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Castle Rock, or The Pinnacle, dominates the upper valley of the Guyandotte River in Pineville, West Virginia, where Pinnacle and Rockcastle creeks converge. Once a favorite picnic spot, the extraordinary rock began to lose its importance as coal mining took center stage in the early 1900s.
The tower on the Castle Rock ascends to more than 125 feet above the Guyandotte River.
Castle Rock towers above Pineville, West Virginia, and the junction of Rock Castle Creek and the Guyandotte River in Wyoming County in the Hatfield & McCoy Region.
Pineville is situated on the Guyandotte River at its junction with Rockcastle Creek and Pinnacle Creek. The city formerly maintained a park and bathing beach at Castle Rock, a monumental sandstone formation that rises near the center of town.
A 1927 map designated the rock as "The Pinnacle." (Source: U.S. Geologic Survey)
The Wyoming County Courthouse rises along a mountain wall across downtown Pineville from Castle Rock.
Castellated cliffs overlook the village of Rock Castle, east of Leon, West Virginia, on Thirteen Mile Creek in Jackson County, in the Mid-Ohio Valley Region of West Virginia.
Along the river at Mullens, Pineville, Gilbert, and Logan visitors may now walk streets that seem more appropriate to the industrialized northeastern U.S. than to mountainous southern West Virginia.
West Virginia archaeologists say stories that propose a non-native origin for prehistoric landmarks in the Mountain State ignore facts and dishonor Native Americans.
The Whipple Company Store, a national historic landmark at Whipple, West Virginia, in Fayette County, sits on the corner of Scarbro Road and highway WV-612, as it has since 1900. It was the fourth remarkable store built in cross-plan architecture by Justus Collins, the owner of the Whipple Colliery Co., one of the most important early mining ...