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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. This project is considered to be one of the worst industrial disasters in American history.
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] The hydro-electric project tunnel that passes underneath nearby Gauley Mountain was the scene of the Depression -era ...
Coordinates: 38.479395°N 81.013184°W. West Virginia's area codes (red area) Area codes 304 and 681 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the entirety of the U.S. state of West Virginia. The numbering plan area was established in October 1947 with area code 304, as one of the eighty-six original North ...
It runs along the entire length of the state's borders with Virginia and West Virginia. It was created in 1954 as a split from area code 502, and originally covered the entire eastern half of Kentucky, as far west as Lexington and Northern Kentucky (the Kentucky side of the Cincinnati area). Notably, it was one of the first three area codes ...
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 ...
This article is about the section of Interstate 64 in West Virginia. For the entire route, see Interstate 64. Interstate 64 (I-64) is an Interstate Highway in the US state of West Virginia. It travels east–west through the state for 189 miles (304 km) passing by the major towns and cities of Huntington, Charleston, Beckley, and Lewisburg.
The state of Kentucky is served by the following area codes: 270/364, which serve western Kentucky and the western half of South Central Kentucky. 502, which serves the Louisville and Frankfort areas. 606, which serves eastern Kentucky, including the Eastern Coalfield. 859, which serves the Lexington area and Northern Kentucky.
Ansted is a town in Fayette County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The population was 1,404 at the 2010 census. It is situated on high bluffs along U.S. Route 60 on a portion of the Midland Trail (a National Scenic Byway) near Hawks Nest overlooking the New River far below.