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Mercer County Backroad

Drawdy Creek Falls near Peytona, WV, Boone County, Hatfield & McCoy Region

An autumn morning dawns along a backroad in Mercer County near Princeton, West Virginia, in the Bluestone Region of southern West Virginia. Photo by Rick Burgess

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