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 ...

Grafton, West Virginia (WV), the seat of Taylor County, was chartered in 1858 and named in honor of John Grafton, a civil engineer who helped design the route of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O) ...

FAIRMONT, W.Va. — Far from the city lights that shimmer about its mouth at the Golden Triangle at Pittsburgh, the Monongahela River rises more than 200 miles away in some of the most remote reaches in ...

HARPERS FERRY, W.Va. — It’s fair to say that almost anyone who has listened to or read the history of American folk songs is familiar with the haunting melody and words of the “Shenandoah” folk song.

The Trough is a canyon on a remote section of the South Branch of the Potomac River in Hardy County and Hampshire County in eastern West Virginia. Its steep, heavily forested walls and rocky outcrops ...

MOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. — After learning about my series of articles on West Virginia prehistory in West Virginia Explorer Magazine, Olivia Jones, an adjunct anthropology instructor who recently joined the ...

ANTIOCH, W.Va. — Throughout the history of Appalachia, one may encounter the legend of granny witches—solitary women believed to possess uncanny powers. Many served in very real capacities as midwives ...

Crosses, crosses everywhere! Or so it would seem traveling through West Virginia. Every few miles, groups of three crosses stand like sentinels along its roadways — a high gold cross flanked by two ...

West Virginia’s border with Virginia follows the summit of Allegheny Mountain from northeast to southwest for more than 100 miles. A principal ridge of a range in the southern Allegheny Mountains, ...

Clay County, WV (West Virginia), was created in 1858 from parts of Braxton, Kanawha, and Nicholas counties and was named in honor of Henry Clay, American statesman and Whig Party leader. Its county ...

SARAH ANN, W.Va. — A new entrance to a historic Hatfield Cemetery in southern West Virginia is making it easier for visitors to pay respects at the graves of William Anderson “Devil Anse” Hatfield and ...

Beaver, WV (West Virginia), an unincorporated community located near Beckley, West Virginia, in Raleigh County, is situated on Beaver Creek at the mouth of Little Beaver Creek. Formerly known as Glen ...