A Guide to West Virginia

1. INTRODUCTION

West Virginia, covered with endless forests known as the "Mountain State" offers a breathtaking view of natural resources in relation to attractions, and year-round outdoor activities.

Once rich in coal and wood, was from the mines and railways of registration which they extract form, but decades later these products, their roles, led to the green-carpeted mountains secondary derivatives, namely, to walking, cycling, fishing mining began rafting, climbing,and hunting for sportsmen and tourists alike. His New River Gorge, which offers many similar activities is just as beautiful with its rugged coastline and the azure-blue areas, while the principle city of Charleston, in the years 1970 and 1980, revived, now with museums, art, shopping centers , restaurants and entertainment venues around the world-class.

2. CHARLESTON

Located in the Kanawha River, sports, and a system of easily negotiable road network is divided into the Capitol Complexand the city center to the East End Historic District, which connects the two.

From the first, which is the heart of the national government dominates the ubiquitously visible gold-domed Capitol itself. Made of buff Indiana limestone and 4,640 tonnes of steel, transport require the temporary closure of a railroad spur, the building in three phases over a period of eight years from 1924 to 1925 fell to the west wing, the 1926 until 1927 for the east wing and 1930to 1932 for the round connection. E 'was officially launched by Governor William G. Conley Dedicated to 20th June 1932, at the 69th birthday of West Virginia as a state.

Its golden dome, which extends to five feet high at the Capitol in Washington, is used in 23 ½ carat gold leaf between 1988 and 1991 as small squares of gold to cover otherwise copper and lead.

Two-thirds of the interior, the 535 000 square feet including 333 rooms divided, isconsisting of Italian travertine, marble imperial Derby and Tennessee, and the chandelier in the rotunda, his heart is made of 10,180 pieces of Czechoslovakian crystal illuminated with 96 bulbs. Weighing 4000 pounds, depends on a brass chain and 54 feet of bronze.

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 to present theState of the artistic, cultural and historical heritage, and the houses of the West Virginia State Museum, Archives and Library of the story, a gift shop and a place for cultural events, performances and related programs.

The first is a collection of items that the State is the ', country people and culture, divided into 24 scenes in five major periods: Prehistory (3,000,000 BC to 1650 AD), Frontier (1754 - 1860), the Civil War and 35th State (1861-1899)Industrialization (1900-1945) and Change and Tradition (1954 to the 21st century). The 24 ideas even traces of national development, including periods of "Coal River," "River Plains", "Wilderness," "The Fort", "Harper's 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 contribution to the state and nation with grace Capitol ComplexPark.

Culture can also at the Center for the Arts clay and Sciences, a modern, 240,000 square feet, three-level complex with 12 opened in July 2003 and is one of the most ambitious economic projects, cultural and education in West Virginia to live history. With science, visual arts, performing arts under one roof, the center houses the two outpost Discovery Museum, an interactive experience with youth as stableHealth Royale, KidSpace City, the Earth and Gizmo Factory. A 9,000-square-foot Gallery, located on the second floor, offers both permanent and temporary exhibitions, the latter emphasizing the 19th and 20th Century, with names such as Andy Warhol, Stuart Davis, Alexander Calder, Frank Stella, Vida Frey and Albert Paley. ElectricSky theater, a planetarium dome 61 meters offers daily astronomy and slide shows in widescreen. Live performances are held in two venues: the 1,883 seatsMaier Foundation Performance Hall, home of the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, but otherwise offers a variety of performance art, from comedy to folk singers, bands, repertoire, and Broadway shows, and 200-seat Walker Theater, the play functions and dances with seating for cabaret-style program songwriter Woody Hawley. Douglas V. Reynolds Intermezzo Café and three classrooms are located on the lower level.

