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Model of Cabin No. 8 at Cacapon Resort State Park, near Berkeley Springs in Morgan County, West Virginia

Model of Cabin No. 8 at Cacapon Resort State Park, near Berkeley Sprin...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Opened in 1933, the 6,115-acre rustic resort is located on the eastern slopes of Cacapon Mountain. The small model was built by the Ci... More

Golf course at Cacapon Resort State Park, near Berkeley Springs in Morgan County, West Virginia

Golf course at Cacapon Resort State Park, near Berkeley Springs in Mor...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Opened in 1933, the 6,115-acre rustic resort is located on the eastern slopes of Cacapon Mountain. Credit line: West Virginia Collecti... More

The Cass Scenic Railroad's Shay Locomotive #5 pulls past a water tower enroute to the station in Cass, West Virginia

The Cass Scenic Railroad's Shay Locomotive #5 pulls past a water tower...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed to climb the steepest grades, swing around hairpin curves and negotiate frail temporary tracks, this direct-gear Shay logging... More

Cacapon Lodge at Cacapon Resort State Park, near Berkeley Springs in Morgan County, West Virginia

Cacapon Lodge at Cacapon Resort State Park, near Berkeley Springs in M...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Opened in 1933, the 6,115-acre rustic resort is located on the eastern slopes of Cacapon Mountain. Credit line: West Virginia Collecti... More

Model of a cabin at Cacapon Resort State Park, near Berkeley Springs in Morgan County, West Virginia

Model of a cabin at Cacapon Resort State Park, near Berkeley Springs i...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Opened in 1933, the 6,115-acre rustic resort is located on the eastern slopes of Cacapon Mountain. The small model was built by the Ci... More

Cacapon Lodge at Cacapon Resort State Park, near Berkeley Springs in Morgan County, West Virginia

Cacapon Lodge at Cacapon Resort State Park, near Berkeley Springs in M...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Opened in 1933, the 6,115-acre rustic resort is located on the eastern slopes of Cacapon Mountain. Credit line: West Virginia Collecti... More

The combination mayor's office (above) and jail (downstairs), built in 1902 in the old West Virginia Pulp & Paper "company town" of Cass within what is now (2015) the Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in West Virginia

The combination mayor's office (above) and jail (downstairs), built in...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Nearby are old lumber and planing mills and the 11-mile railroad line that carried logs down from the mountainside during the period o... More

The Glade Creek Grist Mill, a fully operable mill was built in 1976 in West Virginia's Babcock State Park as a recreation, made from parts of three old mills, of Cooper's Mill, which burned to the ground in the 1920s and ground grain on Glade Creek long before Babcock became a state park. The replacement building is one of the most-photographed structures in the state

The Glade Creek Grist Mill, a fully operable mill was built in 1976 in...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

The Glade Creek Grist Mill, a fully operable mill was built in 1976 in West Virginia's Babcock State Park as a re-creation, made from parts of three old mills, of Cooper's Mill, which burned to the ground in the 1920s andground grain on Glade Creek long before Babcock became a state park. The replacement building is one of the most-photographed structures in the state

The Glade Creek Grist Mill, a fully operable mill was built in 1976 in...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

The United Methodist Church in the old West Virginia Pulp & Paper "company town" of Cass within what is now (2015) the Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in West Virginia

The United Methodist Church in the old West Virginia Pulp & Paper "com...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Nearby are old lumber and planing mills and the 11-mile railroad line that carried logs down from the mountainside during the period o... More

Locomotive No. 4 chugs through the trainyard at Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in Cass, West Virginia

Locomotive No. 4 chugs through the trainyard at Cass Scenic Railroad S...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

The Job Prickett House at the reconstructed fort at Prickett's Fort State Park, a 22-acre West Virginia state park north of Fairmont, near the confluence of Prickett's Creek and the Monongahela River

The Job Prickett House at the reconstructed fort at Prickett's Fort St...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The park commemorates life on the Virginia frontier (when West Virginia was part of Virginia) during the late 18th century. Prickett's... More

A classic direct gear locomotive pulls cars of tourists into the station at Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in Cass, West Virginia

A classic direct gear locomotive pulls cars of tourists into the stati...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed to climb the steepest grades, swing around hairpin curves and negotiate frail temporary tracks, such locomotives pulled incre... More

A classic direct gear locomotive pushes cars of tourists out of the station at Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in Cass, West Virginia

A classic direct gear locomotive pushes cars of tourists out of the st...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed to climb the steepest grades, swing around hairpin curves and negotiate frail temporary tracks, such locomotives pulled incre... More

A logging locomotive and tender round the bend past an old water tank near the Cass Scenic Railroad station in Cass, West Virginia

A logging locomotive and tender round the bend past an old water tank ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The 11-mile line, high into the mountains, as well as the old "company town" of Cass and what's left of what was once an enormous lumb... More

Riding horses get a break in Pipestem Resort State Park in Mercer County, West Virginia

Riding horses get a break in Pipestem Resort State Park in Mercer Coun...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

