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The house at Traveller's Rest, near Kearneysville, is West Virginia's sole plantation house designated as a National Historic Landmark for its national-level historical significance. As of 2015, the majority of West Virginia's plantation houses remain under private ownership.
The Justice family, headed by patriarch Jim Justice, has extensive farm and mining [23] operations in West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. It farms 50,000 acres (200 km 2) through its Justice Family Farms group, headquartered in Beckley, West Virginia.
The UMW represents West Virginia coal miners and endorsed Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) in the 2018 United States Senate election in West Virginia. [36] In 2021 the union urged him to revisit his opposition to President Biden's Build Back Better Plan , noting that the bill includes an extension of a fund that provides benefits to coal miners suffering ...
Coal miners from West Virginia – whom locals have lovingly dubbed the “West Virginia Boys” – moved a mountain in just three days to reopen a 2.7-mile stretch of Highway 64 between Bat Cave ...
The Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) is a natural gas pipeline constructed from northwestern West Virginia to southern Virginia. The MVP is 303 miles (488 km) long, and there is also a proposed Southgate Extension which will run 75 miles (121 km) from Virginia into North Carolina. [1]
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William Madison Peyton (September 4, 1804 [1] – February 16, 1868) was a Virginia lawyer, politician and slave owner who began developing what would become the coal country of Virginia and West Virginia in the 1840s. Peyton sympathized with the Confederate States of America and died financially ruined shortly after the war's end. [2] [3]
The activation of 743 broke seven-digit dialing throughout the I-85 Corridor in North Carolina; Charlotte and the Triangle had already been overlaid. Permissive dialing began on October 24, 2015, and continued until April 23, 2016, when ten-digit dialing became mandatory. The first numbers with a 743 area code were issued in May 2016.