Eighteen miles south of Elkins, in Randolph County, lies the town of Huttonsville. Huttonsville sits in the Tygart Valley, where the historic Route 250–the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike–and route 219 meet. “The town of Huttonsville was named in honor of the Hutton family. Before the war the village was the educational center of the county. Until the […]
After two years of forest restoration work on top of Cheat Mountain, a new tourist train is climbing the old logging tracks to the old ghost town of Spruce, which sits nearly 4,000 feet above sea level. The forests here are returning after decades of timber and coal extraction that nearly devastated the rare boreal […]
Ed and Agnes-Hannah Friel spent part of their childhoods around the Mill Point Federal Prison camp, where both had parents working as federal prison officers and they met as children. The Mill Point Federal Prison camp was opened in 1938 for low level federal prisoners and work was immediately begun on construction of the road […]
Each Sunday in August, local musicians Mike Bing, Bill and Richard Hefner, and Jake Krack will be giving talks about the native music and musicians of Pocahontas County that inspired them. “Tunes and Tales” is a new series hosted by the CVB and local radio personality and banjo player, Caleb Diller. When Caleb was […]
This Summer the Traveling 219 Project is putting together a short tour of route 219 to some of its favorite scenic and historic sites around southern Pocahontas County for two Saturdays in August. Join Traveling 219 VISTA Dan Schultz as we ride down 219 from Marlinton in a large capacity van, stopping at and learning […]
This week’s Greenbrier Episcopal School series introduces us to the Ginkgo Tree in Lewisburg. We featured this in our last GES audio collage: A Greenbrier County Tour, and this week we are featuring GES student Alex Casto’s essay on the Ginkgo tree: Ginkgo, by Alex Casto The Ginkgo tree in New River Community College is […]
To honor the 150th anniversary for the Battle of Droop Mountain, Mike Smith is leading a series of four hikes up Droop Mountain. On Saturday, June 22nd, VISTA Dan Schultz traveled with the group, which included Chad Morrison, one of the decedents of Union soldiers who had fought in the battle, cubscouts Allen, Cage and […]
It would be easy today for visitors in Ronceverte to pass by one of the area’s most historic buildings without even knowing it. Down on Main Street sits the shell of Shanklin’s Grand Theatre, which at one time represented the heart of a once bustling little city. But interest in places like the old theatre–which […]
Allegheny Mountain Radio’s Heather Niday visited the 50th birthday celebrations at Cass, collecting memories from Cass residents and those who love this gem of West Virginia. On June 15th, a train pulled by the Shay #4 engine departed the Cass depot bound for the former work camp at Whittaker Station. On board were those riding […]
The ballad of Omie Wise has been sung many times. It has been included in Jim Comstock’s West Virginia Songbag, sung by Maggie Hammons and other West Virginian ballad singers.3 Some say that Naomi Wise, or Omie Wise, of ballad fame is actually from Randolph County, WV: I’ll tell you the story about little Naomi […]
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