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2. New River Gorge National Park and Preserve - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. Exploring New River Gorge, the country's newest national park

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   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.

4. New River (Kanawha River tributary) - Wikipedia

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   Much of the river's course through West Virginia is designated as the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, and the New River is one of the nation's American Heritage Rivers. In 1975, North Carolina designated a 26.5-mile (42.6 km) segment of the river as "New River State Scenic River", by including it in the state's Natural and Scenic ...

5. Thurmond, West Virginia - Wikipedia

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   Thurmond is a town in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States, on the New River.The population was five at the 2020 census. During the heyday of coal mining in the New River Gorge, Thurmond was a prosperous town with a number of businesses and facilities for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.

6. Wet and wild or nice and slow, New River Gorge National ... - AOL

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7. Nuttallburg, West Virginia - Wikipedia

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   Henry Ford built a huge conveyor belt system to transport coal from the mine to the river and railroad below, but sold his interest in the mine in 1928. Production ceased in 1958. [3] The town is included within the Nuttallburg Coal Mining Complex and Town Historic District, part of New River Gorge National Park and Preserve. [4]

8. Fayetteville, West Virginia - Wikipedia

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   The New River Gorge Bridge is the longest arch bridge in the western hemisphere; its creation made traveling on US 19 much easier, turning a 45-minute sojourn from one side of the gorge to the other into a roughly 45-second jaunt. The New River is one of the five oldest major rivers in the world.

9. List of crossings of the Kanawha and New Rivers - Wikipedia

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   CSX New River Subdivision (#1 Main) New River Gorge Bridge US 19: Fayetteville–Lansing: 1977 [20: Tunney Hunsaker Bridge CR 82 1997 [20] CSX New River Subdivision (#2 Main [26]) CR 25 2 (Thurmond Road) / R.J. Corman Railroad West Virginia Line Thurmond: 1916 [20]