Get some history with your haunts this Halloween at these five history-rich sites around the Mountain State. Weston’s star attraction, the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, constructed between 1858 and 1881, is the largest hand-cut stone masonry building in North America, and is purportedly the second largest in the world, next to the Kremlin. Closed since 1994, the 242,000 square feet of…
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West Virginia’s only brick manufacturer is still standing strong after 100 years. If you were looking to build a house in the 1830s, you had a few options. You could use limestone, the gravelly, sedimentary rock. Or you could use big American chestnut trees. But both were challenging. Limestone was heavy and hard to cut, and human activity and disease…
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With a more Arizona-like dry and hot September, West Virginia fall foliage is rolling a little late through the Mountain State, but the welcome addition of sweater weather and campfire nights has sped up nature’s color wheel in the mountains. Here’s our High Five Friday picks for Five Fun Ways to Explore Fall Foliage this weekend. From 9 a.m. to…
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Miller’s Nightmare Haunted Farm brings out the macabre. written by NIKKI BOWMAN MILLS AND JOSEPHINE MOOREphotographed by LYDIA REED Looking for a ghoulishly good time? Miller’s Nightmare Haunted Farm, located outside of Lewisburg, has been scaring the pants off visitors for six years. The Miller family has carved out 10 acres from their 75-acre farm for a freakish fall destination…
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there is no better place to have the most important meal of the day than a bed and breakfast. written by Zack Harold and Jess Walkerfood styled and photographed by Carla Witt Ford There’s nothing wrong with a plate of bacon and eggs from a greasy spoon. Just like there’s nothing wrong with a biscuit sandwich from a West Virginia-owned…
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