Qualla: The Midwest & Great Lakes https://qualla.com/midwest en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:02 GMT Qualla episodic false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: The Midwest & Great Lakes https://qualla.com/midwest Big Stone Gap, Virginia https://qualla.com/big-stone-gap-virginia/ Photo credit KJPurscell, CC BY-SA 3.0. A coalfield town that John Fox Jr. made famous, where Elizabeth Taylor once choked on a chicken bone and the lonesome pine still stands in popular memory.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/1/big-stone-gap-virginia-wp/dnt1-big-stone-gap-virginia-combined.mp3 4:25 full A. P. and Sara Carter House https://qualla.com/a-p-and-sara-carter-house/ Photo credit Nyttend, Public domain. The Maces Spring frame house where A.P. and Sara Carter raised their family while reshaping American music.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/2/a-p-and-sara-carter-house-wp/dnt2-a-p-and-sara-carter-house-combined.mp3 3:18 full A. P. Carter Homeplace https://qualla.com/a-p-carter-homeplace/ Photo credit Swampyank, CC BY-SA 4.0. The half-dovetailed log cabin where A.P. Carter was born in 1891 - now relocated to stand beside the Carter Family Fold.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/2/a-p-carter-homeplace-wp/dnt2-a-p-carter-homeplace-combined.mp3 3:06 full A. P. Carter Store https://qualla.com/a-p-carter-store/ Photo credit Swampyank, CC BY-SA 4.0. The 1945 country store A.P. Carter built after he stopped recording - now the Carter Family Museum.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/2/a-p-carter-store-wp/dnt2-a-p-carter-store-combined.mp3 2:59 full Carter Family Fold https://qualla.com/carter-family-fold/ Photo credit Swampyank, CC BY-SA 4.0. An 842-seat concert venue in Poor Valley where the daughter of A.P. and Sara Carter kept the family's music alive - and where Johnny Cash gave his last public performance.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/2/carter-family-fold-wp/dnt2-carter-family-fold-combined.mp3 4:10 full Scott County, Virginia https://qualla.com/scott-county-virginia/ Photo credit Skye Marthaler, CC BY-SA 3.0. A far-southwestern Virginia county on the Tennessee line, where Daniel Boone built forts, the Wilderness Road carried settlers west, and the Carter Family invented country music.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/2/scott-county-virginia-wp/dnt2-scott-county-virginia-combined.mp3 4:52 full Bad Branch Falls State Nature Preserve https://qualla.com/bad-branch-falls-state-nature-preserve/ Photo credit J654567, CC BY-SA 3.0. A 2,639-acre sandstone gorge cut into the face of Pine Mountain, where a 60-foot waterfall spills through some of Kentucky's most biologically rich forest.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/4/bad-branch-falls-state-nature-preserve-wp/dnt4-bad-branch-falls-state-nature-preserve-combined.mp3 4:11 full Wise County, Virginia https://qualla.com/wise-county-virginia/ Photo credit J654567, CC BY-SA 3.0. A Virginia coal county that produced George C. Scott, Napoleon Hill, and Ralph Stanley - and holds two of the commonwealth's highest-security prisons.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/4/wise-county-virginia-wp/dnt4-wise-county-virginia-combined.mp3 5:23 full Letcher County, Kentucky https://qualla.com/letcher-county-kentucky/ Photo credit J654567, CC BY-SA 4.0. An eastern Kentucky coal county whose disasters - the 1976 Scotia Mine explosions, the 2022 Appalachian floods, the 2024 courthouse murder - keep reshaping it.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/5/letcher-county-kentucky-wp/dnt5-letcher-county-kentucky-combined.mp3 6:28 full Pittston Coal Strike https://qualla.com/pittston-coal-strike/ Photo credit AFL-CIO, CC BY 2.0. When a coal company stopped paying for retired miners' health care, 2,000 workers and their families turned a hollow in southwest Virginia into Camp Solidarity and held the line for ten months.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/7/pittston-coal-strike-wp/dnt7-pittston-coal-strike-combined.mp3 4:28 full Abingdon Historic District https://qualla.com/abingdon-historic-district/ Photo credit Steven C. Price, CC BY-SA 3.0. A half-mile of Main Street in southwest Virginia preserves 145 contributing buildings, a Greek Revival church, the longest-running professional theater in America, and a hotel built as a private home for nine Preston children.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/8/abingdon-historic-district-wp/dnt8-abingdon-historic-district-combined.mp3 4:00 full Abingdon, Virginia https://qualla.com/abingdon-virginia/ Photo credit Adamster524, CC BY-SA 2.0. A town built on the Wolf Hill tract in 1778, where Daniel Boone hunted, the Overmountain Men mustered to march toward Kings Mountain, and a young actor named Gregory Peck once worked for his supper at the Barter Theatre.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/8/abingdon-virginia-wp/dnt8-abingdon-virginia-combined.mp3 4:09 full Bristol, Virginia https://qualla.com/bristol-virginia/ Photo credit Nyttend, Public domain. Where two states share a single Main Street, country music was born in a 1927 recording session, and a 50-dollar paycheck to A.P. Carter and his family launched an entire genre.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/8/bristol-virginia-wp/dnt8-bristol-virginia-combined.mp3 4:05 full King-Lancaster-McCoy-Mitchell House https://qualla.com/king-lancaster-mccoy-mitchell-house/ Photo credit Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD, CC BY-SA 4.0. The oldest building in Bristol started as a brick farmhouse on a meadow called Kings Meadows in 1820, hosted Andrew Jackson, and stayed in the Mitchell family for more than a century when a young man's vow came true.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/8/king-lancaster-mccoy-mitchell-house-wp/dnt8-king-lancaster-mccoy-mitchell-house-combined.mp3 4:16 full Virginia Intermont College https://qualla.com/virginia-intermont-college/ Photo credit Nyttend, Public domain. A women's college that opened in 1884, won three straight NAIA cross-country titles in the 2000s, closed in 2014 after 130 years, and burned to the ground a decade later on a December morning.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/8/virginia-intermont-college-wp/dnt8-virginia-intermont-college-combined.mp3 4:29 full Washington County, Virginia https://qualla.com/washington-county-virginia/ Photo credit RebelAt at English Wikipedia, CC BY 2.5. Carved out of frontier Fincastle County in 1776 and named for a sitting general fighting a war he might still lose, this county at the top of the Holston Valley has been Virginia's southwestern doorstep for two and a half centuries.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/8/washington-county-virginia-wp/dnt8-washington-county-virginia-combined.mp3 4:18 full Emory and Henry University https://qualla.com/emory-and-henry-university/ Photo credit Jediah999, CC BY-SA 3.0. The oldest college in Southwest Virginia, founded by Methodists in 1836, where Wiley Hall served as a Confederate hospital, J.E.B. Stuart enrolled as a teenager, and Frank Rowlett cracked the Japanese diplomatic code.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/c/emory-and-henry-university-wp/dntc-emory-and-henry-university-combined.mp3 4:37 full Alice Lloyd College https://qualla.com/alice-lloyd-college/ Photo credit Nyttend, Public domain. A journalist from Cambridge, Massachusetts and a teacher from New York arrived in a Kentucky hollow in 1916 and started a school that today guarantees free tuition to students from 108 Appalachian counties who agree to do 160 hours of work each semester.