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Guide to Historic Sites in West Virginia AMERICAN HERITAGE TRAVELER HERITAGE Guide t o Historic Sites in West Virginia Virginia and remain with the Union as are all located inside the 1,650-acre Northern Panhandle West Virginia. Three floors contain Oglebay Park. The visitors center, located exhibits including 13 original Civil War six miles to the southwest, features inter - Grave Creek battle flags, Gov. Francis H. Pierpont’s active displays such as a talking map of Archaeological Complex desk, and the original 1859 courtroom. the 18th-century town and a model Around 250 B.C. the Adena people (304) 238-1300 or www.wvculture.org/ steamboat. (304) 232-3087 or constructed this 62-foot-high, multiple- museum/WVIHmod.html www.nps.gov/whee level burial mound, which visitors can walk West Virginia Penitentiary atop. On the two-acre grounds is the Delf Mid-Ohio Valley Norona Museum, which contains exhibits For more than 150 years the state incarcer - about this pre-Columbian people that ated its most dangerous criminals in this 1876 Gothic prison. Ninety-minute guided Blennerhassett Island lived in northern West Virginia between Historical State Park 250 B.C. and 150 B.C. (304) 843-4128 tours wind through the first floor cellblock, or www.wvculture.org/museum/ cafeteria, recreation yard, and solitary This 511-acre island off the coast of Park - GraveCreekmod.html confinement quarters. The 600-square-foot ersburg features a Civil-War-era log cabin museum contains artifacts such as officer and the 1802 Putnam House, which can Wellsburg Historic District batons and the electric chair used to be seen on a 30-minute, two-mile narrated Founded in 1791, this Ohio River town execute serial killer Harry Powers in 1932. wagon ride. Costumed interpreters provide became a major port complex during the (304) 845-6200 or www.wvpentours.com 45-minute guided tours through the recon - War of 1812, then emerged as a center for Wheeling National Heritage Area structed 7,000-square-foot Blennerhassett shipbuilding, papermaking, and glass - Mansion, once home to a wealthy Irish blowing. The Wellsburg Wharf, a 1790s Since its founding in 1769, this town émigré family, which contains 18th-century ) served as a hub of three major transporta - S R industrial site along the river, is open for Parisian oil paintings and porcelain china. E H tion routes: the Ohio River, the National T self-guided tours. The adjacent 1794 inn, Three miles east of the island is the O L L Road, and the B&O Railroad. Visitors can A Miller’s Tavern, now operates as the Blennerhassett Museum, which features ( R take self-guided tours of the 1846 Mansion O Brooke County Museum and features tools, three floors of exhibits and contains a N E V Museum, the artisan center that contains S newspapers, and books. (304) 737-4060 or 1913 Model T Ford, Indian jewelry, Park - O R www.brookecountywvgenealogy.org/ exhibits on 19th-century manufacturing G . ersburg landscape paintings, and 19th- S N walkingtour.html life, as well as a 30-minute guided tour of I century Ohio Valley maps. (304) 420-4800 W D the 1892 Victorian Eckhart House, which www.blennerhassettislandstatepark.com E ; or ) T West Virginia Independence Hall H G I Campbell Mansion R Formerly the Wheeling Custom House P O T and headquarters of western Virginia’s Jefferson Davis, James Garfield, Henry ( M O C federal district court, this building was the Clay, and other luminaries dined at this . O T O scene of many heated debates over money 1795 home of Alexander Campbell, the H P K customs, slavery, and the 1861 vote to founder of Bethany College and Church C O T S secede from the Confederate state of of Christ leader. A 90-minute guided tour I leads through the estate’s 18 rooms and coal miners lead visitors on 40-minute outbuildings such as the hexagonal guided tours through the former opera - study, schoolroom, and springhouse. tional sections of the mine. Topside the (304) 829-4258 or www.bethanywv.edu/ 14,000-square-foot visitors center and about-bethany/historic/campbell-mansion coal museum features early mining tools and photographs. (304) 256-1747 or Fort Boreman Historical Park www.beckleymine.com This 1864 fort, named after Arthur Boreman, West Virginia’s first governor, is Hinton Historic District strategically situated between the Little This former coal and railroad boomtown Kanawha and Ohio rivers and once served overlooking the New River Gorge contains as an encampment for the Union Army’s more than 200 historic buildings in its 11th West Virginia Infantry during the Gilded in 14 karat gold, the dome of West 24-block district, including C. B. Mahon Civil War. The 175-acre site contains Virginia’s State Capitol Complex, above, soars General Store, McCreery Hotel, C&O five feet higher than the U.S. Capitol in DC. reconstructed fortifications, trenches, passenger