On Little Kanawha Parkway (West Virginia Route 5) 0.9 miles north of Straight Creek-Burning Spring Road, on the right when traveling north.
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On April 20, 1863, Confederate Gens. William E. “Grumble” Jones and John D. Imboden began a raid from Virginia through present-day West Virginia on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Taking separate routes, they later reported . . . — — Map (db m73467) HM
On Little Kanawha Parkway (West Virginia Route 5) 0.9 miles north of Straight Creek-Burning Spring Road (County Route 34), on the left when traveling east.
On May 9, 1863. a large force of
Jones-Imboden raiders rode into
Burning Springs and destroyed the
local oil industry by setting fire
to at least 80 wells and damaging
other necessities of the trade.
Staying until the morning of the
10th, the . . . — — Map (db m174380) HM
On Little Kanawha Parkway (West Virginia Route 5) 0.1 miles west of Straight Creek-Burning Spring Road (County Route 34), on the left when traveling east.
The population center of the
United States was in present
West Virginia four times as
it moved westward across the
nation: near Wardensville in
1820; at Smoke Hole in 1830;
west of Buckhannon in 1840;
near Burning Springs in 1850. — — Map (db m174387) HM
On Little Kanawha Parkway (West Virginia Route 5) 0.9 miles north of Straight Creek-Burning Spring Road (County Route 24), on the right when traveling north.
The first well in West Virginia drilled solely for petroleum was located near the mouth of Burning Springs Run. The well was drilled with a “spring pole” by the Rathbones and others from Parkersburg, begun in 1859 completed May 1860. Produced at the . . . — — Map (db m73463) HM WM
On Little Kanawha Parkway (West Virginia Route 5) at Chestnut Run Road (Local Road 35/6), on the left when traveling south on Little Kanawha Parkway.
One of the oldest “still attended” churches in the state, it was built in 1835 of hand-hewed logs. Much effort has been expended on the preservation of church's original appearance. It is heated by a pot-bellied stove and lighted by kerosene . . . — — Map (db m73491) HM