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/h/alice-lloyd-college-wp/dnth-alice-lloyd-college-combined.mp3 4:32 full Big Sandy Expedition https://qualla.com/big-sandy-expedition/ In the autumn of 1861, a Union general called Bull Nelson marched five thousand Ohio and Kentucky volunteers up the Big Sandy Valley in mud and rain, fought a Confederate force entrenched on a thousand-foot hogback, and won by rolling boulders down the hill.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/j/big-sandy-expedition-wp/dntj-big-sandy-expedition-combined.mp3 4:45 full Breaks Interstate Park https://qualla.com/breaks-interstate-park/ Photo credit Bpluke01, CC BY-SA 4.0. Daniel Boone gave this Appalachian gorge its name in 1767 - and locals have called it the Grand Canyon of the South ever since.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/k/breaks-interstate-park-wp/dntk-breaks-interstate-park-combined.mp3 4:59 full Pikeville, Kentucky https://qualla.com/pikeville-kentucky/ Photo credit Doc Searls, CC BY 2.0. The town that moved a mountain to save itself, deep in the country where the Hatfields and McCoys fought their famous feud.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/m/pikeville-kentucky-wp/dntm-pikeville-kentucky-combined.mp3 5:49 full University of Pikeville https://qualla.com/university-of-pikeville/ Photo credit Epling-media, CC BY-SA 4.0. A small Presbyterian college on a hillside in coal country that quietly became one of the three medical schools in Kentucky.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/m/university-of-pikeville-wp/dntm-university-of-pikeville-combined.mp3 5:19 full Prestonsburg, Kentucky bus crash https://qualla.com/prestonsburg-kentucky-bus-crash/ Photo credit Nyttend, Public domain. On a cold February morning in 1958, a school bus on U.S. 23 went into the flooded Levisa Fork. Twenty-six children and their driver did not come home.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/n/prestonsburg-kentucky-bus-crash-wp/dntn-prestonsburg-kentucky-bus-crash-combined.mp3 5:59 full Johnson County, Kentucky https://qualla.com/johnson-county-kentucky/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. J654567 assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0. U.S. 23 runs through here - the highway country music historians call the Country Music Highway, where Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gayle and Chris Stapleton all grew up within a few hollers of each other.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/p/johnson-county-kentucky-wp/dntp-johnson-county-kentucky-combined.mp3 5:39 full Paintsville, Kentucky https://qualla.com/paintsville-kentucky/ Photo credit J654567, CC BY-SA 3.0. Named for the tribal art Shawnee hunters painted on debarked trees by the salt lick. Loretta Lynn grew up just up the holler.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/p/paintsville-kentucky-wp/dntp-paintsville-kentucky-combined.mp3 6:08 full Martin County coal slurry spill https://qualla.com/martin-county-coal-slurry-spill/ Just after midnight on October 11, 2000, the bottom dropped out of a Massey Energy coal slurry pond. 306 million gallons. About 28 times the Exxon Valdez. The water in 27,000 homes turned black.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/r/martin-county-coal-slurry-spill-wp/dntr-martin-county-coal-slurry-spill-combined.mp3 6:16 full 2002 Appalachian School of Law shooting https://qualla.com/2002-appalachian-school-of-law-shooting/ On January 16, 2002, three people died at a small law school in Grundy, Virginia: Dean Anthony Sutin, Professor Thomas Blackwell, and first-year student Angela Dales.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/s/2002-appalachian-school-of-law-shooting-wp/dnts-2002-appalachian-school-of-law-shooting-combined.mp3 5:48 full Appalachian School of Law https://qualla.com/appalachian-school-of-law/ Photo credit Tburgess68, CC BY-SA 3.0. A small private law school in a Grundy, Virginia coal town, founded with a Latin motto: From the rock of truth, justice arises.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/s/appalachian-school-of-law-wp/dnts-appalachian-school-of-law-combined.mp3 5:32 full Buchanan County, Virginia https://qualla.com/buchanan-county-virginia/ Photo credit SheepNotGoats (Talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. The only county in Virginia that touches both Kentucky and West Virginia - so far back in the mountains that locals pronounce its name differently from the president it was named for.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/s/buchanan-county-virginia-wp/dnts-buchanan-county-virginia-combined.mp3 5:57 full War, West Virginia https://qualla.com/war-west-virginia/ Photo credit Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0. The smallest city in West Virginia carries a name shared by no other place in America, and a history of coal that built it and a slow ebb that has nearly emptied it.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/u/war-west-virginia-wp/dntu-war-west-virginia-combined.mp3 4:01 full Welch, West Virginia https://qualla.com/welch-west-virginia/ Photo credit Department of the Interior. Solid Fuels Administration For War. 4/19/1943-6/30/1947, Public domain. Once called "The Heart of the Nation's Coal Bin," Welch built the country's first municipal parking garage, hosted the first federal food stamps, and watched the coalfield empty around it.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/u/welch-west-virginia-wp/dntu-welch-west-virginia-combined.mp3 4:46 full Matewan Historic District https://qualla.com/matewan-historic-district/ Photo credit Coal town guy, CC BY-SA 4.0. On May 19, 1920, ten men died on these two streets in a shootout between coal miners, a sympathetic mayor and police chief, and the company detectives sent to break a strike.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/w/matewan-historic-district-wp/dntw-matewan-historic-district-combined.mp3 4:21 full Mingo County, West Virginia https://qualla.com/mingo-county-west-virginia/ Photo credit Badagnani at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. West Virginia's youngest county, carved from secessionist Logan County in 1895, holds the Tug Fork border with Kentucky, the town of Matewan, and a labor and political history as steep as its hills.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/w/mingo-county-west-virginia-wp/dntw-mingo-county-west-virginia-combined.mp3 4:26 full Logan County, West Virginia https://qualla.com/logan-county-west-virginia/ Photo credit Brian Stansberry, CC BY 4.0. Named for a Mingo chief who lost his family to settler violence, Logan County is the heart of the southern West Virginia coalfield and the site of the Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest armed labor uprising in American history.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/x/logan-county-west-virginia-wp/dntx-logan-county-west-virginia-combined.mp3 4:40 full Mingo Oak https://qualla.com/mingo-oak/ Photo credit Celticchrys, CC BY-SA 3.0. For roughly 582 years the world's largest and oldest white oak stood in a Mingo County cove until the sulfur fumes of a burning coal spoil tip killed it in 1938.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/x/mingo-oak-wp/dntx-mingo-oak-combined.mp3 4:44 full Aracoma Alma Mine accident https://qualla.com/aracoma-alma-mine-accident/ On January 19, 2006, a conveyor-belt fire in a Massey Energy mine near Melville, West Virginia, killed Don Bragg and Ellery Hatfield after smoke poured into an escape route through two missing ventilation walls.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/z/aracoma-alma-mine-accident-wp/dntz-aracoma-alma-mine-accident-combined.mp3 4:07 full Kentucky Appalachians https://qualla.com/kentucky-appalachians/ Photo credit Tim Kiser (w:User:Malepheasant), CC BY-SA 3.0 us. The mountains that gave America Loretta Lynn, Chris Stapleton, and a poet laureate who wrote about hill country with the precision of a botanist.