Shopping can be done in two major phases. L 'Charleston Town Center Mall, next to the City Center Marriott and Embassy Suites Hotel, near the Civic Center, is a million square meters, the three-story complex with over 130 shops, three anchor department stores, six restaurants with full service and a food court with ten other fast food places, and is accessed through three convenient parking garage. Sporting a three-story atrium and fountain, the refined, complex Kanawha Valley was the largest urban mall eastMississippi when it opened in 1983.

The market for Capitol, the Capitol Streets and sixth in the restored and rebuilt, 1800, Kanawha and Michigan Railroad Depot, in both internal and external markets separated, the latter of which can be used only by bona fide farmers and receive daily fresh seasonal products, mainly composed of flowers, shrubs and trees in spring, summer fruits and vegetables, pumpkins, gourds, cornstalks and autumn, andChristmas trees, wreaths, garlands and winter. The covered market selling fish, cheeses and wines, and offers a number of small food stalls and a full-service Italian restaurant.

An evening can be spent at TriState Racetrack and Gaming Center. Only a 15 minute drive from Charleston, Cross Lanes, offers 90 thousand square kilometers of game entertainment venue feet, 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 corner, the New Orleans Cafe and Crescent City.

3. POTOMAC HIGHLANDS

The Potomac Highlands, located in the eastern part of the state of the Allegheny Plateau, is a tissue of different geographical regions and includes eight counties. Alternatively, the "Mountain Highlands, which had about 250 million years ago when the North American continent and Africa had produced a single collision is formed, collectedMass. Subjected to thousands caused by erosion of wind and water, led them to consecutive valleys and ribs parallel, and today the area includes two national parks: Canaan Valley, the highest in the east of the Mississippi River and Spruce Knob, at 4861 meters, the highest point in West Virginia. The green mountains has brought a lot of wood, the railways of registration to use, two major ski resorts, and a variety of sports and outdoor activities.

The PotomacHighlands in Tygart Valley, Seneca Rocks, Canaan Valley and Big Mountain country is divided.

A. Tygart Valley

The City of Elkins, located in the Tygart Valley, is transportation, shopping and social center of the eastern part of Central Appalachia and serves as a base for excursions to the Potomac Highlands.

Founded in 1890 by Senators Henry Gassaway Davis and Stephen. B. Elkins, the son-in-law and business partner, started as a hub for their expeditionThe coal, timber and railroad empire, the second the result of their self-financed construction of the West Virginia Central Railroad, whose route between Cumberland, Maryland, and Elkins stretched, and served as a threshold for some of the richest mineral in the world and timber resources.

The city, the needs of miners, loggers and railroad workers, power plants and factories sprouted expanded steadily and reached a peak in 1920, before a decline in loss of related facilitiesuntil the last train of coal and wood products with the rest of the country, the application was in 1959.

The tracks were empty and unused for nearly half a century, until 2007, when the new constitution Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad and revive their city transport, the first tourists to the scenic view and re-ride of a cycle of slow growth with following a restaurant and live theater built in his historic Elkins Rail Yard and other hotels nearby.Consistently ranked one of the country's best small art towns, was once the core service of the country of high mountains and return to their original purpose of providing accommodation, dining, shopping and entertainment services, but now a new group tourists.

The railroad is in the middle. The Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad offers three departures from the storage Elkins. The first of these, the New Tygart Flyer, "is a four-hour journey of 46 miles round trip falls throughCheat Mountain Pass Tunnel, Bowdon city and Bemis, parallel to the Shaver Fork Cheat River, and stops at the Horseshoe Falls High's Cheat, during which it is a path that serves lunch buffet. Updated table service is available in 1922-ear-Deluxe Pullman Palace cars available at a slightly higher price.

The Cheat Mountain Salamander "is a nine-hour round trip to 128 miles from Spruce and includes lunch and dinner, while the" Mountain Express Dinner Train "has collectedVia New Tygart Flyer, but it has a four-course meal in a dining car formally designated.

