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  • Glade Creek Grist Mill. Babcock State Park. West Virginia.
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  • New River Gorge Bridge. Fayetteville, W.Va.
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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 to seize the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry and its stockpile of 100,000 rifles and muskets. With these weapons, Brown intended to facilitate an armed slave uprising that would begin in Virginia and move South along the Blue Ridge as word of the revolt spread. The raid was initially successful. Brown's men seized the railroad bridge, rounded up the town's watchmen, cut the telegraph wire and seized the arsenal complex (guarded by a single sentry) without incident. It all went downhill from there. <br />
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Brown's entire plan hinged on the assumption that slaves in the surrounding countryside would flock to him after receiving word of the raid. However, no slaves were made aware of the planned attack, and consequently Brown quickly found himself surrounded in the morning not by eager runaway slaves but by angry townspeople and militia. Volleys were exchanged and hostages taken as Brown and his men retreated into the Arsenal's engine house (known today as John Brown's Fort)  barricading themselves inside. <br />
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Meanwhile, An eastbound B&O train stopped by Brown's men earlier that morning was allowed to continue forward, whose conductor quickly wired a telegram reporting the raid to officials in Baltimore. In a matter of hours, Washington was alerted to the attack. President Buchanan dispatched a detachment of U.S. Marines led by Col. Robert E. Lee; future commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, to end the siege and capture John Brown. The Marines arrived in Harper's Ferry the next day. Brown refused to surrender himself in exchange for the lives of his remaining men, and the marines stormed the engine house to take Brown prisoner.
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  • A great blue heron stands on the edge of the C&O Canal at dusk. As seen from along the towpath at Great Falls in Potomac, MD. <br />
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The C&O Canal was created in the 1830's in an effort to connect the Ohio River Valley frontier with the East Coast. However, trains were beginning to come onto the scene around the time of construction. Beginning with the B&O Railroad based out of Baltimore, trains could carry much larger cargos than canal boats, travel faster and be constructed far easier than digging and dredging canals. Construction was halted at Cumberland Maryland, 100 miles west of Washington, as the railroad arrived at Pittsburgh, making the canals original purposes obsolete. Nonetheless, the canal was widely used for transportation of raw materials such as coal from mines in West Virginia. The canal fell into disuse by the 20th century, and the National Parks Service purchased the canal in the 1930's.
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  • Located 14 miles upstream from DC, Great Falls lies along the Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line where the Piedmont Plateau meets the Atlantic Coastal Plain. The series of cascades descend a total of 76 feet over less than a mile, making it the steepest fall line rapids of any river on the Eastern Seaboard. The falls themselves were created over thousands of years dating from the last ice age when the sea level dropped, resulting in the Potomac carving deep into the surrounding rock as it made its way to the Chesapeake.
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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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  • Sunrise. Dolly Sods Wilderness. Tucker County, West Virginia.
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  • Sunrise. Dolly Sods Wilderness. Tucker County, West Virginia.
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  • Starry Sky. 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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  • Sunrise. Dolly Sods Wilderness. Tucker County, West Virginia.
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  • Starry Sky. Dolly Sods Wilderness. Tucker County, West Virginia.
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  • The coastline of Big Sur is seen from a series of cliffs above the swirling seawater after a passing storm at dusk.
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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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  • 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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  • Glade Creek Grist Mill. Babcock State Park. West Virginia.
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  • Starry Sky over the Highland Scenic Highway. Monongahela National Forest. West Virginia
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  • Located 14 miles upstream from DC, Great Falls lies along the Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line where the Piedmont Plateau meets the Atlantic Coastal Plain. The series of cascades descend a total of 76 feet over less than a mile, making it the steepest fall line rapids of any river on the Eastern Seaboard. The falls themselves were created over thousands of years dating from the last ice age when the sea level dropped, resulting in the Potomac carving deep into the surrounding rock as it made its way to the Chesapeake.
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  • The C&O Canal (short for Chesapeake and Ohio) is seen at dusk along the towpath at Great Falls in Potomac, MD. <br />
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The C&O Canal was created in the 1830's in an effort to connect the Ohio River Valley frontier with the East Coast. However, trains were beginning to come onto the scene around the time of construction. Beginning with the B&O Railroad based out of Baltimore, trains could carry much larger cargos than canal boats, travel faster and be constructed far easier than digging and dredging canals. Construction was halted at Cumberland Maryland, 100 miles west of Washington, as the railroad arrived at Pittsburgh, making the canals original purposes obsolete. Nonetheless, the canal was widely used for transportation of raw materials such as coal from mines in West Virginia. The canal fell into disuse by the 20th century, and the National Parks Service purchased the canal in the 1930's.
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  • The town of Luray glows in the distance as passing cars light up the trees lining skyline drive in Shenandoah national park.
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  • Sunrise. Dolly Sods Wilderness. Tucker County, West Virginia.
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  • Starry Sky. Dolly Sods Wilderness. Tucker County, West Virginia.
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  • A woman holds an umbrella on a rainy day amidst fall colors at the Glade Creek Grist Mill inside Babcock State Park near Clifftop, W.Va., on Saturday, October 27, 2018.
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  • On the road to Dryfork. Route 32. West Virginia.
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  • A family takes pictures of themselves with yesterday's sunset from an overlook along skyline drive in Shenandoah national park.
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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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  • New River Gorge Bridge. Fayetteville, W.Va.
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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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