Locomotive No. 4 chugs into the trainyard at Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in Cass, West Virginia

Locomotive No. 4 chugs into the trainyard at Cass Scenic Railroad Stat...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

The Glade Creek Grist Mill, a fully operable mill was built in 1976 in West Virginia's Babcock State Park as a recreation, made from parts of three old mills, of Cooper's Mill, which burned to the ground in the 1920s and ground grain on Glade Creek long before Babcock became a state park. The replacement building is one of the most-photographed structures in the state

The Glade Creek Grist Mill, a fully operable mill was built in 1976 in...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

Locomotive No. 4 literally blows off steam at Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in Cass, West Virginia

Locomotive No. 4 literally blows off steam at Cass Scenic Railroad Sta...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed to climb the steepest grades, swing around hairpin curves and negotiate frail temporary tracks, this direct-gear Shay logging... More

The reconstructed fort at Prickett's Fort State Park, a 22-acre West Virginia state park north of Fairmont, near the confluence of Prickett's Creek and the Monongahela River

The reconstructed fort at Prickett's Fort State Park, a 22-acre West V...

Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

This planing mill and a larger, steel lumber mill next door, just down the track from the Cass Scenic Railroad station in Cass, were once symbols symbol of the economic power of timber and the lumber business in early 21st-Century West Virginia

This planing mill and a larger, steel lumber mill next door, just down...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Now (2015) only twisted steel and rusted machinery remain above cracking cement. Trees and vines grow in a place where humans once toi... More

This looks like a factory building, but it was the old hay barn in the old West Virginia Pulp & Paper "company town" of Cass within what is now (2015) the Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in West Virginia

This looks like a factory building, but it was the old hay barn in the...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The hay was stored for horses that originally carried logs down from the nearby mountains. Across the way from this barn are lumber an... More

A row of railroad families' cottages in the old West Virginia Pulp & Paper "company town" of Cass within what is now (2015) the Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in West Virginia

A row of railroad families' cottages in the old West Virginia Pulp & P...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Nearby are old lumber and planing mills and the 11-mile railroad line that carried logs down from the mountainside during the period o... More

Rows of railroad families' cottages in the old West Virginia Pulp & Paper "company town" of Cass within what is now (2015) the Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in West Virginia

Rows of railroad families' cottages in the old West Virginia Pulp & Pa...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Nearby are old lumber and planing mills and the 11-mile railroad line that carried logs down from the mountainside during the period o... More

Blacksmith shop outside the reconstructed fort at Prickett's Fort State Park, a 22-acre West Virginia state park north of Fairmont, near the confluence of Prickett's Creek and the Monongahela River

Blacksmith shop outside the reconstructed fort at Prickett's Fort Stat...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The park commemorates life on the Virginia frontier (when West Virginia was part of Virginia) during the late 18th century. Prickett's... More

Barber shop in the old West Virginia Pulp & Paper "company town" of Cass within what is now (2015) the Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in West Virginia

Barber shop in the old West Virginia Pulp & Paper "company town" of Ca...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Nearby are old lumber and planing mills and the 11-mile railroad line that carried logs down from the mountainside during the period o... More

Miniature models of cabins at Cacapon Resort State Park, near Berkeley Springs in Morgan County, West Virginia

Miniature models of cabins at Cacapon Resort State Park, near Berkeley...

Public domain photograph of public works, FDR administration, New Deal, Great Depression, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A row of railroad families' cottages in the old West Virginia Pulp & Paper "company town" of Cass within what is now (2015) the Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in West Virginia

A row of railroad families' cottages in the old West Virginia Pulp & P...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Nearby are old lumber and planing mills and the 11-mile railroad line that carried logs down from the mountainside during the period o... More

The reconstructed fort at Prickett's Fort State Park, a 22-acre West Virginia state park north of Fairmont, near the confluence of Prickett's Creek and the Monongahela River

The reconstructed fort at Prickett's Fort State Park, a 22-acre West V...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The park commemorates life on the Virginia frontier (when West Virginia was part of Virginia) during the late 18th century. Prickett's... More

The Glade Creek Grist Mill, a fully operable mill was built in 1976 in West Virginia's Babcock State Park as a recreation, made from parts of three old mills, of Cooper's Mill, which burned to the ground in the 1920s and ground grain on Glade Creek long before Babcock became a state park. The replacement building is one of the most-photographed structures in the state

The Glade Creek Grist Mill, a fully operable mill was built in 1976 in...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

The Glade Creek Grist Mill, a fully operable mill was built in 1976 in West Virginia's Babcock State Park as a re-creation, made from parts of three old mills, of Cooper's Mill, which burned to the ground in the 1920s andground grain on Glade Creek long before Babcock became a state park. The replacement building is one of the most-photographed structures in the state

The Glade Creek Grist Mill, a fully operable mill was built in 1976 in...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

The Glade Creek Grist Mill, a fully operable mill was built in 1976 in West Virginia's Babcock State Park as a recreation, made from parts of three old mills, of Cooper's Mill, which burned to the ground in the 1920s and ground grain on Glade Creek long before Babcock became a state park. The replacement building is one of the most-photographed structures in the state

