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Crosses at Gauley Bridge

Mount Zion Crosses above New River at Bellepoint, West Virginia

Coffendaffer's Crosses rise on an island at the head of the Kanawha River at Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, in Fayette County.

Image courtesy Mountaineer Photographic Memories

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