North Hills, WV (West Virginia), is an incorporated residential community in Wood County in the Marietta-Parkersburg metropolitan area. The town is unique in that it is almost entirely residential.

West Virginia (WV) Explorer — Gallery of West Virginia photography by Rick Burgess ...

The Simpson Creek Covered Bridge at Bridgeport, West Virginia, in Harrison County, spans Simpson Creek and is a 75-foot long multiple-kingpost truss. The bridge is located just off the I-79 expressway ...

Lewis County, in north-central West Virginia (WV), was created in 1816 and named for Charles Lewis, a Virginian soldier and pioneer. Its county seat is at Weston. The West Fork River courses northward ...

Wirt County, in northwestern West Virginia (WV), was established in 1848 and named for Maryland statesman William Wirt. Its county seat is at Elizabeth, on the Little Kanawha River, which flows across ...

Pleasant Valley, West Virginia (WV), is a community in Marion County near Fairmont, located on Pleasant Run in a bend in the Tygart Valley River near its mouth at the Monongahela River. The Fairmont ...

LEWISBURG, W.Va. — Whether you believe in ghosts, it’s a fact that a ghost enters the lawbooks in West Virginia. The account of the “Greenbrier Ghost,” as the specter of the late Zona Heaster Shue ...

Few hills and hollers in West Virginia exist without a ghost around to haunt them. Mountaineers love their lore and find plenty of places for restless spirits to walk. Many such tales are based on ...

Bacontown, Battleship, Black Oak Bottom — though they no longer exist, these vanished communities are among nearly 300 towns that historian Carl Wolfe has cataloged in Raleigh County. And he’s asking ...

GREEN BANK, W.Va. — The universe is a strange place. And it is never truly silent. Across the vast darkness it whispers, in radio waves older than Earth, in particles carried on solar winds, in faint ...

FAIRMONT, W.Va. — A lesser-known encounter with an extraordinary Mountain State cryptid is still capturing the imagination of West Virginians a half century later. On a warm July day in 1968, in the ...

PINEVILLE, W.Va. — Looming above the county seat of Wyoming County amid the mountains of southern West Virginia, a “forgotten” pinnacle of sandstone more than 125 feet tall is attracting attention ...