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/0/kentucky-appalachians-wk/dnv0-kentucky-appalachians-combined.mp3 4:31 full Yatesville Lake https://qualla.com/yatesville-lake/ Photo credit Buaidh, CC BY-SA 4.0. A serpentine reservoir on Blaine Creek where a 19th-century cabin and an oil well exhibit remember the valley that the lake covered up.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/0/yatesville-lake-wp/dnv0-yatesville-lake-combined.mp3 4:43 full Fred M. Vinson Museum and Welcome Center https://qualla.com/fred-m-vinson-museum-and-welcome-center/ Photo credit Nyttend, Public domain. The jailer's house in Louisa, Kentucky where a future Chief Justice of the United States was born above the cells his father supervised.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/2/fred-m-vinson-museum-and-welcome-center-wp/dnv2-fred-m-vinson-museum-and-welcome-center-combined.mp3 4:04 full Beech Fork State Park https://qualla.com/beech-fork-state-park/ Photo credit User:Youngamerican and touched up by User:WVhybrid, CC BY-SA 3.0. A 1970s recreation area built around an Army Corps flood-control lake where electric trolling motors enforce a particular kind of quiet.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/3/beech-fork-state-park-wp/dnv3-beech-fork-state-park-combined.mp3 4:33 full 1993 East Carter High School Shooting https://qualla.com/1993-east-carter-high-school-shooting/ An English teacher and a head custodian were killed in a Grayson, Kentucky classroom in 1993 - one of the early American school shootings that did not yet feel like a pattern.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/4/1993-east-carter-high-school-shooting-wp/dnv4-1993-east-carter-high-school-shooting-combined.mp3 5:03 full Ashland, Kentucky https://qualla.com/ashland-kentucky/ Photo credit Augiejv, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Ohio River steel town that raised Billy Ray Cyrus, Naomi Judd, and Ashley Judd, and still throws a Fourth of July weekend party that draws three states.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/4/ashland-kentucky-wk/dnv4-ashland-kentucky-combined.mp3 4:51 full Congregation Agudath Achim https://qualla.com/congregation-agudath-achim-ashland-kentucky/ An Eastern European Jewish congregation that built a synagogue in steel-town Kentucky in 1938, closed in 1986, and spent its last twelve years hoping enough Jews would return to start again.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/4/congregation-agudath-achim-ashland-kentucky-wp/dnv4-congregation-agudath-achim-ashland-kentucky-combined.mp3 5:14 full Greenbo Lake State Resort Park https://qualla.com/greenbo-state-resort-park/ A 3,600-acre park born from a 1948 fishing trip, with a fieldstone lodge named for poet Jesse Stuart and a lake that has produced two state-record largemouth bass.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/4/greenbo-state-resort-park-wk/dnv4-greenbo-state-resort-park-combined.mp3 5:13 full Highlands Museum and Discovery Center https://qualla.com/highlands-museum-and-discovery-center/ Photo credit J654567, CC BY-SA 3.0. A combined heritage center and children's science museum housed in an old Ashland department store, with exhibits on the Eastern Kentucky coalfields.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/4/highlands-museum-and-discovery-center-wp/dnv4-highlands-museum-and-discovery-center-combined.mp3 5:04 full Mayo Mansion https://qualla.com/mayo-mansion-ashland-kentucky/ A 17,000-square-foot Beaux-Arts house in Ashland, Kentucky, built by remodeling around World War I rationing rules - and finished with marble pulled out of the owner's other mansion in Paintsville.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/4/mayo-mansion-ashland-kentucky-wp/dnv4-mayo-mansion-ashland-kentucky-combined.mp3 5:10 full Paramount Arts Center https://qualla.com/paramount-arts-center/ Photo credit Antony-22, CC BY-SA 4.0. A 1931 Rapp and Rapp movie palace that survived the Depression, hosted Billy Ray Cyrus's Achy Breaky Heart video, and still claims a friendly ghost named Joe.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/4/paramount-arts-center-wp/dnv4-paramount-arts-center-combined.mp3 5:30 full Ironton, Ohio https://qualla.com/ironton-ohio/ Photo credit Vasiliymeshko, CC BY 4.0. The Ohio River town that forged iron for the USS Monitor, helped enslaved people escape on the Underground Railroad, and accidentally invented the NFL's Thanksgiving Day game.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/5/ironton-ohio-wp/dnv5-ironton-ohio-combined.mp3 5:43 full Jesse Stuart Memorial Bridge https://qualla.com/jesse-stuart-memorial-bridge/ Photo credit Vbofficial, Public domain. A 1984 viaduct bridge built directly on top of the Greenup Lock and Dam, naming a road crossing for the Kentucky poet laureate whose hills it leaves.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/5/jesse-stuart-memorial-bridge-wp/dnv5-jesse-stuart-memorial-bridge-combined.mp3 4:44 full 2022 Huntington High School Walkouts https://qualla.com/2022-huntington-high-school-walkouts/ A Jewish student asked to leave a mandatory Christian revival assembly in West Virginia, was refused, and the resulting student-led walkouts became a national Establishment Clause case.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/6/2022-huntington-high-school-walkouts-wp/dnv6-2022-huntington-high-school-walkouts-combined.mp3 5:11 full Big Dipper at Camden Park https://qualla.com/big-dipper-camden-park/ A 1958 wooden roller coaster in Huntington, West Virginia - the largest and oldest in the state, and one of only three surviving National Amusement Devices coasters anywhere.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/6/big-dipper-camden-park-wp/dnv6-big-dipper-camden-park-combined.mp3 4:52 full Camden Park https://qualla.com/camden-park-amusement-park/ One of thirteen surviving trolley parks in the United States, founded in 1903 by an interurban railway company and still run by the family that bought it from the trolleys.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/6/camden-park-amusement-park-wp/dnv6-camden-park-amusement-park-combined.mp3 5:25 full Camden Park Mound https://qualla.com/camden-park-mound/ Photo credit Heironymous Rowe (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. An Adena culture burial mound, two thousand years old, sitting at the center of a working West Virginia amusement park - the third-largest such mound in the state.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/6/camden-park-mound-wp/dnv6-camden-park-mound-combined.mp3 5:18 full Carnegie Public Library, Huntington https://qualla.com/carnegie-public-library-huntington-west-virginia/ Photo credit Wv funnyman, CC BY-SA 4.0. Huntington's 1903 Carnegie library, where a Union soldier statue vanished from the front lawn in 1915 amid controversy over a planned Confederate monument and was never seen again.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/6/carnegie-public-library-huntington-west-virginia-wp/dnv6-carnegie-public-library-huntington-west-virginia-combined.mp3 5:20 full Catlettsburg, Kentucky https://qualla.com/catlettsburg-kentucky/ Photo credit Tim Kiser (w:User:Malepheasant), CC BY-SA 3.0 us. The Boyd County seat at the mouth of the Big Sandy River, once the largest hardwood timber market in the world - and home to the clown who revamped Ronald McDonald.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/6/catlettsburg-kentucky-wp/dnv6-catlettsburg-kentucky-combined.mp3 6:17 full Catlettsburg Refinery https://qualla.com/catlettsburg-refinery/ Photo credit Vbofficial, Public domain. A 650-acre oil refinery on the Big Sandy River that processes more than 291,000 barrels of crude a day - the industrial heart of the Ashland-Huntington corridor.