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Inscription. Travellers Repose was the first stage stop west of Allegheny. Andrew Yeager, son of pioneer John Yeager, built the first Travellers Repose here on the upper Greenbrier River. Mail delivery along the length of the pike ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Camp Allegheny, also known as Camp Baldwin and Camp Johnson, was constructed in the summer of 1861 by Confederate forces in order to control the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike. (present... More on HMDB

Inscription. Confederate forces led by Col. Edward Johnson held a fortified camp here in winter of 1861-62. Sharp attack occurred, Dec. 13, 1861, in which the Union troops under Gen. Robert Milroy ... More on HMDB

Inscription. West Virginia, born of a nation divided, was the setting for the first campaign of America's Civil War. Although still part of Virginia in 1861, many citizens of the west remained loyal to the Union, rather than the Confederacy. ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Early in the 1800s, growing western settlement spured a push to improve transportation routes over the Appalachian Mountains. In 1822, Virginia authorized a survey of the route that became the Staunton to Parkersburg ... More on HMDB

Inscription. In August 1861, Confederate soldiers under Gen. Henry R. Jackson of Georgia erected Camp Bartow here. Fortifications on these hills guarded a disputed "middle ground" between Union and Confederate forces on the Staunton-Parkersburg ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Blue and Gray: Near here was Camp Bartow, fortified by Confederates in 1861. At Greenbrier Bridge, an artillery duel was fought, Oct. 3, 1861. Battle of Allegheny (8 Mi. E.) was fought, Dec. 13, 1861, between armies of ... More on HMDB

Inscription. (West Virginia Side): West Virginia: (Pocahontas County) "The Mountain State" ~ western part of the Commonwealth of Virginia until June 20, 1863. Settled by the Germans and Scotch-Irish. It became a line of defense between ... More on HMDB

Buffalo Fork Lake is a 22-acre impoundment located in the Monongahela National Forest in Pocahontas County. The lake is 5 miles east of Bartow and can be reached by traveling WV Route 28 and Forest Service Route 54. The lake was constructed ... More on AnglerWeb.com

'Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope' ('GBT') is the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope and the world's largest land-based movable structure. It is part of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) site at Green ... More on Wikipedia

'Green Bank Interferometer' ('GBI') is a former radio astronomy telescope located at Green Bank, West Virginia (USA) and operated by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). It included three radio telescopes of 85-foot (26m) ... More on Wikipedia