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The Chestnut Ridge people (CRP) are a mixed-race community concentrated in an area northeast of Philippi, Barbour County, in north-central West Virginia, with smaller related communities in the adjacent counties of Harrison and Taylor. They are often referred to as "Mayles" (from the most common surname — Mayle or Male), or "Guineas" (now ...
Chestnut Ridge, New York, a village in the town of Ramapo; Chestnut Ridge, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Monongalia County; Chestnut Ridge Park, in Orchard Park, New York; Chestnut Ridge people, a Melungeon community residing near Philippi, West Virginia; Chestnut Ridge (Laurel Highlands), in the Laurel Highlands of southwestern ...
Melungeon (/ m ə ˈ l ʌ n dʒ ən / mə-LUN-jən) (sometimes also spelled Malungean, Melangean, Melungean, Melungin [3]) was a slur [4] historically applied to individuals and families of mixed-race ancestry with roots in colonial Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina primarily descended from free people of color and white settlers.
Chestnut Ridge in winter, circa 1911. The elms of Olmsted Road, with the Chapel and South College visible in the background.. The Chestnut Ridge Historical Area contains a number of the oldest buildings on the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus in the United States, including its iconic chapel, the campus war memorial, the W. E. B. Du Bois Library and the last remaining barn from the ...
Chestnut Ridge rises in southern Indiana County and continues to the south-southwest for approximately 75 miles. The ridge crosses Westmoreland County and Fayette County into West Virginia then gradually disappears into a series of hills and finally ends roughly 5 miles (8.0 km) southeast of Morgantown, West Virginia.
In its new home, the show attracted a record audience of nearly 7,000 over a three-day run. Over the years, more than 25,000 people have seen the show. [8] In January 2010, it was announced that the 15-year run of The Passion would not be continued, in order to re-focus the resources used to produce The Passion in other areas. [citation needed]
A resident of Philippi for more than twenty years, I have known many so-called "Chestnut Ridge People." Of all that I've known, not one has ever accepted the term "guinea" as a form of self-identification. Instead, it is considered a derogatory term by most, if not all, in the community. I therefore object to the following statement in the article:
The Hatfield clan (1897). Hillbilly is a term for people who dwell in rural, mountainous areas in the United States, primarily in the Appalachian region and Ozarks.As people migrated out of the region during the Great Depression, the term spread northward and westward with them.