The Railyard Restaurant, located between the deposit and the American Mountain Theater Elkins is providing all meals on board. Emulating the same repository, with its brick building on the outside, which is $ 2,500,000, 220 seat restaurant, leased to Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad, home cooking served at the central level and high-level dinner on the second floor Vista Dome dining room, its menuInspired by car tariffs from 1920 to 1940. And toted the opening motto: "Take the title to the place with great taste."

The Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad Rails and trails is a gift shop at its root level.

Continuation of the historic red brick facade, the neighboring American Mountain Theater, 2003 by Elkins and mother RCA artist, Susie Heckel, traces its origins to run on a variety of tourists in another show in SeptemberLocation. But increased demand has gained in November 2006, an innovative 784-square-foot, $ 1,700,000 12, 525-seat facility with the help of his sister, Beverly Sexton, and her husband, Kenny, who owned the Ozark Mountain Hoe-Down Theatre Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

Opening the following July, the theater has offered family-oriented, led by Branson-style entertainment with a cast of nine members, with Kenny Sexton, as its president and producer, Beverly writing the score.evening shows include two hours of comedy, impressions, and country, gospel, bluegrass and pop music.

Davis and Elkins College is located a few blocks from the historic rail yard, shares the founder of the city of Elkins himself, namely, Senator Henry Gassaway Davis and Stephen B. Elkins. Founded in 1901, when they joined to create the country and has won funding to a university with the Presbyterian Church, was originally south of the city. His first meeting of the Board of Trusteesclasses the following year, and have been September 21, 1904 instead.

Today, the coeducational, liberal arts college, hilled on a site of 170 acres of woodland is located overlooking the Appalachian Mountains, is 22 old and new buildings in two sections to the north, in sports stadiums and the front section includes campus located on a ridge overlooking Elkins. Thirty employees and the art school, science, vocational and professional training areprovided a base of 700 students.

One of the historic building is Graceland Inn. Designed by the architectural firm Baldwin Baltimore and Pennington, the castle, Queen Anne-style house, originally a farm of 360 hectares is located, was completed 1893rd Originally called "Mingo Moro" and sometimes "Mingo Hall" after the area south of Elkins, the structure served as a summer residence of Senator Davis, who regularly delivers a train of invited friends and staff in Julyand August, so she could escape the heat in Washington and enjoy higher elevation Elkins', cooler temperatures.

The company was then renamed "Graceland" of Davis's youngest daughter, Grace. After the death of his wife in 1902, has continued to lead with sales offices in it, while Grace was living there during the summer months with his family.

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

Acquired by the West Virginia Presbyterian Education Fund in 1941 was considered a boys' dormitory of the university used until 1970, after it was closed. Restored during the mid-1990s, then again as a historic country inn and as a dynamic learning laboratory for hospitality students.

In view of the city Elkins, Davis and Elkins College campus, Graceland Inn, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, has a two-story great room richquartered decorated with hardwoods such as oak, bird's eye maple, cherry and walnut, a large scale, a lounge, a library and its original stained glass windows. The Mingo Room Restaurant, which is the original name of Villa and open to the public in four small rooms lined with red oak and fireplaces and an outdoor patio, and eleven rooms on the second floor and third, named after prominent family divided members containing 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 railroad tracks, traces, and the Appalachian mountains of coal and timber resources are inextricably linked to the city in the past - and its future.

B. Seneca Rocks

"Seneca Rocks" includes an area of the Potomac Highlands and the excesses to which the region takes its name.

Like a razor blade or back fin of a shark, and isat the confluence of Seneca Creek and North Fork South Branch Potomac River, the 250-meter-thick, 900 feet high Seneca Rocks, West Virginia Route 28, were 400 million years ago during the Silurian formed in a sandbar aboard ' ancient Iapetus Ocean. As the seas diminished, to bring the rock folded and, ultimately, the erosion wear its top and leaving the folds and jagged profile show time today.

FromWhite and gray Tuscarora quartzite, provides training in both the north and the south, with a gap between the two.

The current Seneca Rocks Discovery Center, which replaces the original visitors center, the region offers significant models, films, interpretive programs and a library.