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/6/catlettsburg-refinery-wp/dnv6-catlettsburg-refinery-combined.mp3 5:21 full Douglass Junior and Senior High School https://qualla.com/douglass-junior-and-senior-high-school/ Photo credit Youngamerican (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. Huntington's segregation-era school for African American students - the institution that educated NBA Hall of Famer Hal Greer and historian Carter G. Woodson, founder of Black History Month.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/6/douglass-junior-and-senior-high-school-wp/dnv6-douglass-junior-and-senior-high-school-combined.mp3 5:23 full Downtown Huntington Historic District https://qualla.com/downtown-huntington-historic-district/ Photo credit Wv funnyman, CC BY-SA 4.0. A 112-building National Register district that preserves the commercial heart of a Gilded Age railroad city - including an opera house from 1885 and a 1928 movie palace still in use.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/6/downtown-huntington-historic-district-wp/dnv6-downtown-huntington-historic-district-combined.mp3 5:30 full Guyandotte https://qualla.com/guyandotte-huntington-west-virginia/ An eighteenth-century French settlement at the mouth of the Guyandotte River, burned by Union troops in 1861 after a Confederate raid - now a quiet Huntington neighborhood older than the city around it.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/6/guyandotte-huntington-west-virginia-wp/dnv6-guyandotte-huntington-west-virginia-combined.mp3 5:15 full Guyandotte River Train Wreck https://qualla.com/guyandotte-river-train-wreck/ Photo credit Xpda, Public domain. On New Year's Day 1913, a Chesapeake and Ohio bridge collapsed under a Mikado locomotive crossing the Guyandotte River, killing the engineer and six bridge workers.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/6/guyandotte-river-train-wreck-wp/dnv6-guyandotte-river-train-wreck-combined.mp3 5:26 full Heritage Farm Museum and Village https://qualla.com/heritage-farm-museum-and-village/ Photo credit Rlely777, CC BY-SA 4.0. A West Virginia open-air museum that grew from one couple's curiosity about the logs in their own farmhouse walls into the state's first Smithsonian affiliate.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/6/heritage-farm-museum-and-village-wp/dnv6-heritage-farm-museum-and-village-combined.mp3 5:26 full Huntington Museum of Art https://qualla.com/huntington-museum-of-art/ Photo credit Gkwfleming1974, CC BY-SA 4.0. West Virginia's largest art museum, designed in part by Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius, holding Renoir, Picasso, and a firearms collection that ranks third in the nation.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/6/huntington-museum-of-art-wp/dnv6-huntington-museum-of-art-combined.mp3 5:42 full Huntington, West Virginia https://qualla.com/huntington-west-virginia/ The Jewel City - West Virginia's second-largest city, built by railroad money in 1871, named for the man who built it, home to Marshall University and the world's largest rotating root beer mug.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/6/huntington-west-virginia-wk/dnv6-huntington-west-virginia-combined.mp3 5:52 full Keith-Albee Theatre https://qualla.com/keith-albee-theatre/ Photo credit Wv funnyman, CC BY-SA 4.0. Thought to be the second-largest theater in America when it opened in 1928 - a 3,000-seat Thomas W. Lamb movie palace in New Spanish Baroque style, with a reinstalled 1927 Wurlitzer organ.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/6/keith-albee-theatre-wp/dnv6-keith-albee-theatre-combined.mp3 5:29 full Macedonia Baptist Church https://qualla.com/macedonia-baptist-church-burlington-ohio/ Photo credit Nyttend, Public domain. An Ohio church built by free Black settlers, including thirty-two people freed from a Virginia plantation in 1849 and given land near Burlington to start their lives over.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/6/macedonia-baptist-church-burlington-ohio-wp/dnv6-macedonia-baptist-church-burlington-ohio-combined.mp3 5:12 full Marshall University https://qualla.com/marshall-university/ Photo credit Wv funnyman, CC BY-SA 4.0. A West Virginia university founded in 1837 that lost 75 people in a 1970 plane crash that killed nearly its entire football team and reshaped a city's identity forever.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/6/marshall-university-wp/dnv6-marshall-university-combined.mp3 5:57 full Memorial Arch https://qualla.com/memorial-arch-huntington-west-virginia/ Photo credit Jrappold, CC BY-SA 3.0. The only triumphal arch in West Virginia - a 42-foot Indiana limestone monument to Cabell County's World War I dead, built between 1924 and 1929.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/6/memorial-arch-huntington-west-virginia-wp/dnv6-memorial-arch-huntington-west-virginia-combined.mp3 5:41 full Memphis Tennessee Garrison House https://qualla.com/memphis-tennessee-garrison-house/ The Huntington home of Memphis Tennessee Garrison, a teacher and civil rights organizer who led the West Virginia NAACP and lived in this modest frame house for forty years.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/6/memphis-tennessee-garrison-house-wp/dnv6-memphis-tennessee-garrison-house-combined.mp3 5:14 full Museum of Radio and Technology https://qualla.com/museum-of-radio-and-technology/ Photo credit Samz73428091, CC BY 4.0. A West Virginia museum in a converted 1920s elementary school, displaying working crystal radios, a 1930s 5,000-watt AM transmitter, and a Gilbert Atomic Energy Lab kit.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/6/museum-of-radio-and-technology-wp/dnv6-museum-of-radio-and-technology-combined.mp3 5:39 full Old Main, Marshall University https://qualla.com/old-main-marshall-university/ Photo credit Jeanne6924, CC BY-SA 4.0. Marshall University's symbolic heart - five connected buildings constructed in stages between 1868 and 1907 on land that began as a one-room log church in the 1820s.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/6/old-main-marshall-university-wp/dnv6-old-main-marshall-university-combined.mp3 5:41 full Ritter Park https://qualla.com/ritter-park/ Photo credit Youngamerican at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. A lumberman's donation became Huntington's green heart - 75 acres of roses, footbridges, and trails along the Ohio River bottomlands.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/6/ritter-park-wp/dnv6-ritter-park-combined.mp3 4:35 full Simms School Building https://qualla.com/simms-school-building/ Photo credit Youngamerican (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. A 1920 Huntington schoolhouse with Doric columns and a circular interior hallway, now home to twenty senior apartments.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/6/simms-school-building-wp/dnv6-simms-school-building-combined.mp3 4:11 full Tri-State Airport https://qualla.com/tri-state-airport/ Photo credit United States Geological Survey (USGS), Public domain. A ridge-top airfield outside Huntington, West Virginia, forever marked by the November 1970 plane crash that killed nearly the entire Marshall football team.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/6/tri-state-airport-wp/dnv6-tri-state-airport-combined.mp3 5:06 full West Virginia Colored Children's Home https://qualla.com/west-virginia-colored-children-s-home/ Photo credit Youngamerican (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. For more than a century, this Huntington institution sheltered Black orphans and elders in a segregated state - and then, in 2011, it was demolished.