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| A Shay locomotive, used for logging in the mountains of West Virginia |
West Virginia, is Wild and Wonderful, John Denver sang about it. It is west of Virginia, it was part of the original Virginia territory. Is the only state that was once a part of another state (Virginia.)
When we had the other house, in Lexington, Kentucky we drove through or flew over West Virginia coming and going.
Coal mining, and hardwood timber are traditional industries. Most of the state is too mountainous for modern agriculture. And coal mining is a shadow of what it once was. There is some oil and natural gas production in West Virginia, and strangely as a spin off from that glass production. Natural gas wells that are marginal in commercial production, provide sufficient gas to fuel many glass factories. Blenko in Milton is a favorite stop of ours.
West Virginia is a very pretty place to visit, a very difficult place to earn a living.
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