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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 14, 1986, as part of the South Branch Valley Multiple Resource Area. [3] [5] See also
The South Branch Valley Railroad (reporting mark SBVR) is a 52.4-mile-long (84.3 km) railroad in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia.The branch line, which parallels the South Branch Potomac River, runs north from Petersburg to Green Spring, where it connects to the national rail network at a junction with the CSX Cumberland Subdivision.
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At Franklin, the county seat, the South Branch of the Potomac crested at 22.6 feet, more than fifteen feet [i] above flood stage in the shallow riverbed. [11] Sixty-two people were killed in West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, in what became known as the " 1985 Election Day floods " in Virginia, or the "Killer Floods of 1985 ...
The Trough is a 6-mile long wooded gorge carved by the South Branch Potomac River (SBPR) and situated in the Allegheny Mountains of Hampshire and Hardy Counties, West Virginia, US. The area was the site of a 1756 skirmish of the French and Indian War , known as the " Battle of the Trough ".
It originally developed as a stop on the South Branch Valley Railroad in the Trough. Wickham is located within a gap in Mill Creek Mountain on the South Branch Potomac River . One white clapboard structure remains of the community.
It directly operates the South Branch Valley Railroad, a former 52-mile (84 km) Baltimore & Ohio Railroad line between Green Spring and Petersburg. The authority also owns the West Virginia Central Railroad, consisting of 132 miles (212 km) near Elkins.
Bass is an unincorporated community on the South Fork South Branch Potomac River in Hardy County, West Virginia, United States. Bass lies along County Highway 7. Bass lies along County Highway 7. Bass was so named, by Glaspy V. Wolfe, Postmaster, on account of there being bass fish in the nearby creek.