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Tygart Valley River

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

The Tygart Valley River races through lower Taylor County upstream of Valley Falls State Park in the Monongahela Valley Region in northern West Virginia. Photo by Rick Burgess

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