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Advocates Push For Rail Trails To Connect State’s Tourism Economy
West Virginia has more than 500 miles of rail trails. The state is poised to get increased funding from recent federal legislation to build more.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsW.Va. Water Trails: Rebuilding Buffalo Creek’s Identity
Residents along Buffalo Creek have been cleaning up and rebuilding for 50 years after a coal slurry dam broke and wiped out 16 communities. Now there’s a new generation that’s continuing this work, in their own way.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsBuffalo Creek Showing Signs Of New Life, 49 Years After Sludge Spill
Today is the 49th anniversary of one of the worst mining catastrophes in West Virginia history, the Buffalo Creek Disaster. More than 100 people died in southern West Virginia when a dam failed.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsFebruary 26, 1972: Coal Mining Dam Collapses in Buffalo Creek
On February 26, 1972, a coal mining dam collapsed at the head of Buffalo Creek in Logan County. Over the next three hours, 132-million gallons of black…
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Mural, Documentary Remember Buffalo Creek Disaster
West Virginia's 1972 Buffalo Creek disaster is being remembered in a mural.Canadian artist Kevin Ledo began work on the mural Tuesday. His canvas is the…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsStream-Restoration Project Breathes New Life Into Buffalo Creek
The site of a 1972 disaster along Logan County's Buffalo Creek is having new life breathed into it. Buffalo Creek is rapidly becoming one of southern West…
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