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    Wine cellar among the more interesting ruins in West Virginia

    David Sibray
    By David Sibray

    One of the strangest ruins in West Virginia, those of the in Dunbar, West Virginia, hearken back to a time before the Civil War when the valleys east of the Ohio River produced some of the best wine in the U.S.

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    David Sibray
    David Sibray
    Historian, real estate agent, and proponent of inventive economic development in West Virginia, David Sibray is the founder and publisher of West Virginia Explorer Magazine. For more information, he may be reached at 304-575-7390.

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