New River Gorge - Paperback

by J. Scott Legg (Author), Fayette County Chamber of Com (A) (Author)

Today visitors to the New River Gorge see a steep gorge filled with a lush hardwood forest. Before the railroad, the New River, with its whitewater rapids, was a barrier to trade, but with the 1873 completion of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, the gorge