One path leads to the Homestead Sites, part of the center. Built in 1839 by William sites as a single cabin room on the register of Seneca Rocks Ridge, is typical of that time Appalachian Real Estatetheir German-style cottage presented protocols place and corner joints v-notched cracks in part of stone and clay distributed.

In late 1860, the sons of one of the sites extended 'by the court, adding a second floor, and after use as a granary, the Forest Service bought in 1969, restoring in 1980. In 1993 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

The increased Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area and offers great opportunities for outdoor sports,contains a fundamental part of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, the mountains and forests to collect water that then flows into the Potomac River and the same bay as the cleaning and filtering mechanism forests spring clean water before it reaches the courses of water. Spruce Knob is the highest point both in the Chesapeake Watershed and the entire state of West Virginia.

Except for the detection of water, food area for humans, the first Native American who lives in stateVillages in the mountains and then logging camps and agricultural settlements, extracting its resources and the preservation of life of 13,000 years ago have emerged. Today it is home to 15 million people.

The Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area is itself part of the wider Monongahela National Forest. Founded in 1920 with an initial 7,200 acres, including the current 910 155 hectares of forest on the upper reaches of the rivers Monongahela, Potomac, Greenbrier, Elk, Tygart and Gauley;five federally designated "wilderness"-Dolly Sods, external Creek, Laurel Fork North, Laurel Fork South, and Cranberry areas very remote and primitive trail offer only lower standard and four lakes.

A mecca for outdoor enthusiasts, the National Forest offers 169 hiking, mountain biking, and horseback riding trails, covering more than 800 miles, 576 miles of trout streams, 129 miles of warm water fishing, 23 campsites, 17 picnic areas and wildlife viewing bears, blacks,Wild Turkey, the white-tailed deer, gray fox, rabbit, snowshoe hare, grouse and woodcock.

C. Canaan Valley

Bigtooth covered with Aspen, balsam fir and spruce, Canaan Valley, stretching 14 miles, is the highest valley east of the Mississippi River, its namesake mountain separated by the River Blackwater and a deep and 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 New Resort, and the nation's 500th Wildlife Refuge.

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

Core Plus, this 6000 acre Canaan Valley Resort State Park, the wetlands are 18 miles of trails, openMeadows, hardwood forests of the north, wildlife, 200 species of birds and 600 species of wildflowers.

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

Its mountains 4,280 meters, the longest is 1.25 miles and is the height difference850 feet, has a triple and two quad lifts and 11 trails for night skiing. Its activities in winter, as the extended part of the Canaan Valley ski, snowboard, Airboarding, tubing, snowshoeing, ice skating, and during the summer programs scenic chairlift rides, guided hikes, golf, tennis and hiking.

D. Country Big Mountain

County of Big Mountain, home of the highest peak of the second West Virginia, serves as the birthplace of eight rivers of green beer, Gauley, Cheat,Cherry, Elk, Williams, Cranberry, and while his Tygart-Seneca State Forest, which borders the former Pocahontas County is the oldest. An interesting range of attractions include the registration powered steam railways, observers kept the city, a leading ski resort, and the associated range of sports and outdoor activities.

The fourth and Green Valley Beer Durbin Railroad excursion 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 the neighboring county of Randolph built, and a residue of only three Climax locomotives lined up for registration, making the train two hours, round trip of 11 km along the Beer Green River and the Monongahela National Forest where Piney Iceland, where the rent "Cast Away" galley "is separated and moved in a very short runway incentive for one or more nights.

L 'the-art high-tech National Radio Astronomy Observatory is located not far from Green Bank, offers the opportunity to learn about radio astronomy.

Design, construction and operation of radio telescopes in the world's most advanced and sophisticated, it produces images observatory of celestial bodies as planets, stars and galaxies millions of light years away from recording their omission amounts radio.

