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Grafton, West Virginia: Coordinates: Length: 1.6 km (0.99 mi) Area: 1,750 acres (7.1 km 2) Average elevation: 1375 ft: Created: 1938: Named for: Tygart Lake on Tygart River: Governing body: West Virginia Division of Natural Resources: Website: wvstateparks.com /park /tygart-lake-state-park /
East Main Street (US 50) at North High Street (WV 28) Romney: Hampshire County Courthouse Annex‡ 1934 North High Street (WV 28) Romney: Old Hampshire County Sheriff's Residence and Jail‡ c. 1800 and c. 1850 North High Street (WV 28) Romney: Hampshire House 1884: 1884 165 North Grafton Street Romney: Hatch House: c. 1750 Smokey Hollow Road ...
From the upper end of the lake, at Nidau, the river issues through the Nidau-Büren Canal, also called the Aare Canal, [4] and then runs east to Büren. The lake absorbs huge amounts of eroded gravel and snowmelt that the river brings from the Alps, and the former swamps have become fruitful plains: they are known as the "vegetable garden of ...
Tygart Dam — also known as Tygart River Dam — is a gravity dam built (1934-38) and operated by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in Taylor County, West Virginia, United States. [2] The dam regulates the waters of the Tygart Valley River. Its storage reservoir is known as Tygart Lake.
Grafton is a city in and the county seat of Taylor County, West Virginia, United States, along the Tygart Valley River. [6] The population was 4,729 at the 2020 census. [4] It originally developed as a junction point for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, serving numerous branches of a network that was vital to the regional coal industry.
Brienzwiler is located on both sides of the Aare River. North of the Aare it includes the villages of Brienzwiler and Balmhof (train station) as well as several small settlements, including Wiler-Vorsass and Ramseren and the peak of the Wilerhorn 2,005 m (6,578 ft). South of the Aare it includes the exclave Alp Oltscheren.
The Aargletschers, literally "Aare-Glaciers", are a system of glaciers located at the sources of the Aare river in the Bernese Alps, Switzerland.In the original German the name is "Aargletscher" both in singular and plural, as in German the plural of "gletscher" is only marked by a change of the article: der Gletscher (one glacier), die Gletscher (many glaciers).
The Unteraargletscher (German: [ˈʊntəraːrˌglɛtʃər]), literally "Lower Aare-Glacier", is the larger of the two sources of the Aare river in the Bernese Alps.It emerges from the association of the Finsteraargletscher (near the Finsteraarhorn) and the Lauteraargletscher (near the Lauteraarhorn) and flows for about 6 km (3.7 mi) to the east down to the Grimselsee near the Grimsel Pass.