West Virginia Travel Guide 2009 - (Page 31) Coming in Spring 2009 - the New West Virginia State Museum! West Virginia Day Vandalia Gathering Grave Creek Mound Juried While in the Northern Panhandle, stop at the collections of the West Virginia Exhibition the West Virginia Independence Hall Museum in State Museum and State Archives as Wheeling. Here, you step back in time to the well as local and regional history. The museum hosts American Civil War–an era of political intrigue, family activities and participates in park events, includtreason, loyalty oaths and the threat of rebel invasion. ing the Aunt Jennie Fest, the Aracoma Story, and the The Hall celebrates West Virginia Day every June 20. Fall Festival. Originally built as a federal custom house in 1859, the Set on an 83-acre wooded, hillside tract in Fayette facility is considered the birthplace of West Virginia. County near Babcock State Park and the New River Designated a National Historic Landmark, it also is Gorge, Camp Washington-Carver is rich in both the listed on the Civil War Discovery Trail. history of the area and in the heritage of West Virginia’s African-American residents. It was built between Travel just a few miles south and visit Grave Creek 1939-42 by local craftsmen who made the camp’s original Mound Archaeological Complex in Moundsville. structures from native logs and stones. The camp preIt features the famous burial mound built by the sents the annual Appalachian String Band Music Festiprehistoric Adena people between 250-150 B.C. The val, which att racts visitors from across the country and complex also houses the Delf Norona Museum. A around the world. “Sweets and Sounds,” a musical conrecently completed 9,600-square-foot wing holds a cert series, is scheduled in the fall in the Great Chestnut state-of-the-art collections storage area, a conservation Lodge. The camp also is used as a beautiful retreat laboratory, library and observation area where visitors for family reunions, weddings and corporate events. can watch activity in the lab. Museum in the To learn more about events and activities at any of our sites please call: Park located in Chief THE CULTURAL CENTER Logan State Park just Reader Response 11 outside of Logan, is a WV INDEPENDENCE HALL regional cultural center Reader Response 12 showcasing the best in GRAVE CREEK MOUND West Virginia history ARCHAEOLOGICAL COMPLEX Reader Response 13 and the arts. It offers MUSEUM IN THE PARK changing exhibits and Reader Response 14 displays of artwork and CAMP WASHINGTON-CARVER Dance historical objects from Reader Response 15 Festival Visit our website at www.wvculture.org EEO/AA Employer http://www.wvculture.org
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