Old “swastika building” near Beckley still turning heads
"What can you tell me about the old building near Beckley with the swastikas on it? Was it built by nazis?"
I'm asked some version...
Study: heritage tourism economic engine for W.Va.
A recent study of the Preservation Alliance of West Virginia’s AmeriCorps program suggests its heritage tourism programming is an important economic engine for West...
Storied West Virginia monument stands forgotten in woods
Finding it on a map is difficult. Hiking to it is even harder. But on a wooded hillside at the southwest corner of Pennsylvania...
West Virginia’s endangered properties list to open year-round
There's often no time to waste when rescuing a historic landmark, which is why West Virginia's Preservation Alliance is expanding its endangered-properties program to...
Country cemeteries in W.Va. were once shady retreats
Strolling through a country cemetery, historian David Rotenizer spies something he's been looking for in the grass. "Just as I suspected," he says, crouching...
Cook’s Old Mill centerpiece of a historic landscape
It's rare that I have the opportunity to show my daughters a back-road attraction in West Virginia that they haven't seen before. They've joined...
National Park Service to unleash goats on invasive plants
This fall, visitors to the historic ghost town of Thurmond, West Virginia, will encounter more than ghosts. They'll encounter goats.
The National Park Service at...
Blair Mountain battlefield returned to National Register
Blair Mountain, the site of the largest labor uprising in U.S. history, has been added again to the National Register of Historic Places, according...
Mysterious Ferguson’s Rock becomes Beckley attraction
Questions may always surround a mysterious inscribed boulder that's the become the subject of a preservation effort for a group of historians in Raleigh...
Fayetteville insurer specializing in historic W.Va. properties
Developers in West Virginia are turning more often to preservation projects as investments, according to an insurer who's specializing in the insurance of historic...
B&O Railroad completed to Wheeling on Jan. 1, 1853
On January 1, 1853, the first train arrived in Wheeling, West Virginia, (then Virginia) on the newly completed Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, the first...
Auditorium focus of W.Va. preservation banquet Sept. 30
Charleston's Municipal Auditorium on Sept. 30 will host and serve as the focus of the annual banquet for the Preservation Alliance of West Virginia,...