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The Greenbrier River in Marlinton. The Greenbrier River is a tributary of the New River, 162 miles (261 km) long, [2] in southeastern West Virginia, in the United States.Via the New, Kanawha and Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 1,656 square miles (4,290 km 2). [2]
The Greenbrier River Trail (GRT), [1] is a lineal state park comprising a 77.1-mile (124.1 km) rail trail between North Caldwell and Cass in eastern West Virginia, United States. [ 2 ] The GRT route and its contours were originally engineered by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway , serving as a passenger and freight line before becoming unviable ...
The Camp Bartow Historic District — centered on the historic inn called "Traveller's Repose" (1845, rebuilt 1869) and the site of the Battle of Greenbrier River (1861) — is a national historic district located at Bartow, Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States.
The Battle of Greenbrier River, also known as the Battle of Camp Bartow, took place on October 3, 1861 in Pocahontas County, Virginia (present-day West Virginia) as part of the Western Virginia Campaign of the American Civil War.
This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of West Virginia. List of West Virginia rivers includes streams formally designated as rivers. There are also smaller streams (i.e., branches, creeks, drains, forks, licks, runs, etc.) in the state. Exclusive of major tributaries, there are about 46 named rivers in West Virginia.
Greenbrier County (/ ˈ ɡ r iː n b r aɪ. ər /) is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census , the population was 32,977. [ 1 ] Its county seat is Lewisburg . [ 2 ]
Knapp Creek is a tributary stream of the Greenbrier River in Pocahontas County, West Virginia.Its source is east of the community of Frost on Allegheny Mountain.From its headwaters, Knapp Creek slowly flows down through farmland until its confluence with Laurel Creek at Minnehaha Springs.
The Greenbrier River Watershed Association currently resides in Lewisburg, West Virginia, at 120 W. Washington Street. The office serves the entirety of the Greenbrier River Watershed. A second watershed, Friends of the Lower Greenbrier River , [ 2 ] split off from the GRWA to concentrate on riparian issues in the lower half of the watershed.