For one week each June, Marlinton, West Virginia lights up with the sound of fiddles and banjos. The weeklong workshop, Allegheny Echoes, attracts nearly 150 students each year to the mountains of Pocahontas County to play and learn traditional West Virginia old-time music. The epicenter of Allegheny Echoes is the Marlinton Motor Inn, where classes […]
A beautiful rainbow in Hillsboro in Pocahontas County on Monday evening. For more amazing photos from the road click here!
The 17th Annual Little Levels Heritage Fair was held this past weekend at the historic Pearl S. Buck Birthplace in Hillsboro in Pocahontas County. Events included music, an old fashioned barbecue pig roast, arts and crafts vendors, and parades through town. The fair also celebrated Pearl S. Buck’s birthday, as well as the 100th anniversary of […]
By Gibbs Kinderman: The “Traveling 219” project was inspired by the New Deal Federal Writers Project and the Guides to the States it produced. Nobel Prize winning writer John Steinbeck, who was a struggling young author when he was hired to work for the Writers’ Project, was also a big fan of these amazing books. […]
In 2013, park superintendent Mike Smith organized a series of four memorial hikes to the top of the top of Droop Mountain to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the battle. In June and July, Dan Schultz and I joined the hikers as they made their way up Droop Mountain on the first two of these […]
You can zoom in and out of this map and click & drag it to move around and explore it. Click on the different colored markers for more information on that particular civil war site. Timeline of Events in West Virginia during the Civil War along or near U.S. Route 219. 1861: June 3, […]
Today, fly-fishing in West Virginia is a big sport that attracts thousands of visitors each year to the mountain state. The streams of the Monongahela National Forest in Pocahontas County, are some of the best known for trout fishing in the region. With warmer weather arriving in spring, we decided to check out some of […]
The annual Dare to be Square square dancing workshop weekend was held in Helvetia, West Virginia this past weekend. Helvetia is about 20 miles from U.S. Route 219 at Mill Creek, in Randolph County. Helvetia is a little Swiss village in the middle of the Allegheny Mountains that also hosts one of our favorite annual […]
When spring arrives and the weather begins to get warmer in the Allegheny Mountains along U.S. Route 219, many locals and visitors grab their rods and reels and begin heading to the Monongahela National Forest. Some of the best trout fishing in the region can be found here in these cool mountain streams. Fishing has […]
Here are some photos of one of the most spectacular sights near U.S. Route 219, the Falls of Hills Creek in Pocahontas County. The falls sit just off Route 39, between Mill Point and Richwood. The Falls are an extraordinary sight in any season (including winter!), but they are literally gushing with water in the […]
Click the map to download a high-resolution copy of the Traveling 219 map, or pick up a hard copy at one of many locations along U.S. Route 219. You may also view our interactive map of Traveling 219 stories [HERE].
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