated land and funding to a college to do with the Presbyterian Church members, was originally south of the city. His first meeting of the Board of Trusteesthe following year, and classes were Held on 21 September, 1904.

Today, co-educational, liberal arts college, hilled on a site of 170 acres of woods overlooking the Appalachian Mountains, with 22 new and historic buildings in two sections-north, which includes sports fields on campus, and front sections, one on a ridge overlooking Elkins is located. Thirty employees baccalaureate and arts, the sciences, the programs are pre-vocational and vocationalprovided a base of 700 students.

One of its historic buildings is Graceland Inn. Designed by architects Baltimore Baldwin and Pennington, the castle, Queen Anne style house, originally located on a farm of 360 acres, was completed 1893rd Originally conceived as "Mingo Moro" and sometimes "Mingo Hall" after the area south of Elkins, the property served as a summer residence of Senator Davis, who regularly carries a train of invited friends and staff in Julyand August, so that to escape the heat and enjoy greater height Washington Elkins, 'cooler temperatures.

The estate was eventually named "Graceland" Davis 'youngest daughter,' Grace. After his wife died in 1902, continued to conduct business with offices in it, while Grace was living there in the summer with his family.

The estate was finally transferred to their children, Ellen Bruce Lee and John A. Kennedy, his last twoOwners.

Purchased from West Virginia Presbyterian Education Fund in 1941 was like a male dormitory of the university set up in 1970 after it was closed. Restored in the mid-1990s, which later reopened as a historic country inn and as a dynamic learning laboratory for hospitality students.

Elkins view of the city, listed on the campus of Davis and Elkins College, Graceland Inn, on the National Register of Historic Places, has a room two floors, large richquartered decorated with hardwoods such as oak, maple air, cherry and walnut, a large scale, a lounge, a library, and its original stained glass windows. The Mingo Room Restaurant, where the name of the original dwelling and open to the public in four smaller rooms with red oak and fireplaces and an outdoor patio, and eleven rooms, lined to second and third floor split and the name of prominent representatives of include family, antiques, canopy beds,Closets, marble bathrooms and claw foot tubs.

Graceland Inn, the David and Elkins College, Elkins, the city itself, the historic depot and railway lines, tracks, and coal of the Appalachian mountains and timber resources are all linked inextricably to the city in the past - and their future.

B. Seneca Rocks

"Seneca Rocks" encompasses an area of the Potomac Highlands and excesses, which is named for the region.

That back like a razor blade or shark fin, andthe confluence of Seneca Creek and North Fork South Branch Potomac River, 250 feet thick, 900 meters high Seneca Rocks, West Virginia reached by Route 28, were 400 million years ago during the Silurian sand brought up in a large bench edge of the ancient Iapetus Ocean. As the sea shrinks, bent and lifted the rock, erosion finally wear her top and letting the folds time and craggy profile show today.

ByWhite and gray Tuscarora quartzite, functions of education is a North-South summit, with a notch between the two.

The current Seneca Rocks Discovery Center, the original version of the visitor center offers relief area farmer, films, interpretive programs and a library.

One path leads to Homestead Sites, part of the center. Built in 1839 by William sites for single cabin in Seneca Rocks Ridge is typical of the Current property and Appalachiantheir log home featuring German-style square logs and distributes the corner joints in the V-notch stone and mud cracks.

expanded in the late 1860s, one of the sons of the sites' of the yard by adding a second floor, and after use as a barn, the Forest Service acquired in 1969, reported in 1980. In 1993 he was admitted to the National Register of Historic Places.

The Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area's largest and offers great opportunities for outdoor sports,contains a fundamental part of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, the mountains and forests to collect water that flows into the Potomac River and the bay itself serves as the forests of cleaning and filtering mechanism clean water source before it reaches the streams' water. Spruce Knob is the highest point is in the Chesapeake basin and the entire state of West Virginia.

In addition to facilitating water, food area is on the person who has lived in the first Native AmericanVillages in the mountains, and then created agricultural settlements and logging camps, mining its resources and the preservation of life for about 13,000 years. Today is home to 15 million people.

The Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area is itself part of the largest Monongahela National Forest. Founded in 1920 with an initial 7,200 hectares to 910,155 hectares, this forest contains sources of the Monongahela, Potomac, Greenbrier, Elk, Tygart and Gauley rivers;Federal designated five "desert"-Dolly Sods, external Creek, Laurel Fork North, Laurel Fork South and blueberries their very remote areas and offer only a primitive trail marking the lowest standard and four lakes.

A mecca for outdoor enthusiasts, the National Forest offers 169 foot, bicycle, horseback riding and hiking trails, more than 800 miles, 576 miles of trout streams Cover, 129 miles of warm water fishing, 23 campsites, 17 picnic areas and ads Wildlife Black BearWild Turkey, White-tailed deer, gray fox, rabbit, snowshoe hare, grouse and woodcock.

C. Canaan Valley

Cover with bigtooth Aspen, balsam fir and spruce, Canaan Valley, 14 miles, extending both the highest valley east of the Mississippi River, its namesake mountain separates them from the River Blackwater and a deep narrow gorge in the Allegheny Plateau.

The impeccably beautiful area includes two state parks, Canaan Valley Resort and BlackwaterFalls State Park, two ski resorts, Canaan Valley Resort and Timberline Four Seasons Resort again, and the nation's 500 Wildlife Refuge.

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

Nucleus of most of these is 6,000 hectares of Canaan Valley Resort State Park, which includes 18 miles of open trails, wetlands,Meadows, hardwood forests to the north, fauna, 200 species of birds and 600 species of wildflowers.

Canaan Valley Resort, inside the park has 250 modern rooms, 23 two, three and four bedroom cottage with fireplace and fully equipped kitchen, 34 paved, wooded campsites with full hook-up, and six restaurants and bars including Hickory dining room in the main house.

The mountain 4,280 meters, the longest is 1.25 km and the height difference850 feet, has a quad and two triple lifts, ski trails and 11 for night skiing. Its activities in the winter, such as the extension of the Canaan Valley ski, snowboard, air boarding, tubing, snowshoeing, ice skating and summer programs, scenic chairlift rides, guided hikes, golf, tennis and excursions are.

D. Mountain Big Country

County, Big Mountain, home of the second highest in West Virginia, serves as the birthplace of eight rivers, the green beer, Gauley, cheat,Cherry, Elk, Williams, Cranberry, and while his Tygart-Seneca State Forest, which borders the former Pocahontas County is the state's oldest. A number of places of interest are recording steam powered railways, observers kept the city a world class resort, and the associated range of sports and outdoor activities.

The fourth Durbin and Green Valley Beer Train Train, "the Durbin Rocket," runs from the town of Durbinitself, which is located about 40 miles from Elkins.

Powered by a steam engine of 55 tons for timber Moore-Keppel Company in nearby Randolph County, built, and a residue of only three Climax locomotive line registration, making the two-hour train, 11 miles round trip on foot along Beer and the Green River through the Monongahela National Forest, where Piney Iceland, where rents "Castaway Caboose separately," and came to a fork very short one or more nights.

Theultra-modern high-tech National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, not far, offers the opportunity to know the wave astronomy.

Design, construction and operation of more advanced and sophisticated radio telescopes in the world, produces images of the observatory of celestial bodies as planets, stars and galaxies millions of light years away from recording his radio injunction.

The Green Bank Science Center, center of this experience,has a museum that takes the science of radio astronomy, radio, operation of the telescope, and what is learned through them about the universe, the Galaxy gift shop, the Starlight Café, and the starting point for tours guided bus structure, a film introductory lesson and are presented in the theater.

The highlight of the tour is Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT), developed earlier that the 300-foot drive collapsed in 1988 and CongressIt 'was forced to appropriate emergency funds to draw it.

Dedicated August 25, 2000, after nine years of development, it was then to 485 meters high, consists of 2004 panels included, has a 100-to-110 meters in diameter, an area of 2.3 hectares and weighs 17 million pounds. largest in the world, completely portable computer-controlled telescope with a mirror finish, is functionally independent of the sun, allowing the operation of 24 hours a day, and receive wavelengths ranging between 1:08an inch to nine feet.

