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There were 25 designs cataloged, when they were inspected in 1961. These included: bear tracks, deer tracks, human footprints, a snail or spiral, human figures with upraised arms, and a "Spirit Otter." They are within an 18-foot square section of the stone, at an elevation of 1,460 feet. [2]
Sites Homestead. The Sites Homestead, also known as the Wayside Inn or the Sites Inn, is located near Seneca Rocks, West Virginia.The log house was built by Jacob Sites circa 1839 below the Seneca Rocks ridge.
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.
In January 2008, The Nature Conservancy and West Virginia Division of Natural Resources announced they had acquired 4,584 acres (1,855 ha) of land adjacent to New River Gorge from Mountain Top Management, Inc. [3] The land, which borders the Gorge for 4.5 miles (7.2 km), was purchased by the Nature Conservancy for $1,000 an acre [4] and leased to the Division of Natural Resources.
Crumpler Mountain (McDowell County, West Virginia) 3377 / 1020 Cherokee Mountain (McDowell County, West Virginia) 3190 / 1001 New Creek Mountain: 3094 / 940 Plumley Mountain: 3078 / 938 Named after the Plumley Family and highest elevation achieved at Plumley Knob Saddle Mountain: 3074 / 937 South Branch Mountain: 3028 / 923 Big Schloss: 2964 / 903
The mine was established to develop the New River Coalfield in 1870 by John Nuttall, who correctly anticipated that the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad would be built through the New River Gorge. When the railroad arrived in 1873 Nuttall had built almost 100 houses, with 80 coke ovens, a variety of mine structures and a coal tipple on a railroad ...
The southern end of Sleepy Creek Mountain, Shockeys Knob (1,873 feet [571 m]), lies in northern Frederick County, Virginia and is shared by Berkeley and Morgan counties in West Virginia. The mountain continues along southwest–northeast orientation between the two counties and peaks again at High Rock (1,811 feet [552 m]).
In Bristol, the giants Vincent and Goram dug the Avon gorge and left their footprints. Moso's Footprint in Samoa was made when the giant Moso stepped over to Samoa from Fiji, and the other footprint can be found on Viti Levu of Fiji. It is a 1 m by 3 m rock enclosure. At the foot of the Doa mountain in Vietnam, towards the west, is a big rock.