I’m a Maryland girl but West V has been home to me since 1992, no matter how many times I’ve left, I always came back in 2010 it was official and has been a place I’m proud to raise my girls! #WVProud
I love the song, as a fellow Greenbrier county resident I feel the same way looking back. When I graduated a little over 3 years ago I couldn't wait to leave. I joined the army first chance I got and was able to travel half way across the world and back. Now I look back missing WV and hoping that one day we can come together and solve the problems within our beautiful home. I wish you the best and hope that you go far In life. Don't rush back home to quickly, us small town kids don't often get to see the world and are often trapped where we grew up. Experience the world and bring those experiences back home to make it a better place.
Thank you so much for representing us and our love for our state!!! Very classy. 🥹❤️😻 I hope you go far girl! Reach for the stars… and come back to these mountains every now and then! She always welcomes you back with open arms. ❤️ West By God Virginia… wild n wonderful. 💙💛
I'm the opposite of Anna, I was born in Florida and now live in WV. I live not far from where Anna is from. I've been in WV over 18 years and I hope to live here forever. I love WV! Go Mountaineers 💙💛!! I LOVE this song!!
My parents were from West Virginia and I thank West Virginia for being a wonderful place. Lost my father seven years ago and we took him back to West Virginia to be buried. Still have my mother and my sister. Very blessed.
My roots are in West Virginia - lived there until I was four, however, it was always my home away from home growing up. We moved to PA for my father's job when I was four. Daddy passed in 2016 and he donated his body to WVU for research. My mom already has that in place for when she passes.
The coal seams of the New River Gorge (and Glade Creek, Piney Creek, etc.) were all of the "easiest" seams to get at using drift or auger mining, hence the first seams to be mined out. I think back as a kid in the early 70s wandering around these areas and there was little trace of the mining. Even where they had stripped, the high walls had been covered over by trees and vegetation. By the age of the trees, I would guess the last mining for all intents and purposes was done probably around the late 30s.
1) the two primary seams in the gorge were the Sewell and the Fire Creek, named after those two locations in the gorge! 2) The mining started just after the Civil War. These were not the easiest, because the rank of the coal meant they were very gassy. The real reason they were mined first was the new railroad. 3) The last two major mines were Layland no 3 (as I recall) where the Fire Creek was mined (I collected samples in that mine) and a small mine across Marr’s Branch from county route 82 in the Sewell. Both were active while the bridge was being built. I was chief of a field party from the West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey Coal Resources and Pollution Potential Program during most of that time in the 1970s and watched the bridge being built from start to dedication.
@@wowbagger3505 There might have been a few small, "independent" mining companies doing some work during the high coal prices of the 70s but no large production by the big players.
If some American production company ever decides to remake the infamous British horror movie Eden Lake (2008) Thurmond would be the PERFECT place to film it!