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/6/west-virginia-colored-children-s-home-wp/dnv6-west-virginia-colored-children-s-home-combined.mp3 5:15 full West Virginia Hot Dog Festival https://qualla.com/west-virginia-hot-dog-festival/ Photo credit Wv funnyman, CC BY-SA 4.0. Each summer in Huntington, the state's beloved chili-slaw-mustard hot dog gets its own festival - and raises money for the local children's hospital.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/6/west-virginia-hot-dog-festival-wp/dnv6-west-virginia-hot-dog-festival-combined.mp3 4:48 full Z. D. Ramsdell House https://qualla.com/z-d-ramsdell-house/ Photo credit Nyttend, Public domain. An abolitionist shoemaker's brick house in Ceredo, West Virginia - one of the last Underground Railroad stops before the Ohio River.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/6/z-d-ramsdell-house-wp/dnv6-z-d-ramsdell-house-combined.mp3 4:44 full Hillbilly Hot Dogs https://qualla.com/hillbilly-hot-dogs/ Photo credit Youngamerican at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. A roadside hot dog stand in Lesage, West Virginia that turned a 15-inch deep-fried Homewrecker into national fame - and a Fallout 76 cameo.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/7/hillbilly-hot-dogs-wp/dnv7-hillbilly-hot-dogs-combined.mp3 4:34 full Hobet Coal Mine https://qualla.com/hobet-coal-mine/ For four decades, draglines flattened mountains here for five million tons of coal a year - and then the bottom fell out of an entire industry.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/8/hobet-coal-mine-wp/dnv8-hobet-coal-mine-combined.mp3 5:22 full Kanawha County Textbook War https://qualla.com/kanawha-county-textbook-war/ In 1974, a dispute over multicultural schoolbooks in West Virginia escalated into a months-long boycott, school bombings, and the opening salvo of America's modern culture wars.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/c/kanawha-county-textbook-war-wp/dnvc-kanawha-county-textbook-war-combined.mp3 5:34 full Kanawha State Forest https://qualla.com/kanawha-state-forest/ Photo credit Andrew Springer, CC BY-SA 4.0. 9,300 acres of CCC-built trails, ridgeline forest, and old-growth hardwoods, hidden seven miles from downtown Charleston.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/c/kanawha-state-forest-wp/dnvc-kanawha-state-forest-combined.mp3 4:57 full Morris Memorial Hospital for Crippled Children https://qualla.com/morris-memorial-hospital-for-crippled-children/ A 1936 WPA-built polio hospital for children in Milton, West Virginia - empty since 2009, a haunting limestone monument to a vanished epidemic.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/d/morris-memorial-hospital-for-crippled-children-wp/dnvd-morris-memorial-hospital-for-crippled-children-combined.mp3 5:19 full Gen. Albert Gallatin Jenkins House https://qualla.com/gen-albert-gallatin-jenkins-house/ Photo credit Youngamerican at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. An 1835 Federal-style plantation house on the Ohio River, once home to a congressman who became a Confederate cavalry general - and to the enslaved people whose labor built it.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/e/gen-albert-gallatin-jenkins-house-wp/dnve-gen-albert-gallatin-jenkins-house-combined.mp3 5:11 full Gen. John McCausland House https://qualla.com/gen-john-mccausland-house/ Photo credit Roger B. Wise, CC BY-SA 3.0. An unrepentant Confederate general who burned Chambersburg, Pennsylvania built this Mason County farmhouse in 1885 - and lived there, unreconciled, for the next forty-two years.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/e/gen-john-mccausland-house-wp/dnve-gen-john-mccausland-house-combined.mp3 5:15 full Toyota Motor Manufacturing West Virginia https://qualla.com/toyota-motor-manufacturing-west-virginia/ A Toyota engine and transmission plant in Buffalo, West Virginia, that quietly builds nearly a million powertrains a year for North American vehicles.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/e/toyota-motor-manufacturing-west-virginia-wp/dnve-toyota-motor-manufacturing-west-virginia-combined.mp3 5:16 full 2014 Elk River chemical spill https://qualla.com/2014-elk-river-chemical-spill/ Photo credit Tim Kiser (w:User:Malepheasant), CC BY-SA 2.5. In January 2014, a leaking tank at a Charleston chemical storage company contaminated the drinking water of 300,000 West Virginians for days.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/f/2014-elk-river-chemical-spill-wp/dnvf-2014-elk-river-chemical-spill-combined.mp3 5:18 full Battle of Charleston (1862) https://qualla.com/battle-of-charleston-1862/ Photo credit Jacob Dolson Cox modified by TwoScarsUp, Public domain. On September 13, 1862, Confederate forces under General William W. Loring captured Charleston, burned its supply depots, and chased the Union army to the Ohio River.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/f/battle-of-charleston-1862-wp/dnvf-battle-of-charleston-1862-combined.mp3 5:24 full Battle of Scary Creek https://qualla.com/battle-of-scary-creek/ Photo credit AxelRavera, CC BY-SA 4.0. A small July 1861 fight near a creek with the perfect name - the first Confederate victory in the Kanawha Valley, won by General Patton's grandfather.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/f/battle-of-scary-creek-wp/dnvf-battle-of-scary-creek-combined.mp3 5:38 full Clay Center (Charleston, West Virginia) https://qualla.com/clay-center-charleston-west-virginia/ Photo credit Analogue Kid, CC BY-SA 3.0. A 240,000-square-foot cultural complex in downtown Charleston that combines a science museum, an art museum, a planetarium, and a 1,883-seat concert hall under one roof.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/f/clay-center-charleston-west-virginia-wp/dnvf-clay-center-charleston-west-virginia-combined.mp3 5:00 full Criel Mound https://qualla.com/criel-mound/ Photo credit David G. Simpson, Public domain. A 2,200-year-old Adena burial mound in the middle of South Charleston, West Virginia - once a center of a vast indigenous landscape that ran for miles along the Kanawha.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/f/criel-mound-wp/dnvf-criel-mound-combined.mp3 5:24 full Daniel Boone Hotel (Charleston, West Virginia) https://qualla.com/daniel-boone-hotel-charleston-west-virginia/ Photo credit Pubdog at English Wikipedia, Public domain. A 1929 Classical Revival skyscraper hotel that anchored Charleston's downtown for half a century, now repurposed as office space.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/f/daniel-boone-hotel-charleston-west-virginia-wp/dnvf-daniel-boone-hotel-charleston-west-virginia-combined.mp3 5:06 full East End Historic District (Charleston, West Virginia) https://qualla.com/east-end-historic-district-charleston-west-virginia/ Photo credit Pubdog (talk), Public domain. The residential neighborhood that grew up around the West Virginia State Capitol - a hundred years of American architectural styles laid out along the Kanawha River.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/f/east-end-historic-district-charleston-west-virginia-wp/dnvf-east-end-historic-district-charleston-west-virginia-combined.mp3 5:32 full Elizabeth Harden Gilmore House https://qualla.com/elizabeth-harden-gilmore-house/ Photo credit Pubdog (talk), Public domain. Home and funeral parlor of Elizabeth Harden Gilmore, the first licensed Black female funeral director in West Virginia and one of the architects of the state's civil rights movement.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/f/elizabeth-harden-gilmore-house-wp/dnvf-elizabeth-harden-gilmore-house-combined.mp3 5:08 full Fike Chemical https://qualla.com/fike-chemical/ A small Nitro chemical plant so badly run that Lesley Stahl called it 'the messiest place we've ever been' on 60 Minutes - and the EPA still monitors the groundwater.