eCulturalResources Home Contact Us
Tell a friend about this site
 

Historic Preservation News


W.Va.’s heritage in jeopardy

12-14-05 - North America — , West Virginia

Most Endangered Historic Places list created to secure dozens of sites

" Weathered as gray as the leafless trees that surround it, the ghostly, 21/2-story frame of St. John’s Baptist Church rises from the steep hillside at the south end of the mostly abandoned former coal community of Stotesbury Camp. The church was built in 1918 by the E.E. White Coal Co. A large segment of the black population in the Raleigh County coalfields surrounding Stotesbury once passed through its doors and gathered under the shade trees surrounding it. Many former parishioners are buried in a cemetery behind the church, their names, birth dates, and dates of death chiseled on mossy, locally quarried sandstone markers. These days, the church’s only visitors are wind, rain, snow and the occasional vandal. St. John’s was abandoned in the early 1980s, when area coal mines played out and most of the church’s congregation moved to Beckley. It is in danger of going the way of Mark Twain High School, located less than a mile up the hollow, where Robert C. Byrd was valedictorian of the Class of 1934. Today, only a staircase leading to the vacant site of the former school remains. "

Full story: WVGazette.com
Contributed by: eCultural Resources

Note: Some links to articles might only be valid for a short period of time depending on the publisher and others might require registration. Please let us know of any errors you find. Thanks!

Related News: Historic Preservation

  More News

CONSULTANTS
Directory of cultural resource and historic preservation firms.
Find a Cultural Resource Consultant
Submit your Firm

Metcalf Archaeological Consultants, Inc
Employee-owned company providing CRM services in Colorado, North Dakota, and surrounding states
Colorado - 06-01-09

William Self Associates, Inc.
WSA, Inc. since 1988 has conducted large infrastructure projects (pipelines, transportation, mining, land development) throughout the U.S. WSA currently has 4 regional offices conducting historic, prehistoric, maritime and architectural research, assessm
Arizona - 04-28-09

Logan Simpson Design Inc.
LSD is an environmental planning and landscape architecture firm that offers a full range of cultural resources services throughout the Intermountain West. In addition to historic and prehistoric archaeologists, our staff includes professional historic p
Arizona - 11-06-08

Daly & Associates
Qualified Architectural Historian with Master of Science degree in Historic Preservation.
California - 04-22-05

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Cultural resource industry events and announcements
Submit an Announcement

ARCHAEOLOGISTS WANTED FOR HISTORY CHANNEL TV SERIES!
This expert and the students will be a part of a small team that will travel to several digs in Egypt with the infamous Dr. Zahi Hawass. (If the expert and/or the students have experience in Egyptology even better, but this is not a requirement.)
06-30-09

Giving Heritage A Helping Hand: HCN Offers Volunteer Vacation Opportunities in World Heritage Sites
Travellers looking to give something back can contribute to cultural heritage preservation projects at World Heritage sites in Kenya and Albania while traveling with Heritage Conservation Network next year.
06-11-09

Statewide Historic Preservation Contractors to Conduct Activity II, III and IV Studies (Kansas)
The Kansas Department of Transportation [KDOT] is required by federal and state regulations to identify and document historic/architectural (cultural) and archeological resources which may meet the criteria of significance for listing in the National Register of Historic Places, and which may be affected by proposed state and local highway systems improvement projects.
06-05-09

Archaeological Assessments throughout the Okanagan-Columbia BA
Sealed tenders for the Archaeological Assessments throughout the Okanagan-Columbia
Business Area will be received by the Okanagan-Columbia BC Timber Sales Office.

06-05-09

HCN to Tweet From Historic Preservation Projects
Heritage Conservation Network, a non profit that offers volunteer vacations at heritage sites, will be tweeting from its projects this summer. You can follow them at www.twitter.com/handsonhistory.
05-12-09

:: More Announcements ::
 
Copyright © 2004 eCulturalResources.com All rights reserved.
Cultural Resource Network
Contact usPrivacy Policy | Terms of Use