depot, and Hinton Historic and a powder magazine. (304) 424-1976 thrived during the 1800s. Visitors can Manor. The Veterans Memorial Museum or www.woodcountywv.com see shanty boats and a working model of Southern West Virginia contains Henderson Hall Plantation of a pilot house. (304) 675-0869 or artifacts from the Revolutionary, Civil, www.tu-endie-weistatepark.com and Korean Wars. The Hinton Railroad This 1859 Victorian Italianate mansion, Museum displays conductor uniforms owned by oil magnate George Wash- West Virginia State Capitol Complex and wood carvings of John Henry racing ington Henderson, served as a manor steamboats. (304) 466- 5420 or house of a plantation along the Ohio Cass Gilbert, architect of the U.S. www.hintonwva.com River. A 60-minute guided tour leads Supreme Court building, also designed through the mansion’s 21 rooms, which this 545,000-square-foot buff limestone North House Museum are filled with original antiques, such as structure, which has been home to the Located in Historic Lewisburg and home a rosewood piano, a 12-foot gilt mirror, West Virginia Legislature since its comple - to the Greenbrier Historical Society, this and documents that include letters from tion in 1932. Its 293-foot-tall dome soars 1820 estate belonged to superior court clerk Gen. Robert E. Lee. (304) 375-2129 or five feet higher than the U.S. Capitol John North when Lewisburg was still part www.mariettaohio.org/directory/henderson_ building and is gilded with 14-karat gold of Virginia. Visitors can take a 45-minute hall_plantation leaf. Thirty-minute guided tours lead guided tour through 14 period rooms and Museum of Radio around the 16-acre capitol complex, which the adjacent log cabin, which houses an and Technology includes the 1925 30-room governor’s original Conestoga wagon. (304) 645-3398 mansion, the veterans memorial, and the or www.greenbrierhistorical.org/ This 10,000-square-foot museum features 24,000-square-foot West Virginia State NH-aboutus.htm seven themed rooms that trace the evolu - Museum. The latter contains many Organ Cave tion of radio from its invention in the exhibits, including one that simulates 1920s until the 1980s. Artifacts on display the experience of walking through For centuries Native Americans harvested include a single-needle telegraph, a mili - a coal mine. (304) 558-4839 or flint from the walls and ceilings of this cave tary generator set, short-wave radios, and www.wvculture.org/agency/capitol.html to make arrowheads and cutting tools. a 1939 iconoscope television camera. Self- During the Civil War, 1,100 Confederate guided tours lead through a broadcasting West Virginia State soldiers mined the cave for nitre, a key studio with transistor equipment, service Farm Museum constituent of gunpowder. A 90-minute room with dozens of 1940s radios, a sales This 50-acre living history museum tour leads through 2.2 miles of the and repair shop, and a vintage hi-fi room. contains 32 reconstructed 19th-century passageways, past the 90-foot calcite (304) 525-8890 or oak.cats.ohiou.edu/ buildings, including a log cabin, country formation resembling a pipe organ that ~postr/MRT store, newspaper office, farmhouse, and gave the cave its name. (304) 645-7600 www.organcave.com Tu-Endie-Wei Point Pleasant print shop. Visitors can take self-guided or Battle Monument State Park tours and see a steam-engine-powered Presidents’ Cottage saw mill, antique tractors, and a Union Museum at Greenbrier This four-acre park, located where the #36 rug loom. (304) 675-5737 or Kanawha and Ohio rivers meet, contains www.wvfarmmuseum.org Used by Martin Van Buren, James Buch- an 84-foot monument dedicated to the anan, and three other presidents, this 1835 1774 battle in which the British colonists home contains historical artifacts that defeated Shawnee Indians under Chief New River/ include a letter from visitor Robert E. Cornstalk. Visitors can take a self-guided Greenbrier Valley Lee and many 19th-century antiques. tour through a 1796 log house with period Cleveland artist William C. Grauer’s R Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine O antiques as well as see the burial site of murals of Virginia Civil War battles and N E V S Chief Cornstalk. Across Main Street is Located 1,500 feet beneath the New photographs of presidents who stayed O R G the Point Pleasant River Museum, River Park, this preserved early-20th- there are also on display. (304) 536-7854 . S N which features interactive exhibits century coal mine is reached by an or www.greenbrier.com/site/activities- I W D about the riverboat industry that elevator ride down a mine shaft. Veteran detail.aspx?cid=79 E 2 AMERICAN HERITAGE Steeped in History Upcoming Civil War Reenactments 800.336.7009 NaturesMountainPlayground.com Pocahontas and Greenbrier Counties are rich in Civil War history and heritage.
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