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Twistabout (West Virginia), 1908 Map

West Virginia Explorer editor David Sibray peers into the forest canopy above Twistabout Creek.

Twistabout Creek in Clay County, West Virginia, appears in a 1908 map by the U.S. Geological Survey.

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