Description: New River Gorge, West Virginia, Images of America, Paperback Today visitors to the New River Gorge see a steep gorge filled with a lush hardwood forest. Before the railroad, the New River, with its whitewater rapids, was a barrier to trade, but with the 1873 completion of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, the gorge came alive. By the 1890s, more than 30,000 people lived and worked in the gorge. Towns like Kaymoor, Nuttallburg, and Thurmond were hives of activity and melting pots of American immigrants who dug the coal that helped build the American dream. Times changed. By 1960, the easiest coal was gone, and miners moved to Midwest factories. Nature began to reclaim the gorge. The 1970s brought a rebirth. Whitewater rafters took on the rapids, and bridge builders built the New River Gorge Bridge. The forest has returned, and if you look under the canopy, you will see that the railroads, coal camps, and mine tipples have given way to rafters, rock climbers, and mountain bikers.
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Location: Columbia, South Carolina
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Item must be returned within: 30 Days
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Brand: Unbranded
MPN: 9780738586090
Book Title: New River Gorge
Item Length: 9.2in
Item Height: 0.3in
Item Width: 6.5in
Author: J. Scott Legg, The Fayette the Fayette County Chamber of Commerce
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Mining, Subjects & Themes / Regional (See Also Travel / Pictorials), United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, FL, GA, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), General, Pictorials (See Also Photography / Subjects & Themes / Regional), Customs & Traditions, United States / South / South Atlantic (DC, De, FL, GA, Md, Nc, SC, VA, WV)
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Publication Year: 2010
Genre: Photography, Biography & Autobiography, Technology & Engineering, Travel, Sports & Recreation, History, Social Science
Item Weight: 0.7 Oz
Number of Pages: 128 Pages
