If you’ve already listened to the Traveling 219 Mill Point Prison story you’re familiar with Ed and Agnes Friel, who spent time around the prison camp as kids while their parents worked there. Ed recently sent us these photos from a visit Agnes’ parents took to the prison camp a few years after it had […]
Found this newt along the Greenbrier River earlier in the summer. Click here to see more instagram photos!
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This old Methodist log chapel was built in 1835 on Stoney Creek in Pocahontas County. To view more photos from the road, click here!
A clear, beautiful day at Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park. For more of our instagram photos along U.S. Rt. 219, click here.
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