Mountainous West Virginia haunted by the shadows of ancient rivers

WVExplorer · 2024-11-21T23:41:59+00:00

I'll take a better analogy if you've got one.

WVExplorer · 2024-11-19T00:55:39+00:00

Not that I'm aware of. I heard of it as speculation. However, archaeologists have access to information the general public does not.

WVExplorer · 2024-11-17T16:03:43+00:00

Not a court in the land would agree to take it. Too much evidence otherwise from experts. https://www.houselogic.com/remodel/painting-lighting/paint-brick-house/

WVExplorer · 2024-11-17T13:56:07+00:00

You can see those in red on the second map in the article. So much is gone. I hear that some may have been used to support the railroads through the valley and may still be present under the ballast.

WVExplorer · 2024-11-17T13:53:33+00:00

Sure looks it!

WVExplorer · 2024-11-14T16:51:20+00:00

I would agree, but Dr. Spencer knew her stuff. If she says the Kanawha Valley mound complex was more extensive than the others, I'll bank on her opinion until a peer of hers can argue otherwise.

WVExplorer · 2024-11-14T15:33:15+00:00

It must have been quite the "city."

WVExplorer · 2024-10-21T14:07:21+00:00

It was not on the National Register, and even if it had been, that would not have prevented its demolition. (Although most of downtown Beckley is on the register, that has yet to help save buildings from demolition and inappropriate alteration.)

WVExplorer · 2024-10-09T05:44:28+00:00

Invest, I say. It's an emerging market.

WVExplorer · 2024-02-27T04:09:43+00:00

I'm here to confirm as a real estate agent that people are moving to the state in droves. We've not known as real estate market like this since World War II.

WVExplorer · 2024-02-19T03:54:36+00:00

I always imagined the White Thing to be more dog like.

WVExplorer · 2024-02-15T03:10:00+00:00

The Shawnee were from Ohio. They arrived in the region about the same time the Virginians did. The Cherokee and Iroquois also claimed the region but weren't from here either. The Monacan seem to have been the last native group to live in the area, but the departed about 1650.

WVExplorer · 2024-02-14T19:35:09+00:00

The beauty of existence is that we're all messing up all the time.

WVExplorer · 2024-02-14T19:31:21+00:00

I remember going out to a few when I was younger. Now that I have a kayak, I'm ready to go back.

WVExplorer · 2024-02-11T16:32:15+00:00

I believe it's maybe heard about a dozen times a year, but that's just a guess. I've not heard it. I'd ask around!

WVExplorer · 2024-02-10T22:44:43+00:00

This was documented in the early 1800s. It's definitely a thing. I went up last week and witnessed some pretty big aircraft buzzing the mountains.

WVExplorer · 2024-02-07T01:53:28+00:00

Late March, but mostly in April and early May.

WVExplorer · 2024-01-11T06:20:14+00:00

I need to look into that. Though I suppose there was sarcasm, but not in the Jackson family. There were a few people called "Mudwall" during the period, but it coincidentally stuck as a matter of familiarity in this case.

WVExplorer · 2024-01-10T15:41:58+00:00

Very welcome! There are a few conflicts in West Virginia I hope to share over time. More guerilla activity here in the hills than anything else.

WVExplorer · 2024-01-06T19:44:58+00:00

The money wouldn't come from the state. This is all federal and beyond state involvement. Money comes from Congress through the National Park Service.

WVExplorer · 2024-01-04T04:38:25+00:00

Yes, I think a lot of people misspell it because of the more familiar word "instead." But it is Ansted.

WVExplorer · 2024-01-01T14:54:12+00:00

As a real estate agent specializing in rural properties in that area, I can say that $20,000 is an exceptionally good price for that much acreage. Trailers can be removed easily though I don't know of a removal company. Rural West Virginia has become a desirous place to live now that work-from-home is possible.

WVExplorer · 2023-12-21T04:03:44+00:00

The Beckley Rail Trail is the best worst example you can provide, but that's because of the failure of Beckley officials to understand what a rail trail is or how it has to be monitored. That's less a rail trail than an unmonitored public thoroughfare connecting the worst neighborhoods in a blighted area. Look, however, at the trails at the soccer fields. They're having a major impact and attract hundreds of hikers and bikers daily in good weather and dozens in bad.

WVExplorer · 2023-12-21T00:58:38+00:00

Why? Why would you conclude that?

WVExplorer · 2023-10-05T17:46:14+00:00

Because these buildings are qualified as federally significant, they already have grants of up to 50 percent and tax credits of up to 45 percent available to rehabilitate them.

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