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The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway was completed through the area on January 29, 1873, and a ceremony was held at Hawk's Nest Station. A hydro-electric project nearby became known as the Hawk's Nest Incident. During the construction of a three-mile-long tunnel by Union Carbide beginning in 1927, the tunnel was filled with silica dust. Workers were ...
A scenic view of the New River Gorge from Lovers' Leap at Hawk's Nest State Park, Ansted, West Virginia. Lover's Leap, or (in plural) Lovers' Leap, is a toponym given to a number of locations of varying height, usually isolated, with the risk of a fatal fall and the possibility of a deliberate jump.
The company changed its name to Hawks Nest Coal Company, Ltd., in 1875, and was reorganized in bankruptcy in 1889 as the Gauley Mountain Coal Company. A scenic view of the New River Gorge from Lovers' Leap in Hawks Nest State Park, Ansted, West Virginia. Colonel Imboden, who was Ansted's first mayor, helped stimulate the growth of the town's ...
Hawks Nest State Park is located on 370 acres (150 ha) [2] in Fayette County near Ansted, West Virginia. The park's clifftop overlook along U.S. Route 60 provides a scenic vista of the New River , some 750 feet (230 m) below. [ 4 ]
Lovers Leap State Park is a public recreation area on the Housatonic River in the town of New Milford, Litchfield County, Connecticut. The state park 's 160 acres (65 ha) straddle the Housatonic Gorge near the intersection of Connecticut Route 67 and Connecticut Route 202 .
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Hawks Nest Dam photographed in 2022. The Hawks Nest Tunnel disaster was a large-scale incident of occupational lung disease in the 1930s as the result of the construction of the Hawks Nest Tunnel near Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, as part of a hydroelectric project.
The retaining wall at the Hawk's Nest supports a scenic pull-out on New York State Route 97. The Hawk's Nest is a scenic overlook high above the Delaware River on New York State Route 97. It is located in Deerpark, Orange County, New York, just northwest of Port Jervis. Its name is derived from the birds of prey that nest in the area. The ...