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/f/fike-chemical-wp/dnvf-fike-chemical-combined.mp3 5:32 full Fort Scammon https://qualla.com/fort-scammon/ Photo credit JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ M.D., CC BY-SA 4.0. An elliptical Union earthwork fort on a ridge above Charleston, built in 1863 to keep the city from being captured a second time.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/f/fort-scammon-wp/dnvf-fort-scammon-combined.mp3 4:54 full Garnet High School https://qualla.com/garnet-high-school/ Photo credit Pubdog (talk), Public domain. Charleston's African-American high school from 1929 until desegregation, named for an abolitionist diplomat - and the school that produced the first Black Naval Aviator.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/f/garnet-high-school-wp/dnvf-garnet-high-school-combined.mp3 5:20 full Holly Grove Mansion https://qualla.com/holly-grove-mansion/ Photo credit Pubdog (talk), Public domain. Charleston's oldest brick house, built in 1815 by a Kanawha Valley salt baron - now standing in the front yard of the West Virginia State Capitol.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/f/holly-grove-mansion-wp/dnvf-holly-grove-mansion-combined.mp3 5:05 full Jenkins's trans-Allegheny raid https://qualla.com/jenkins-s-trans-allegheny-raid/ Photo credit The map is by Alvin Jewett Johnson (1827-1884), and was published in 1864. TwoScarsUp made modifications., Public domain. In August 1862, Confederate cavalry under Albert G. Jenkins rode 500 miles through western Virginia and into Ohio - the first Confederate invasion of Ohio in the Civil War.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/f/jenkins-s-trans-allegheny-raid-wp/dnvf-jenkins-s-trans-allegheny-raid-combined.mp3 5:55 full John E. Amos Power Plant https://qualla.com/john-e-amos-power-plant/ Photo credit Tikilucas, CC BY-SA 4.0. AEP's largest coal-fired power plant - 2,933 megawatts on the Kanawha River, burning 26,000 tons of coal a day to keep two million houses lit.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/f/john-e-amos-power-plant-wp/dnvf-john-e-amos-power-plant-combined.mp3 5:34 full Kanawha Valley Campaign of 1862 https://qualla.com/kanawha-valley-campaign-of-1862/ Photo credit Pubdog (talk), Public domain. A six-week Confederate offensive that briefly seized the entire Kanawha Valley before logistics and supply lines forced a withdrawal.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/f/kanawha-valley-campaign-of-1862-wp/dnvf-kanawha-valley-campaign-of-1862-combined.mp3 5:33 full Luna Park Historic District https://qualla.com/luna-park-historic-district/ Photo credit JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ M.D., CC BY-SA 4.0. Where Charleston's West Side amusement park stood from 1912 to 1923 - now a residential neighborhood of 444 Foursquares, bungalows, Tudor Revivals, and Colonial Revivals.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/f/luna-park-historic-district-wp/dnvf-luna-park-historic-district-combined.mp3 5:34 full Nitro, West Virginia https://qualla.com/nitro-west-virginia/ Photo credit SuperDalio, CC BY-SA 4.0. An entire West Virginia town built in 1918 to make gunpowder for World War One - then handed to the chemical industry, with consequences that lasted a century.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/f/nitro-west-virginia-wp/dnvf-nitro-west-virginia-combined.mp3 5:47 full Scary, West Virginia https://qualla.com/scary-west-virginia/ An unincorporated community along the Kanawha River with one of America's better place names - and a small Civil War battlefield to match.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/f/scary-west-virginia-wp/dnvf-scary-west-virginia-combined.mp3 5:10 full Southwest Airlines Flight 2294 https://qualla.com/southwest-airlines-flight-2294/ Photo credit NTSB investigator(s), Public domain. A football-sized hole opened in the roof of a Southwest 737 at 35,000 feet over West Virginia in July 2009 - everyone landed safely at Charleston.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/f/southwest-airlines-flight-2294-wp/dnvf-southwest-airlines-flight-2294-combined.mp3 5:45 full Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia https://qualla.com/supreme-court-of-appeals-of-west-virginia/ In 2018, the West Virginia House of Delegates impeached every member of the state's highest court at once - the most extraordinary judicial reckoning in modern American history.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/f/supreme-court-of-appeals-of-west-virginia-wp/dnvf-supreme-court-of-appeals-of-west-virginia-combined.mp3 5:27 full Tornado https://qualla.com/tornado-west-virginia/ A West Virginia community whose name swapped between Tornado and Upper Falls for two centuries before residents fought to keep the dramatic one.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/f/tornado-west-virginia-wk/dnvf-tornado-west-virginia-combined.mp3 3:11 full University of Charleston https://qualla.com/university-of-charleston/ Photo credit Silversam7, CC BY-SA 4.0. A small private university in West Virginia's capital that once tried to give itself to the state - and now wins Division II soccer championships from a campus across the river from the gold-domed Capitol.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/f/university-of-charleston-wp/dnvf-university-of-charleston-combined.mp3 4:03 full Vandalia https://qualla.com/vandalia-colony/ An 18th-century British colony that never quite existed, named after a queen whose ancestors were thought to be barbarian invaders of Rome - and the closest the United States ever came to having a 14th original colony.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/f/vandalia-colony-wp/dnvf-vandalia-colony-combined.mp3 4:11 full West Virginia Governor's Mansion https://qualla.com/west-virginia-governor-s-mansion/ Photo credit Enrichyourmind, CC BY-SA 3.0. A 1925 red-brick Colonial Revival house on the Kanawha River with a foyer modeled after the White House, where every West Virginia governor for a century has lived next door to the gold-domed Capitol.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/f/west-virginia-governor-s-mansion-wp/dnvf-west-virginia-governor-s-mansion-combined.mp3 3:31 full West Virginia Music Hall of Fame https://qualla.com/west-virginia-music-hall-of-fame/ A volunteer-run Charleston institution that proves West Virginia has launched as much American music as any state its size - from Bill Withers to Hazel Dickens to the piano player who taught Chuck Berry his licks.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/f/west-virginia-music-hall-of-fame-wp/dnvf-west-virginia-music-hall-of-fame-combined.mp3 3:46 full West Virginia State Capitol https://qualla.com/west-virginia-state-capitol/ Photo credit O Palsson, CC BY 2.0. The 292-foot Cass Gilbert masterwork rising on the south bank of the Kanawha River, designed by the same architect who shaped the U.S. Supreme Court - and West Virginia's third try at a capitol after two of them burned down.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/f/west-virginia-state-capitol-wp/dnvf-west-virginia-state-capitol-combined.mp3 4:14 full West Virginia State Museum https://qualla.com/west-virginia-state-museum/ Photo credit WeaponizingArchitecture, CC BY-SA 4.0. The state's main museum, founded in 1890, now occupying a 17.9 million dollar renovation at the Capitol Complex - home to Civil War flags, a fraudulent rune stone, and lingering questions about how to tell the story of coal.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/f/west-virginia-state-museum-wp/dnvf-west-virginia-state-museum-combined.mp3 3:55 full West Virginia State University https://qualla.com/west-virginia-state-university/ A 1891 land-grant HBCU founded on land donated by the mixed-race daughter of an interracial Virginia couple - whose alumni include Katherine Johnson, Earl Lloyd, and Antoine Fuqua.