The Green Bank Science Center, the heart of this experiencehas a museum, the science of radio astronomy, radio telescope, the farm, and what is experienced by them throughout the universe, the Galaxy Gift Shop, the Starlight Café, and the starting point for the guided bus tour of the plant, an introductory video and lectures are presented in the theater.

The highlight of the tour is the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) developed over the previous units of 300 meters in 1988 and collapsed in Congresswas forced to appropriate emergency funds to create it.

Dedicated to August 25, 2000, after a development period of nine years, is 485 meters high, consists of records of 2004, is a 100-by-110 feet in diameter, an area of 2.3 hectares and weighs 17 million pounds. largest in the world, the telescope full-motion computer-controlled, with a reflective surface, is functionally independent of the sun, has allowed the operation 24 hours a day-to-day and receives between different wavelengths 01:08an inch to nine feet.

First, in connection with the Arecibo Observatory to produce images of Venus is concerned, then discovered 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

Traces its origins to 1899 when John G. Luca acquired more than 67,000 acres of spruce in an area that later developed in the town of Cass,It 'was the home of West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company. The city, the support staff necessary to convert raw materials into finished products, sprouted shops, services, shops, a sawmill, a railroad and haul wood.

Operation had been instrumental in the Shay or Climax and Heisler locomotives similar to their direct link delivered interpreted the positive control and more power in a manner that bends often temporarily tracks, steepDegree, and hairpins, all while pulling heavy loads of fresh wood. The Western Maryland # 6 to 162 tons, was the last and worst, Shay locomotive ever built. The railroad opened its first service in 1901.

Over two shifts of 11 hours a day, six days a week, the city was the mill is able to dry more than 125,000 cubic meters of timber per shift and 360,000 average race with 11 miles of steam lines up to 1 , 5 million board feet cut per week and 35 million per year.After 40 years of milling Cass and spruce, has had more than two billion board feet of lumber and paper produced.

The operating systems sold by 1943, the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, the Society for the mower Lumber Company, which he held for another 17 years, at which time it was closed and purchased by the State of West Virginia, in 1961.

The railroad and the town of Cass, which remain virtually unchanged, are listed in the National Register of HistoricPlaces.

Apart from the historic buildings there are various other attractions. Connected to the Cass Company Store is the largest railroad topics Last Run Restaurant. Turn-of-the-century recording can be found at the Historical Museum Cass. The Shay Railroad Shop, once home to coal bins, provides additional books and crafts for sale. The metal building Cass Showcase teams have to feed the horse hay stored, offers an introductory video and a HO-scale train layout and the cityaccording to their 1930 appearance.

Guided tours of Cass, usually in the afternoon after the trains they offer day trips to learn back into what it was like to live and work in a company town turn-of-the-century, and the tour includes Lok Repair Shop a visit to the Mountain State Railroad and a shop registration Historical Association, the area saw mill and a look at the Shay and Climax locomotive maintenance and repair.

A trip toThe Cass Scenic Rail Road itself, tourist trips in 1963 and started doing it the long train ride more dramatic in the country, is an experience of living history. Urged by one of the original converted Shay or Climax steam locomotive, the train takes passengers equally authentic log cars, buses wood-like benches and roofs were in a closed car only offer reserved seats, sports and passive accommodation name"Leatherbark Creek."

All trains to be rebuilt Depot Cass down to the valley at an altitude of 2,456 meters, climbing Leatherneck affair, to vote 11 per cent, reversing a bend and the top and bottom, and arriving at Whittaker Station, a snack, functions view of the mountains of eastern West Virginia in 1946 and rebuilt in the registration area. Around eight miles behind Cass takes two hours.

Four and a half hours, still 22 miles round trip-upBack Allegheny Mountain, past the old Spruce Creek and oat water tank and track twist Mower Lumber Company established the first 4,842 meters Bald Knob, the third highest peak in West Virginia.

Limited runs on Spruce, offered an abandoned logging town on the Razor Fork of the Cheat River. This train also passes Whittaker Station.

