Second Creek
"This is our Bloody Butcher Corn, it's all different colors, see? It's red, yellow and purple." Reed's Mill has been grinding an heirloom variety of corn called Bloody Butcher, grown locally and from...
View ArticlePickaway
Pickaway and its surrounding area was long inhabited by the Seneca tribe of Native Americans, and their main pathway through the mountains was roughly the same route that 219 follows today. Pickaway...
View ArticleSweet Springs
"In its day a fashionable spa, one of the oldest in the South, now drowses by the roadside, lost in dreams of a glamorous past. Renowned as Old Sweet, it opened as a watering place in 1792."- West...
View ArticleAllegheny Trail
The Allegheny Trail is a backpacking and mountain bike trail that runs 330 miles along some of the most breathtaking mountaintops in the Allegheny and the Ridge and Valley Ranges in West Virginia. Most...
View ArticleSubterranean Voyage down Sinking Creek
FROM THE ARCHIVES of the West Virginia Writers’ Project, Greenbrier County: “I was plowing on General Davis’s farm in 1856, unsuspicious of being on insecured ground when suddenly the earth seemed to...
View ArticleThe McNeel Mill of Mill Point
Listen here for the Traveling 219 story of the McNeel Mill at Mill Point, which is being restored today by local resident Matt Tate, 150 years after it was first constructed in this once bustling...
View ArticleRecord Breaking Numbers of Hawks, Eagles, and Falcons in West Virginia Mountains
On Sunday, Sept 22nd, 1,591 raptors were counted at the Hanging Rock Observatory, located in Monroe County at the Southeastern corner of WV. Most of the raptors counted that day were Broadwinged Hawks....
View ArticleThe Punch Jones Diamond
The Punch Jones diamond is a 34.46 carat diamond, named after the boy who discovered it in 1928 while he and his father were pitching horseshoes at their home outside Peterstown, WV. For most of its...
View ArticleThe Case of the Mystery Coin
Last week, while archivists at the Greenbrier Historical Society and North House Museum were sorting through one of the collection boxes, this coin was uncovered. The coin, along with seven other...
View ArticleLewisburg Lovesong
This article is by guest contributor Jeffrey Kanode: Caressed all around by the eternal arms of soft blue Allegheny Mountains, with lush green farmland surrounding it from every direction, Lewisburg is...
View ArticleTurkey Drives Down 219
“You don’t see people raising turkeys now. When I grew up, everyone had turkeys,” recalls Layuna Rapp, who grew up on a family Dairy Farm outside of Frankford, W.Va. This photo is dated 1900, and...
View ArticlePanther Series: A Panther Shredded His Hat
Here is another episode in our series about mountain lion and panther sightings in West Virginia. In the early 1900s in Monroe County, a mountain lion stole the straw hat right off the head of Clarence...
View ArticleA Carriage House Comes to Union
The Monroe County Historical Society has begun the construction of a home in Union for their carriage collection. Inspired by the Greenbrier Historical Society’s Wagon House in Lewisburg, the 1000...
View ArticleFairview School: An Old Fashioned One-Room School
in the monitor community near Pickaway, Monroe County on U.S. Route 219 by Dixie Lee Hoke-Webb The two-room Fairview School was located near Pickaway on US 219, about 3 miles south of the Greenbrier/...
View ArticlePulling at the Roots of the Wild Ramp Market
photo by Mike Costello On Saturday, April 26th the town of Richwood, West Virginia will serve 2,000 pounds of wild ramps, along with bacon, potatoes, cornbread and sassafras tea. Richwood prides itself...
View ArticleJohn Wesley Methodist Church in Lewisburg
The John Wesley Methodist Church in Lewisburg was built in 1820 and continues to hold services. It is located on E. Foster Street and is one of the oldest brick churches in West Virginia. As was common...
View ArticleFarming, Love, and the Ellison Farm
Judy and Warren Ellison celebrated their 70th anniversary last year. Click play to listen to the radio story, or download the story for later. 89-year-old Warren Ellison has been farming in Monroe...
View ArticleCivil War Sites Along (and near) U.S. Rt. 219
You can zoom in and out of this map and click & drag it to move around and explore it. Click on the different colored markers for more information on that particular civil war site. Timeline of...
View ArticleCountry Music Dance Hall Takes Honky-Tonk Fans Back in Time
Down in Greenbrier County, West Virginia the American Heritage Music Hall in Ronceverte has a devoted following. The venue started as a small informal living room jam among friends and soon grew into a...
View ArticleGreenville
This article is by guest contributor Jeffrey Kanode The land is gentle and the road is narrow which leads up to the little town of Greenville, on state road 122, off of US 219. In the center of town,...
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