West Virginia’s history is filled with as many twists and turns as our famed country roads. Here you’ll find Native American burial mounds still standing in towns like South Charleston and Moundsville; re-creations of frontier forts such as Prickett’s Fort State Park in Fairmont; sites that recognize the heritage of our early presidents, like George Washington’s Bathtub and Jefferson Rock in the Eastern Panhandle; and locations of great battles, like the Revolutionary War’s Battle of Point Pleasant.
Of course, that doesn’t even include the state’s rich Civil War history. re-enactments, historic dramas and theater productions, and 18 Civil War Discovery Trail Stops, such as the Philippi Covered Bridge, that commemorate the conflict that led to the creation of the State of West Virginia.