Built in 1835 to mill grist for the proposed community of Beckleyville, now the City of Beckley, the Beckley Mill was commissioned by Alfred Beckley to be operational when he arrived in the wilderness ...

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Our award-winning guide to West Virginia, West Virginia Explorer was established in 1999 by historian and magazine publisher David Sibray to provide a journalistic online venue for West Virginia ...

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At and near the center of West Virginia, the Heartland Region includes some of the Mountain State's most archetypal landscapes of hill and valley. Here at the heart of West Virginia you'll encounter ...

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Main Street in Leon, West Virginia, parallels the lower section of Thirteen Mile Creek in Mason County. Leon, WV (West Virginia), a community on the Kanawha River in Mason County at the mouth of ...

The Sinks of Gandy is a cave near Osceola, West Virginia, in eastern Randolph County, through which Gandy Creek tunnels. A journey through the "sinks" is a favorite rite of passage for many ...

A barn sits in an upland meadow at Piney View, a rural residential community near Beckley, W.Va. (Photo by D. Sibray) Coal mines once operated nearby, though the area was principally farmland. In the ...

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