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Kay Moor, also known as Kaymoor, is the site of an abandoned coal mine, coal-processing plant, and coal town near Fayetteville, West Virginia. The town site is located in the New River Gorge at Kaymoor Bottom ( 38°03′00″N 81°03′17″W / 38.05000°N 81.05472°W / 38.05000; -81.05472 ( Kaymoor Bottom
The Ohio River Water Trail was conceived and developed by Dr. Vincent Troia, Executive Director of the Ohio River Trail Council. [5] The Ohio River Water Trail project originated in 2010 to develop a dedicated safe route for boats that provides a destination for canoeing, kayaking, fishing, small motorized watercraft, and other recreation.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Fayette County, 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 an online map.
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 ...
All of the following are filed under north side of New River, 2.7 miles upstream from Fayette Landing, Lookout, Fayette County, WV: HAER No. WV-51, "Nuttallburg Mine Complex", 14 measured drawings, 121 data pages
[10] [c] In total, West Virginia has over 1.6 million acres (6,475 km 2) of state and federal protected lands. [11] State parks and forests also feature more than 1,400 miles (2,253 km) of hiking trails across 45 areas. [10] There are state parks in 30 of West Virginia's 55 counties with Pocahontas County having the most at five.
Big Sandy Creek is a 31.3-mile-long (50.4 km) [3] mountain stream which begins in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and flows into Preston County, West Virginia, in the United States. The Big Sandy flows through Bruceton Mills and Rockville, West Virginia , before crashing down the mountainside and reaching its confluence with the Cheat River at ...
Fayetteville is a town in and the county seat of Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. [5] The population was 2,887 at the 2020 census. [2] Fayetteville lies adjacent to the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve and is directly south of the New River Gorge Bridge.