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Augusta Heritage Center in Elkins, West Virginia, United States, is a non-profit organization which fosters the scholarly study and practice of traditional arts in music, dance, craft, and folklore. The program started in 1973 as a summer program named "Augusta Heritage Arts Workshops" that focused on Appalachian heritage and traditions.
In 1962, The Ventures recorded the song "Gandy Dancer", an original instrumental composition that was released on their album Going to the Ventures Dance Party. Singer/political activist Bruce "Utah" Phillips, in Moose Turd Pie, told a tall tale of working as a gandy dancer in the American southwest. Phillips ascribed the source of the workers ...
Elkins is a city in and the county seat of Randolph County, West Virginia, United States, along the Tygart Valley River. The population was 6,950 at the 2020 census . [ 4 ] It was incorporated in 1890 and named in honor of Stephen B. Elkins , the city's co-founder and later U.S. Senator from West Virginia . [ 6 ]
Downtown Elkins Historic District is a national historic district located at Elkins, Randolph County, West Virginia. It encompasses 65 contributing buildings in the central business district of Elkins. It includes mostly commercial buildings constructed in the late-19th and early-20th century.
The "Tunnel of Gandy" as it appeared in the 1850s. Source: Strother's 1873 Harper's article, "The Mountains". Gandy Creek — and thus the Sinks themselves — were named for Uriah Gandy (or Gandee) who settled in the area around 1781. [2] Local settlers were certainly well aware of the Sinks by the 1830s.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
The Davis and Elkins Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District on the campus of Davis & Elkins College in Elkins, West Virginia. It includes two mansions, the Senator Stephen Benton Elkins House (Halliehurst) and Graceland, that are separately listed on the National Register of Historic Places. A gate house and an ice house are ...
The former Elkins Coal and Coke Company site is located about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) southwest of Masontown, West Virginia and 0.25 miles (0.40 km) west of West Virginia Route 7, on a terrace overlooking Deckers Creek. Built into the side of the hills rising above the creek are a series of 140 stone and brick coke ovens, formed in an undulating ...