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/f/west-virginia-state-university-wp/dnvf-west-virginia-state-university-combined.mp3 4:55 full Yeager Airport https://qualla.com/yeager-airport/ Photo credit formulanone from Huntsville, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0. Charleston's clifftop airport, named for the West Virginia farmboy who broke the sound barrier - where pilots land on a runway carved from a flattened mountain and stopped by EMAS crushable concrete at both ends.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/f/yeager-airport-wp/dnvf-yeager-airport-combined.mp3 4:33 full Battle of Winfield https://qualla.com/battle-of-winfield-west-virginia/ A small Civil War cavalry raid where 425 Confederates were turned back by a single Union company defending their own hometowns - one of the smallest decisive engagements of the war.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/g/battle-of-winfield-west-virginia-wp/dnvg-battle-of-winfield-west-virginia-combined.mp3 3:47 full Hardin Village Site https://qualla.com/hardin-village-site/ Photo credit Heironymous Rowe (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. A protohistoric Fort Ancient village on the Ohio River floodplain in Kentucky where copper from European traders reached the burials before the traders themselves did - one of the largest Fort Ancient cemeteries known.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/h/hardin-village-site-wp/dnvh-hardin-village-site-combined.mp3 4:22 full Portsmouth https://qualla.com/portsmouth-ohio/ Photo credit Turover, CC BY-SA 4.0. A faded Ohio River industrial city that once led the nation in shoe and brick manufacturing, hosted the original Detroit Lions, and now stages its complicated history on 2,000 feet of floodwall murals.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/h/portsmouth-ohio-wp/dnvh-portsmouth-ohio-combined.mp3 4:26 full Jackson https://qualla.com/jackson-ohio/ Photo credit dok1, CC BY 2.0. The Jackson County seat in southeast Ohio, where the water tower is painted to look like an apple and the town builds its identity around the autumn Apple Festival.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/n/jackson-ohio-wk/dnvn-jackson-ohio-combined.mp3 3:36 full Lake Katharine State Nature Preserve https://qualla.com/lake-katharine-state-nature-preserve/ Photo credit Jaknouse, CC BY-SA 4.0. A 2,019-acre Ohio sandstone gorge where southern bigleaf magnolias hit their northern limit and northern clubmosses hit their southern one - a botanical seam visible in a single afternoon hike.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/n/lake-katharine-state-nature-preserve-wp/dnvn-lake-katharine-state-nature-preserve-combined.mp3 4:14 full Leo Petroglyph https://qualla.com/leo-petroglyph/ Photo credit Nyttend, Public domain. Thirty-seven carvings of humans, animals, and footprints pecked into a sandstone slab in Jackson County, Ohio - meanings still unknown - protected since the WPA built a shelter over them in the 1930s.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/n/leo-petroglyph-wp/dnvn-leo-petroglyph-combined.mp3 4:01 full Salt Reservations https://qualla.com/salt-reservations/ Photo credit William E Peters, Public domain. An 18th-century federal anti-monopoly experiment that locked salt springs out of private sale to keep frontier meat preservation affordable - a Founders-era policy now nearly forgotten.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/n/salt-reservations-wp/dnvn-salt-reservations-combined.mp3 4:30 full Great Seal State Park https://qualla.com/great-seal-state-park/ Photo credit Dan Keck from Ohio, CC0. The forested Ross County ridges that became the literal model for the Ohio state seal - now an 1,682-acre park preserving the view that early statehood made official.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/p/great-seal-state-park-wp/dnvp-great-seal-state-park-combined.mp3 4:05 full Ratcliffe Mound https://qualla.com/ratcliffe-mound/ Photo credit Nyttend, Public domain. A 14-foot earthen mound at the bottom of a steep Vinton County valley whose builders have never been identified - and whose interior has never been excavated, leaving its mystery preserved.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/p/ratcliffe-mound-wp/dnvp-ratcliffe-mound-combined.mp3 4:20 full Scioto Trail State Park https://qualla.com/scioto-trail-state-park/ Photo credit Don O'Brien from Piketon, Ohio, United States, CC BY 2.0. A 218-acre Ohio state park nestled inside a much larger state forest, with a hermit's cave, a replica frontier church, and the kind of mixed oak-hemlock hills that wrap around Caldwell Lake.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/p/scioto-trail-state-park-wp/dnvp-scioto-trail-state-park-combined.mp3 4:03 full Tar Hollow State Forest https://qualla.com/tar-hollow-state-forest/ Ohio's third-largest state forest at 16,120 acres, born from a Depression-era federal project that moved subsistence farmers off marginal Appalachian land - a forest grown back from a failure of farming.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/p/tar-hollow-state-forest-wp/dnvp-tar-hollow-state-forest-combined.mp3 4:14 full Eakin Mill Covered Bridge https://qualla.com/eakin-mill-covered-bridge/ Photo credit Jonathunder, Public domain. An 1870 weatherboard-walled covered bridge in rural Vinton County, Ohio - retired from daily traffic when modern truck loads pushed beyond its limits, but preserved in place as a vanishing piece of 19th-century engineering.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/q/eakin-mill-covered-bridge-wp/dnvq-eakin-mill-covered-bridge-combined.mp3 3:49 full Ponn Humpback Covered Bridge https://qualla.com/ponn-humpback-covered-bridge/ Photo credit JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ MD, CC BY-SA 3.0. An arched Burr-truss covered bridge in Vinton County, Ohio, that was built in 1874 to replace one arsonists had burned - and then burned by arsonists themselves in 2013, ending an unusually long-running flammable history.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/q/ponn-humpback-covered-bridge-wp/dnvq-ponn-humpback-covered-bridge-combined.mp3 4:10 full Moonville https://qualla.com/moonville-ohio/ Photo credit ChristopherM, CC BY 2.5. A Vinton County ghost town remembered mostly for the dark railroad tunnel it left behind - where at least 21 people died on the tracks and four named ghosts are still said to walk.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/r/moonville-ohio-wp/dnvr-moonville-ohio-combined.mp3 4:11 full Moonville Rail-Trail https://qualla.com/moonville-rail-trail/ Photo credit Jaknouse, CC BY-SA 3.0. Ten miles of former Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad converted into a southeast Ohio rail-trail that takes hikers and cyclists through two historic tunnels - the masonry Moonville Tunnel and the timber King's Hollow Tunnel.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/r/moonville-rail-trail-wp/dnvr-moonville-rail-trail-combined.mp3 3:42 full Zaleski Mound Group https://qualla.com/zaleski-mound-group/ Photo credit Nyttend, Public domain. Three Adena culture burial mounds in the small village of Zaleski, Ohio - including the 14-foot Ranger Station Mound near the entrance to Zaleski State Forest, preserved on land later used for federal Depression-era reforestation.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/r/zaleski-mound-group-wp/dnvr-zaleski-mound-group-combined.mp3 4:08 full Zaleski State Forest https://qualla.com/zaleski-state-forest/ A 28,000-acre Ohio state forest in the unglaciated Allegheny Plateau, wrapping around Lake Hope State Park - whose white oak supplied the wood for Ohio State University's award-winning 2008 library renovation.