First, in conjunction with the Arecibo Observatory used to produce images of Venus, then discovered three new pulsars (spinning neutron stars), Messier 62 in the region.

A 15 minute drive from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory is another important aspect, Cass Scenic Railroad State Park

Traces its origins to 1899 when John G. Luke, over 67,000 hectares of red in an area that developed in the city ultimately bought Cass spruceIt 'was the home of West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company. The city, the support staff necessary to ensure the raw materials to finished products, sprouted shops, services, shops, a sawmill, converting tracks, and a railroad haul wood.

The operation was instrumental Shay, Climax and Heisler locomotives steam or the like, which were delivered directly link the positive control and more power also designed so that they temporarily thick layer which tracks, steepDegrees and turns, all while pulling a load of heavy wood, just cut down. The Western Maryland # 6 to 162 tons, was the last locomotive and worse, Shay ever built. The railroad opened its first service in 1901.

During two 11 hour shifts six days a week, the city was able to mill more than 125,000 board feet of lumber per turn dry and 360,000 barrel with its 11 kilometers of pipes of steam up to a, 5 million reduction in cut feet per week and 35 million per year.Milling was produced after 40 years Cass and spruce, over two billion board feet of wood and paper.

Operational until 1943 sold the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, the Mower Lumber Company, he held for 17 years, when it was purchased and closed by the State of West Virginia, in 1961.

The railroad and the town of Cass, which remain practically unchanged, are in the National Register of Historic referredPlaces.

Apart from the historic buildings there are various other attractions. Coupled with the great Cass Company Store is the rail Topics Last Run Restaurant. Turn-of-the-century can be taken to the Historical Museum Cass. The Shay Railroad Shop, once hosted coal bins, books and offers crafts for sale. The metal construction on Cass Showcase, stored hay to feed the teams on horseback, offers an introductory film and a train in HO scale layout and the cityaccording to its 1930 appearance.

Guided tours of Cass, usually conducted in the afternoon after the trains made their daily trips, offer knowledge on what it had been to come live and work in a company town as turn-of-the-century, while the Locomotive Repair Shop tour includes visits to the Mountain State Railroad and Logging Historical Association's shop, the sawmill sector, and a look at Shay and maintenance and repair of locomotives Climax.

A trip toThe same Cass Scenic Railroad, the touring began in 1963 and is the longest running theatrical tour in the country, is a living history experience. Adapted from the original or a Shay steam locomotives Climax, homes for the passenger car Log equally authentic, buses wooden bench-like and roofs have been converted to a unique closed carriages offer reserved seating, booth sports as accommodation and is called"Leatherbark Creek.

All trains depart Cass store is rebuilt, an elevation of 2456 meters, climbing Leatherneck Run, the negotiation of 11 percent grades, switching and reverse a lower and upper curve, and arriving at Whittaker Station, a snack stand, gaze property on East-West mountains of Virginia, and a reconstructed 1946 camp registration Around eight miles to Cass lasts two hours.

A four-and-a-half-hour, round-trip 22 miles to goBack Allegheny Mountain, past old spruce and oats Creek Water Tank, twist and length of the timber Mower Company in 4842 meters before Bald Knob, the third highest peak in West Virginia.

limited editions are also spruce, a reception center on the left of Shavers Fork Cheat River offered. This train also passes Whittaker Station.

Although not connected with the Cass Scenic Railroad, located Boyer Station Restaurant, six miles from Green Bank on Route 28,offers affordable, home cooking, rustic style with wooden half-rail, train depot recalls tables and benches, train memorabilia and recording large rail model railroads. It is part of a motel complex with 20 rooms and camping.

Winter sports are an important part of the country offers the Big Mountain. Ten miles from Cass Scenic Railroad State Park Snowshoe Mountain.

Situated in the bowl shaped convergence of cheat-and BackAllegheny Mountain at the head of Shavers Fork of Cheat River, the area in 1960, in strips of trees between 1905 and previously opened already been discovered by Thomas Brigham, a dentist, North Carolina was the Beech Mountain and Sugar Mountain Ski Resorts .

