West Virginia
132 stories you can hear on the road. Each dot is one of them.
Across the state
- Blair Mountain, The Army vs. the Miners
- Born in Fire, The Only State the Civil War Made
- Chemical Valley, The Price of Industry on the Kanawha
- Harpers Ferry, John Brown's Last Gamble
- Matewan, Nineteen Twenty, The Day the Shooting Started
- Mother Jones and the Mine Wars, The Old Woman Who Never Surrendered
- The Company Town, Coal, Control, and Scrip
- The Extraction Economy, What the Mountains Gave and What Stayed
- The Hunting Ground, Shawnee, Cherokee, and the Land Nobody Owned
- The Legend of John Henry, Steel Driver, Symbol, Song
- The Mountain State, Appalachian Identity and the World's Eye
- The Railroad Age, Tracks Through the Mountains
Near Harpers Ferry
- Bunker Hill, First Settlement in West Virginia
- Harpers Ferry: The Town at Three Borders
- Hoke's Run: Jackson Before He Was Stonewall
- How Robert Harper Made His Ferry
- Jefferson's Rock: Worth a Voyage Across the Atlantic
- John Brown's Fort
- Martinsburg Station
- Martinsburg, Spy Nest, Railroad Town, Strike City
- Storer College and the Niagara Movement of Nineteen Oh Six
- Stumpy's Hollow
- The Armory That Armed America and Equipped Lewis and Clark
- The Largest Union Surrender of the Civil War
- The Martinsburg Roundhouse and the Strike That Changed America
Near Snowshoe
- Doc Brigham Finds His Mountain, Nineteen Seventy-Four
- Robert E. Lee's First Battle: Cheat Mountain, Eighteen Sixty-One
- Sky Islands: The Red Spruce Forest Above Four Thousand Feet
- Snowshoe and Cheat Mountain: The High Alleghenies
- The Cass Scenic Railroad: Logging Lines Still Running
- Two Billion Board Feet: The Logging of Cheat Mountain
Near Wisp
Along the way
- Barboursville: Named for a Virginia Governor
- Battle of Charleston 1862: Six Weeks of Confederate Control
- Battle of Scary Creek: The Kanawha Valley's First Fight
- Beckley, West Virginia
- Beckley: Named for the First Librarian of Congress
- Belle: Where North American Synthetic Ammonia Was Born
- Bridgeport: Named for a Covered Bridge, Birthplace of an Oil Wildcatter
- Buckhannon: Stonewall's Grandfather Drew These Streets
- Burnsville: A Sawmill Town Remade by a Dam
- Caldwell: Crossroads on the Kanawha Turnpike
- Ceredo: The Abolitionist Town That Almost Was
- Charleston Municipal Auditorium
- Charleston's Art Deco Grande Dame
- Cheat Lake: The Lake Locals Renamed
- Clendenin, West Virginia
- Colonel William Lowther
- Constable Silas Nance, Ohley, West Virginia
- Crab Orchard, West Virginia
- Craik-Patton House: Washington's Doctor to Patton's Grandfather
- Cranberry, West Virginia
- Criel Mound
- Crook's Victory at the Mountain Crossroads
- Davis and Elkins College: Two Senators Build a School
- Elizabeth, West Virginia and the Ohio Company
- Fairmont: The Coal Barons and Mother Jones
- Flat Top, West Virginia
- Franklin, West Virginia: Where Three Counties Became One
- Gassaway, West Virginia
- Germany Valley: The Last Frontier Fort
- Ghent, West Virginia
- Gilmer County and Glenville
- Glenville and the Ford
- Grafton National Cemetery
- Grafton, West Virginia: Where Mother's Day Was Born
- Guyandotte: The Ohio River Town That Chose the Wrong Side
- Hancock House: Duke Ellington's West Virginia Stop
- Hurricane, West Virginia
- Indian Mound Cemetery
- Institute: West Virginia's Black Land-Grant College
- Jane Lew: A Congressman Named His Town for His Mother
- Kenova: Where Three States Meet in a Name
- Kimball: The First Memorial to Black Soldiers
- Lewisburg: The Town That Fought Back
- Lost Creek, West Virginia
- Lost World Caverns: The Thirty-Ton Chandelier
- Mabscott, West Virginia
- MacArthur, West Virginia
- Malden, West Virginia
- Monongah, December Sixth, Nineteen Oh Seven
- Monongah: The Worst Mining Disaster in American History
- Nitro: A City Built in Eleven Months
- Nutter Fort: One of the Strongest Stockades South of Fort Pitt
- Old Stone Church, Lewisburg
- Page-Vawter House: Gothic Revival in the Gorge Country
- Parkersburg: Oil, the B&O, and the Birth of West Virginia
- Pax, West Virginia
- Pax: Where Two Coalfield Railroads Met
- Pearl Buck's Birthplace and Averell's Raid
- Prickett's Fort: Forting Up on the Monongahela
- Prosperity, West Virginia
- Raleigh, West Virginia: Black Knight Coal Country
- Ripley, West Virginia
- Romney: The Town That Changed Hands Fifty-Six Times
- Saint Joseph Cathedral: Wheeling's Florentine Dome
- Salem, West Virginia: The Other Salem
- Samuel Lewis Hays
- Sandstone Falls: The New River's Widest Drop
- Seneca Rocks: Where the Army Learned to Climb
- South Point: Ohio's Southernmost Village
- Spruce Knob and the Monongahela High Country
- Staats Mill Bridge: A Victorian Span on the Move
- Star City: A Glass Town Built for Immigrant Workers
- Sutton, West Virginia
- The Battle of Charleston: The Kanawha Valley Changes Hands
- The Border Heroine of Dunkard Creek
- The Bridge They Jump Off Every October
- The Elk River Spill: Three Hundred Thousand Without Safe Water
- The Flatwoods Monster
- The Greenbrier: Resort, Hospital, Bunker
- The Greenbrier: Spa, Sanctuary, and Secret Bunker
- The Kanawha Valley Campaign: When West Virginia Was Briefly Confederate Again
- The Law Books and the Lost Raid
- The Marshall Beech Tree
- The Marshall Plane Crash
- The Morgan House: Where West Virginia's Coal Era Began
- The Salt Valley: How the Kanawha Kept Changing Hands
- Thurmond, Nuttallburg, Kaymoor: The Towns the Coal Left Behind
- Triadelphia: First Town in West Virginia
- Warden and Pinepoca: Ghost Towns of the Raleigh County Coalfields
- Watters Smith State Park: A Frontier Farm Preserved in Time
- West Virginia State University: The HBCU That Opened Its Doors
- West Virginia University: The Mountaineers
- Weston, West Virginia
- Williamson: Heart of the Billion Dollar Coalfield
- Williamstown: Where Carnival Glass Was Born
- Winifrede, West Virginia