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/r/zaleski-state-forest-wp/dnvr-zaleski-state-forest-combined.mp3 3:52 full 1976 Mason County Jail Bombing https://qualla.com/1976-mason-county-jail-bombing/ A 1976 suicide bombing at the Mason County Courthouse in Point Pleasant, West Virginia that killed five people - the result of a young couple's suicide pact following the murder of their infant daughter.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/s/1976-mason-county-jail-bombing-wp/dnvs-1976-mason-county-jail-bombing-combined.mp3 4:27 full Battle of Point Pleasant https://qualla.com/battle-of-point-pleasant/ The 1774 confrontation at the confluence of the Ohio and Kanawha rivers - the only major action of Dunmore's War, where Shawnee chief Cornstalk's warriors fought Virginia militia hand-to-hand for an entire day.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/s/battle-of-point-pleasant-wp/dnvs-battle-of-point-pleasant-combined.mp3 4:34 full Chief Cornstalk Wildlife Management Area https://qualla.com/chief-cornstalk-wildlife-management-area/ An 11,772-acre West Virginia wildlife area named for the Shawnee chief whose warriors fought the Virginia militia nearby in 1774 - now second-growth oak-hickory forest for deer, turkey, and bass fishing.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/s/chief-cornstalk-wildlife-management-area-wp/dnvs-chief-cornstalk-wildlife-management-area-combined.mp3 4:26 full Fort Randolph https://qualla.com/fort-randolph-west-virginia/ Photo credit CC BY-SA 3.0. A Revolutionary War-era fort at the confluence of the Ohio and Kanawha rivers, best remembered for the murder of Shawnee Chief Cornstalk inside its walls in 1777 - an atrocity that Patrick Henry prosecuted, and that no jury would convict.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/s/fort-randolph-west-virginia-wp/dnvs-fort-randolph-west-virginia-combined.mp3 4:39 full Gallipolis https://qualla.com/gallipolis/ Photo credit Scott Stewart, CC BY 2.0. An Ohio River town founded in 1790 by French aristocrats fleeing the Revolution - who bought their land from a company that did not own it, and most of whom did not survive the first winters.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/s/gallipolis-wk/dnvs-gallipolis-combined.mp3 4:07 full Lake Tight https://qualla.com/lake-tight/ Photo credit Chris Light, CC BY-SA 3.0. A Pleistocene glacial lake that once flooded 10,000 square miles of Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia - as large as Lake Erie at its greatest extent, and the geological event that created the modern Ohio River.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/s/lake-tight-wp/dnvs-lake-tight-combined.mp3 4:51 full Mothman Festival https://qualla.com/mothman-festival/ An annual September festival in Point Pleasant, West Virginia built around a 1960s cryptid sighting - drawing over 15,000 paranormal enthusiasts a year to a town of 4,000 for cosplay, lectures, and red-eyed plush dolls.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/s/mothman-festival-wp/dnvs-mothman-festival-combined.mp3 4:49 full Tu-Endie-Wei State Park https://qualla.com/tu-endie-wei-state-park/ Photo credit Antony-22, CC BY-SA 4.0. A small West Virginia state park at the confluence of the Ohio and Kanawha rivers, named with a Wyandot phrase meaning the point between two waters - marking the 1774 Battle of Point Pleasant and Chief Cornstalk's grave.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/s/tu-endie-wei-state-park-wp/dnvs-tu-endie-wei-state-park-combined.mp3 4:20 full Gavin Power Plant https://qualla.com/gavin-power-plant/ Photo credit The original uploader was Analogue Kid at English Wikipedia., CC BY 2.5. The largest coal-fired power station in Ohio, built where a village once stood until its owner paid every resident to leave.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/t/gavin-power-plant-wp/dnvt-gavin-power-plant-combined.mp3 5:11 full Lakin State Hospital https://qualla.com/lakin-state-hospital/ A segregation-era psychiatric hospital in West Virginia, notable as one of only two in the United States entirely staffed and run by Black professionals.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/t/lakin-state-hospital-wp/dnvt-lakin-state-hospital-combined.mp3 4:57 full Mountaineer Power Plant https://qualla.com/mountaineer-power-plant/ Photo credit Nyttend, Public domain. A West Virginia coal plant whose original 336-meter chimney was, for a time, one of the tallest in the world, and which briefly hosted the first attempt to bury its own carbon dioxide.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/t/mountaineer-power-plant-wp/dnvt-mountaineer-power-plant-combined.mp3 5:20 full Point Pleasant https://qualla.com/point-pleasant-west-virginia/ Photo credit Brian M. Powell (user Bitmapped on en.wikipedia), CC BY-SA 3.0. A small West Virginia town at the confluence of the Ohio and Kanawha rivers, famous for the Mothman sightings of 1966-67 and for the 1774 battle some historians call the first of the Revolution.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/t/point-pleasant-west-virginia-wk/dnvt-point-pleasant-west-virginia-combined.mp3 5:44 full West Virginia Ordnance Works https://qualla.com/west-virginia-ordnance-works/ An 8,323-acre World War II TNT plant outside Point Pleasant whose contaminated remains became a Superfund site, a wildlife refuge, an airport, and the supposed home of Mothman.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/t/west-virginia-ordnance-works-wp/dnvt-west-virginia-ordnance-works-combined.mp3 5:35 full Staats Mill Covered Bridge https://qualla.com/staats-mill-covered-bridge/ Photo credit Youngamerican (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. An 1887 wooden covered bridge in Jackson County, West Virginia, built for $1,788.35 and now standing over a camp pond three miles from where it was born.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/u/staats-mill-covered-bridge-wp/dnvu-staats-mill-covered-bridge-combined.mp3 5:13 full Buffington Island https://qualla.com/buffington-island/ An uninhabited Ohio River island where, in July 1863, Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan's deepest northern incursion ended in disaster on the riverbank.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/v/buffington-island-wp/dnvv-buffington-island-combined.mp3 5:31 full Ravenswood https://qualla.com/ravenswood-west-virginia/ Photo credit Antony-22, CC BY-SA 4.0. A small Ohio River city in West Virginia that was supposed to grow into a 25,000-person aluminum boomtown and never quite did.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/v/ravenswood-west-virginia-wp/dnvv-ravenswood-west-virginia-combined.mp3 5:40 full Sarvis Fork Covered Bridge https://qualla.com/sarvis-fork-covered-bridge/ Photo credit Brian M. Powell (user Bitmapped on en.wikipedia), CC BY-SA 3.0. A 101-foot covered bridge in rural Jackson County, West Virginia, built in 1889 for $64 and moved to its current site in 1924 when the highway found a faster way.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/v/sarvis-fork-covered-bridge-wp/dnvv-sarvis-fork-covered-bridge-combined.mp3 5:09 full Spruce 1 https://qualla.com/spruce-1/ A proposed mountaintop-removal coal mine in West Virginia that became the most contested permit in American mining history before the EPA killed it in 2011.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/v/spruce-1-wp/dnvv-spruce-1-combined.mp3 5:34 full Mound Cemetery Mound https://qualla.com/mound-cemetery-mound-chester-ohio/ Photo credit Nyttend, Public domain. A surviving Adena-culture burial mound in central Meigs County, Ohio, kept intact because nineteenth-century settlers happened to bury their own dead around it.

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