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President Jimmy Carter signed legislation establishing New River Gorge National River on November 10, 1978 (Pub. L. 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, and preserving as a free-flowing ...
The New River Gorge commemorated on the West Virginia state quarter in 2005. The fur trading Batts and Fallam expedition of 1671, sent by Colonel Abraham Wood, was the first recorded exploration of the river. [16] Variant names of the New River include "Wood River" and "Wood's River", after Abraham Wood.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, West Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map.
Adventures on the Gorge is the go-to place to stay and play at the edge of West Virginia's New River Gorge National Park & Preserve.
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The canyon varies from about 200 feet (61 m) in depth at its upstream end to over 1,200 feet (370 m) deep near its mouth at the New River southeast of Prince. Much of the lower canyon is traversed by an abandoned railroad bed. Today, this former railbed is maintained as a hiking trail by New River Gorge National River.
The town site is located in the New River Gorge at Kaymoor Bottom It is linked to the mine portal 560 feet (170 m) above on Sewell Bench ( 38°02′52″N 81°03′58″W / 38.04778°N 81.06611°W / 38.04778; -81.06611 ( Kaymoor Mine ) [ 3 ] ) in the wall of the Gorge by conveyors
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 ...