Although it is not affiliated with the Cass Scenic Railroad, which Boyer Station Restaurant, located six miles from Green Bank is located on Route 28,offers affordable, homemade decorations, country-style with wooden railway between meals, train depot recalls tables and benches, trains and memorabilia recording the track and mounted a large model railway. It is part of a motel complex of 20 rooms and camping.

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

Located in the convergence of shell-like back and cheatAllegheny Mountain at the head of Shavers Fork of Cheat River, the area where the trees touched by From 1905-1960 he was discovered by Thomas Brigham Ski Mountain, North Carolina and a dentist, sugar, which opened the first Beech Mountain Resorts.

Reflecting European-style village with snowshoes on the mountain top and offers 1,400 hotel and condominiums, restaurants, shops, services and entertainment. The property of 244 hectares,what are the areas connecting the Snowshoe and Silver Creek has a 3,348-foot, 4,848 foot summit, making it the highest ski resort in the middle of the Atlantic and the Southeast, 14 chairlifts, 60 runs, of which the longest is 1, 5 km and 1,500 meters of altitude on Cupp 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.

L 'in the extended Seneca State Forest, after the Indians who had once called roamed the countryside, bordering the Green Beer River in Pocahontas County and includes 23 miles of forest, 11,684 hectares of forest, a four-acre lake for boating and trout, largemouth bass and bluegill fishing, hiking tails, pioneer cabins, campsites and rustic.

4. New River-Greenbrier Valley

The New River-Greenbrier Valley region of West Virginia is topographically diverse and solidbeautiful.

Split the Gauley River, is the northern part was built from a rugged plateau, where the calm, blue lake is surrounded Summerville, while the mountain ridges, providing ample indoor coal mines, characteristic for the central region. horses and cattle grazing is common on flat expanses Farm, passing through the eastern edge of the green plateaus, divided by the Greenbrier River, the largest, wild water channel in the eastern United States,flowing through it. Its southern region is a patchwork of omni-directional ridges with very narrow valleys.

New and Bluestone River canyon formed to offer a wealth of rock 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, all physiographic provinces of the Appalachians. A rugged, white water and among the oldest in North America that flows north through steep canyons and geological formations. About 1,000 meters from its base in the adjacent plateau. On July 30, 1998, is an American Heritage River, has been named one of 14 water courses so designated.

His association park 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, the dual-hinge steel arch bridge 3,030 feet long, 69.3 meters wide and has a clearance of 876 meters. Insert 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. His longest duration between the arches, is 1,700 feet.

There are three names of visitor centers and points of viewPoints. The Canyon Rim Visitor Center, two miles north of Fayetteville on Route 19, offers exhibitions, films, interpretive programs, trails and a lookout, while the Grand View Center is located in Thurmond on Interstate Route 64 on the 25th The park has its own Headquartered in Glen Jean.

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

Coal, as a synonym for West Virginia, such as registration, is an industry standard tourist experience should at some point during thehis visit. The Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine, located in the eponymous town, offers such an opportunity.

A 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 field of coal, the first in the 20th century, describes life in a typical coal town, passing several buildings restored and displayed.

Twisting 1,500 feet of underground tunnels in the 36-inch Phillips-Sprague SeamMine, which was active 1883-1953, guided "man cars" driven by real miners include the second component of the complex and keeps you at regular intervals in the corridor cold, damp, dark place to discuss and explain the promotion of data mining techniques. The rock dust cloth, to ensure, for example, would be that the coal dust exploded deep in the mine. Strategically positioned pin avoid collapse of the roof. Pumps water extracted. Dangerously low oxygen levels dictated immediatelyEvacuation.

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

Phillips-Sprague Mine is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

5. CONCLUSION

West Virginia three principle areas of Charleston, the Potomac Highlands and the New River Valley Green Beer deliver engaging experiences in the past, these mines through its immaculately beautiful and rich in resources and the mountains that led to the form ofThe coal, timber, railroads and logging plenty of outdoor sports.