A hundred years ago this month, Confederate veterans, family of veterans, and locals from the surrounding region made the trek out to southern Randolph County to an unlikely mountain pasture that looks down into the Tygarts River Valley. In 1913, they held a ceremony to dedicate the Mingo Confederate Soldier monument to their fallen Confederate […]
Friendsville, Maryland is located about 7 miles west of route 219 in Garrett Co., off the scenic Bear Creek Rd., or 8 miles north of the route 219 intersection with Friendsville Rd, rt. 42. It is a picturesque mountain town in the river valley of the Youghiogheny River. Listen to our story “If these Trees […]
Today, driving along US Route 40 in Garrett County, Maryland, it’s hard to miss the multitude of historic structures: inns, taverns, and log cabins built in the 1700s and 1800s still proudly stand along the road, a testament to the rich history that has followed this route for centuries. It was once known as Nemacolin’s […]
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 […]
The Traveling 219 Project continues its Maryland series, at a place where US route 219 becomes part of a major interstate i-68, in the northern part of Garrett County. This also happens to be where rt. 219 crosses rt. 40 the historic National Road, the first federally funded road in the country, built back in […]
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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