FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. — What began as a search for an affordable retirement option has turned into one of southern West Virginia’s most imaginative tourism ventures. Nate Adams and his ...

Coalton, West Virginia (WV), is a community in northern Randolph County incorporated in 1895 as Womelsdorff and named after O. C. Womelsdorff, the first coal mine operator in the community. The ...

Lubeck, West Virginia (WV), is a community in rural Wood County south and east of the Ohio River. The town is a bedroom community of Parkersburg and Marietta. Though first named Watertown, postmaster ...

The Metro Valley Region of western West Virginia follows the Ohio and Kanawha rivers and their tributaries through a landscape of farms, cities, and wooded hills. Two of the largest cities in West ...

Fort Gay, WV (West Virginia), a community on the Big Sandy River in Wayne County, was chartered in 1875 as “Cassville.” Its name was changed to Fort Gay in 1932 to commemorate the location of Fort ...

Nichols Knob in southern Roane County north of Clio, West Virginia, is a rocky prominence on Vineyard Ridge comprised of several house-sized boulders. The knob rises to 1,230 feet above sea level and ...

Peterstown, West Virginia (WV), a community in Monroe County, was incorporated in 1892 and named for Christian Peters, a Revolutionary War soldier who founded the town shortly after the Revolutionary ...

HINTON, W.Va. — Deep in a forested gorge where the Bluestone River winds, the lost village of “Lilly” was among southern West Virginia’s first frontier communities. The landscape today only hints at a ...

SUMMERSVILLE, W.Va. — In a ravine beside the U.S. 19 expressway near Summersville Lake, 48 graves lie beneath the trees, marked by small stones. Paddlers and kayakers by the hundreds walk past on ...

In the late 1990s, I was asked to pen a book of West Virginia folklore. I opted instead to create my own tales based on local legends, but other legends are more closely grounded in the soil of West ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Gov. Jim Justice has announced the allocation of funds for 61 outdoor recreation projects across West Virginia, banking on recreation efforts in 34 counties, including nearly 700 ...

LEWISBURG, W.Va. — Whether you believe in ghosts, it’s a fact that a ghost enters the lawbooks in West Virginia. The account of the “Greenbrier Ghost,” as the specter of the late Zona Heaster Shue ...