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2. New River Gorge National Park and Preserve - Wikipedia

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   President Jimmy Carter signed legislation establishing New River Gorge National River on November 10, 1978 (Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 95–625).As stated in the legislation, the park was established as a unit of the national park system "for the purpose of conserving and interpreting outstanding natural, scenic, and historic values and objects in and around the New River Gorge ...

3. New River Gorge Bridge - Wikipedia

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   The New River Gorge Bridge is a steel arch bridge 3,030 feet (924 m) long over the New River Gorge near Fayetteville, West Virginia, in the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States. With an arch 1,700 feet (518 m) long, the New River Gorge Bridge was the world's longest single-span arch bridge for 26 years; [4][5] it is now the fifth ...

4. Thurmond, West Virginia - Wikipedia

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   Thurmond is a town in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States, on the New River. The population was five at the 2020 census. During the heyday of coal mining in the New River Gorge, Thurmond was a prosperous town with a number of businesses and facilities for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. Most of Thurmond is owned by the National Park ...

5. Babcock State Park - Wikipedia

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   Babcock State Park is a state park located along the New River Gorge on 4,127 acres (16.7 km 2) wooded [2] in Fayette County, West Virginia. It is located approximately 20 miles away from the New River Gorge Bridge. Located near the park headquarters, the Glade Creek Grist Mill is commonly photographed. [3] [4] [5] It was named in honor of ...

6. Nuttallburg Coal Mining Complex and Town Historic District

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   August 22, 2007. The Nuttallburg Coal Mining Complex and Town Historic District is located near Winona, West Virginia in New River Gorge National Park and Preserve. The townsite is almost directly across from the Kay Moor mine and townsite, now abandoned. Like Kay Moor, the town is built around the railroad line at the bottom of the gorge, with ...

7. Tunney Hunsaker Bridge - Wikipedia

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   Tunney Hunsaker Bridge. /  38.064827°N 81.07707°W  / 38.064827; -81.07707. The Tunney Hunsaker Bridge (also known as the Fayette Station Bridge) is an historic truss bridge over the New River in New River Gorge, West Virginia. [ 1] The bridge is named after Tunney Hunsaker, American boxer and former chief-of-police at Fayetteville, West ...

8. Summit Bechtel Reserve - Wikipedia

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   The Summit Bechtel Family National Scout Reserve, often shortened as Summit Bechtel Reserve (SBR), located in Fayette and Raleigh counties, near Beckley, West Virginia, is one of four facilities managed by the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). The others are Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico, Northern Tier National High ...

9. Glade Creek (New River tributary) - Wikipedia

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   Raleigh County, WV. • coordinates. 37°49′47″N 81°00′46″W  /  37.82972°N 81.01278°W  / 37.82972; -81.01278. • elevation. 1,207 ft (368 m) Glade Creek is a major tributary of the New River in Raleigh County, West Virginia. Glade Creek lies within the largest side valley off New River in the New River Gorge National River ...