The Glade Creek Grist Mill, a fully operable mill was built in 1976 in...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

Once a symbol of the economic power of timber and the lumber business in early 21st-Century West Virginia, this mill building, just down the track from the Cass Scenic Railroad station in Cass, was beset by two enormous fires, in 1978 and 1982

Once a symbol of the economic power of timber and the lumber business ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Now (2015) only twisted steel and rusted machinery remain above cracking cement. Trees and vines grow in a place where humans once toi... More

Locomotive No. 3 at Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in Cass, West Virginia

Locomotive No. 3 at Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in Cass, West Virg...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed to climb the steepest grades, swing around hairpin curves and negotiate frail temporary tracks, this direct-gear Shay logging... More

Smoke from a direct-gear logging locomotive nearly obscures the depot at Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in Cass, West Virginia

Smoke from a direct-gear logging locomotive nearly obscures the depot ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed to climb the steepest grades, swing around hairpin curves and negotiate frail temporary tracks, such locomotives pulled incre... More

Once a symbol of the economic power of timber and the lumber business in early 21st-Century West Virginia, this mill building, just down the track from the Cass Scenic Railroad station in Cass, was beset by two enormous fires, in 1978 and 1982

Once a symbol of the economic power of timber and the lumber business ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Now (2015) only twisted steel and rusted machinery remain above cracking cement. Trees and vines grow in a place where humans once toi... More

A classic direct gear locomotive pushes cars of tourists out of the station at Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in Cass, West Virginia

A classic direct gear locomotive pushes cars of tourists out of the st...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed to climb the steepest grades, swing around hairpin curves and negotiate frail temporary tracks, such locomotives pulled incre... More

Locomotive No. 4 chugs through the trainyard at Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in Cass, West Virginia

Locomotive No. 4 chugs through the trainyard at Cass Scenic Railroad S...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed to climb the steepest grades, swing around hairpin curves and negotiate frail temporary tracks, this direct-gear Shay logging... More

A scrapped yard engine the Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in West Virginia, where geared engines once pulled cars of heavy logs down from the mountainside during the period of widespread logging and deforestation of the state in the early 21st Century. Other rail cars now (in 2015) carry carloads of tourists up and down the mountain

A scrapped yard engine the Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in West Vir...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

The Job Prickett House at the reconstructed fort at Prickett's Fort State Park, a 22-acre West Virginia state park north of Fairmont, near the confluence of Prickett's Creek and the Monongahela River

The Job Prickett House at the reconstructed fort at Prickett's Fort St...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The park commemorates life on the Virginia frontier (when West Virginia was part of Virginia) during the late 18th century. Prickett's... More

Cabin and obelisk monument at Point Pleaasant Battle Monument State Park, called Tu-Endie-Wei Park locally, in Point Pleasant, a city on the Ohio River in West Virginia

Cabin and obelisk monument at Point Pleaasant Battle Monument State Pa...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The monument recalls the Battle of Point Pleasant, the most significant event of "Lord Dunmore's War," fought at the confluence of the... More

Statue of a Virginia frontiersman on a monument at Point Pleaasant Battle Monument State Park, called Tu-Endie-Wei Park locally, in Point Pleasant, a city on the Ohio River in West Virginia

Statue of a Virginia frontiersman on a monument at Point Pleaasant Bat...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The monument recalls the Battle of Point Pleasant, the most significant event of "Lord Dunmore's War," fought at the confluence of the... More

A classic direct gear locomotive pushes cars of tourists out of the station at Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in Cass, West Virginia

A classic direct gear locomotive pushes cars of tourists out of the st...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed to climb the steepest grades, swing around hairpin curves and negotiate frail temporary tracks, such locomotives pulled incre... More

Smoke from a direct-gear logging locomotive nearly obscures the depot at Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in Cass, West Virginia

Smoke from a direct-gear logging locomotive nearly obscures the depot ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed to climb the steepest grades, swing around hairpin curves and negotiate frail temporary tracks, such locomotives pulled incre... More

A classic direct gear locomotive pushes cars of tourists out of the station at Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in Cass, West Virginia

A classic direct gear locomotive pushes cars of tourists out of the st...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed to climb the steepest grades, swing around hairpin curves and negotiate frail temporary tracks, such locomotives pulled incre... More

Blacksmith shop outside the reconstructed fort at Prickett's Fort State Park, a 22-acre West Virginia state park north of Fairmont, near the confluence of Prickett's Creek and the Monongahela River

Blacksmith shop outside the reconstructed fort at Prickett's Fort Stat...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The park commemorates life on the Virginia frontier (when West Virginia was part of Virginia) during the late 18th century. Prickett's... More

Train depot in the old West Virginia Pulp & Paper "company town" of Cass within what is now (2015) the Cass Scenic Railroad State Park in West Virginia

Train depot in the old West Virginia Pulp & Paper "company town" of Ca...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Adjacent are old lumber and planing mills and the 11-mile railroad line that carried logs down from the mountainside during the period... More