Reflecting European style, is Snowshoe Village on the mountain top and offers 1,400 hotels and condominiums, restaurants, shops, services and entertainment. The 244-acre facility,linking areas Snowshoe and Silver Creek, has a base of 3,348 feet, a 4,848 foot summit, so that the highest ski resort, as in the mid-Atlantic and Southeast, 14 chairlifts, 60 runs, the longest of which is 1.5 miles and 1,500 vertical meters cuppa Run and Shay's Revenge. average snowfall is 180 cm. Spring, summer, autumn and activities such as golf, boating, cycling, climbing, hiking, horseback riding, canoeing, kayaking, skating and swimming.

Thein the extended Seneca State Forest, according to the Native Americans that had once roamed the land, adjacent to the green beer River in Pocahontas County, and contains 23 miles of forest, 11,684 hectares of forest, ride four-acre lake to boat, trout, trout perch name, and bluegill fishing, hiking tails, Pioneer cabins, campsites and rustic.

Fourth New River-Greenbrier Valley

The New River Greenbrier Valley region of West Virginia is geographically diverse and robustbeautiful.

Split the Gauley River, the northern section consists of a sturdy, built-in plateau, includes the remainder of the blue lake Summerville, while the mountain ridges are offering complete extraction of coal internal typical for the central region. Horses and cattle graze on rolling plains of companies that cross the eastern border of the plateau green, divided by the Greenbrier River, the largest circulation, the water channel in the wild far eastern United Statesthrough them. The southern region is a puzzle comb lines omni-directional and very narrow valleys.

New and Bluestone River canyon offers a wealth of climbing, canoeing, kayaking, rafting and opportunities in this region of the state.

most important characteristic 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 near bridgeFayetteville dissected, have all physiographic provinces of the Appalachian Mountains. A rugged, white water river and is one of the oldest in North America that flows north through steep canyons and geological formations. About 1,000 meters separate the lower part of the plateau adjacent. On July 30, 1998, was designated an American Heritage River, one of 14 rivers so designated.

Its park-related covers 70,000 hectares.

Signing of the New River Gorge National Park is itsNew River Gorge Bridge. Completed October 22, 1977 at a cost of $ 37,000,000, dual-hinge steel arch bridge is 3,030 meters long, 69.3 meters wide and has a 876-foot post. Are the 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. Its longest span between the arches, is 1,700 feet.

There are three visitor centers and the VantagePoints. The Canyon Rim Visitor Center, two miles north of Fayetteville on Route 19, offers exhibitions, films, interpretive programs, trails and panoramic views, while the center of Grandview Road Thurmond on Interstate 64, 25 The park is located in Glen Jean.

Fayetteville is the hub for the New River Gorge rafting and kayaking.

Coal, as a synonym of West Virginia, as the recording is one of the tourism industry should experience at some point during thehis visit. The Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine, located in the homonymous city offers such an opportunity.

At 1,400 square meters Company Store, Museum coal fudgery and gift shop serves as a visitors center and transition to the sight of two main components. A coal-bearing, the first in the 20th century, depicts the life of a typical coal-town, represented by several buildings restored and transferred.

Twisting 1,500 feet of underground tunnels in the 36-inch Phillips-Sprague SeamMine, which was active 1883-1953, guided tour "car man" driven by real miners, including the complex, the second component and regular stops in the cold, damp and dark corridor to discuss and explain the promotion of technical data Mining. The rock Duster, ensuring for example that of coal dust exploded deep into the pit. Strategically positioned pin avoid collapse of the roof. Pumps removed water. Dangerously low oxygen conditions dictate immediateEvacuation.

Coal was the world powered by steam engines for industrial and rail transport and shipping.

Phillips-Sprague Mine is included in the National Register of Historic Places.

Fifth Conclusion

West Virginia is basically three areas of Charleston, the Potomac Highlands and the New River Valley offer green beer immersive experience in the past, present through its impeccably beautiful and rich natural resources, mines and mountains, was shapedCoal, timber, logging railroads, and an abundance of outdoor sports.