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  • The John E. Amos power plant is seen from a field outside of Winfield, W,Va., on Thursday night, August 23, 2018. Built in the 1970's, the plant is the largest in the American Electric Power system. Many of AEP's smaller coal-fired power plants in Appalachia closed in response to environmental regulations such as the Clean Power Plan in 2015.
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  • The comet Neowise streaks across the sky over Spruce Knob in West Virginia.
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  • Light trails from passing cars are seen in this long exposure from Fort Hill over Interstate 64. Charleston, W.Va.
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  • The Greenbrier resort has been at the center of business and politics in West Virginia for generations. Now, its ownership by Gov. Jim Justice has created a host of conflicts of interest, as the governor uses his position to help ensure the resort’s future.
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  • Blackwater Falls is seen in the early morning from an overlook in the park outside of Davis, W. Va.
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  • The town, dam and locks of London. Kanawha County, West Virginia.
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  • Mt Hope is a former mining town that was a premier destination for Fayette County from its formation in the 1890's to its chartering in the 1920s and beyond. Unlike many other mining towns throughout the state where only a company general store was allowed, Mt. Hope grew independently, with its main street teeming with restaurants, theaters, hotels, shopping boutiques and more. However, as the decades wore on economic realities began taking their toll, with major employers such as the New River coal company shutting down (the local siltex mine just outside of town was one of the last mines in operation, and was also the site of a mining accident in 1966 that killed seven workers). leading to a steady decline for the once prosperous town. Now, of the dozens of buildings lining main street, only a handful have businesses occupying them. The town of 1,400 has no more than two eateries, a local Italian restaurant and an Italian chain further down the street. The local high school was demolished, with students now going to school in nearby Oak Hill or Beckley. Even places of basic employment are shutting down, with a local family dollar shutting its doors a short while ago.
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  • On the road to Dryfork. Route 32. West Virginia.
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  • The Kanawha River power plant, shut down since 2015, is seen on a moonlit night in Glasgow, W,Va.
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  • The Kanawha River power plant, shut down since 2015, is seen on a moonlit night in Glasgow, W,Va., on Monday night, August 28, 2018.
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  • WVA Manufacturing. Alloy, W.V.
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  • The Mammoth Coal Processing Plant is seen in a long exposure. Route 60, Kanawha County, West Virginia.
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  • The historic town of Harpers Ferry is illuminated from a full moon above; as seen from the edge of Maryland Heights.<br />
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On the night of October 16th, 1859 a party of 17 armed men led by the militant abolitionist John Brown crossed the Potomac River over the B&O railroad bridge (the piers of which can be seen below at left) to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry and its stockpile of 100,000 rifles and muskets. With these weapons, Brown intended to facilitate an armed slave uprising that would spread throughout the entire South. <br />
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While his raid failed, the news of John Brown's attempt was an earthquake that reverberated throughout the entire Union and split the fault line between North and South. denounced as a psychotic terrorist by Southerners, Brown was embraced by many Northern abolitionists as a martyr. This outpouring of support for Brown exasperated Southern suspicions of a yankee-abolitionist plot to subjugate the South under Northern control through emancipation; by force if necessary. Southern states, long fearful of slave revolts, revived the militia system to combat all future "John Browns" laying the foundation for what would become the Confederate Army. <br />
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On the morning of his execution, John Brown handed a note to one of his guards that would become prophetic: "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood..." 16 months later, Confederate batteries in Charleston would open fire on Fort Sumter, and the bloody purge would begin.
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  • Misty night over the Gauley River, taken in the town of Gauley Bridge, West Virginia.
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  • Sunrise. Dolly Sods Wilderness. Tucker County, West Virginia.
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  • Sunrise. Dolly Sods Wilderness. Tucker County, West Virginia.
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  • Sunrise. Dolly Sods Wilderness. Tucker County, West Virginia.
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  • Dusk over the Ohio River from Harris Riverfront Park. Huntington, Cabell County, West Virginia.
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  • Moonlit Night over Hinton from across the New River. Greenbrier County, West Virginia.
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  • Roadside Barn along Route 10 from Huntington. Cabell County, West Virginia.
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  • A passing train is blurred in a long exposure on railroad tracks alongside route 60 in Belle, West Virginia.
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  • A church is seen along the road to Seneca Rocks in Eastern West Virginia.
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  • Starry sky over Summersville Dam & Gauley River.
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  • Starry Sky. Dolly Sods Wilderness. Tucker County, West Virginia.
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  • The moon rises over the Kanawha River at Glen Ferris, W,Va., on Monday, August 28, 2018.
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  • A nearly full moon illuminates passing clouds over a wintry Highland Scenic Highway in Pocahontas County, West Virginia.
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  • View from Hawks Nest Overlook. Near Ansted, West Virginia. The construction of the Hawks Nest tunnel nearby to support the hydroelectric dam below the overlook in the 1930's resulted in one of the worst industrial disasters in the nation's history, with large scale silicosis killing hundreds of the workers who worked to build it.
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  • The old gristmill is seen amidst the colors of fall in Babcock State Park near Clifftop, W.V., on Saturday, October 27, 2018.
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  • Thousands of lightning bugs light up the New River Gorge as the New River Gorge bridge towers above. As seen from the Fayette Station Road bridge in Fayettevile, W.V., on June 19, 2019. (Craig Hudson/The Charleston Gazette-Mail via AP)
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