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The grueling 24 hour mountain bike race at Snowshoe Mountain Resort in Pocahontas County West Virginia. DEVIL ANSE HATFIELD GRAVE - located in the Hatfield cemetery, Logan County WV \n\nDEVIL ANSE HATFIELD \nFeudist/Entrepreneur \n1839-1921 \n\nWilliam "Devil Anse" Hatfield, patriarch of the Hatfield clan, has come to represent the stereotypical feuding mountaineer. However, contrary to popular opinion, Anse was far from primitive or uncivilized. After serving the Confederacy in the Civil War, the enterprising Anse became a relatively successful entrepreneur of a timbering operation. This line of business sparked many land disputes, a possible cause of the Hatfield-McCoy feud. No one really knows what started the 15-year skirmish, whose history has become fraught with many myths and misconceptions. JOHN HENRY STATUE - located in Talcott, Summers County, WV.\n Though the story of John Henry sounds like the quintessential tall tale, it is certainly based, at least in part, on historical circumstance.\n In order to construct the railroads, companies hired thousands of men to smooth out terrain and cut through obstacles that stood in the way of the proposed tracks. One such chore that figures heavily into some of the earliest John Henry ballads is the blasting of the Big Bend Tunnel -- more than a mile straight through a mountain in West Virginia. \n\nSteel-drivin' men like John Henry used large hammers and stakes to pound holes into the rock, which were then filled with explosives that would blast a cavity deeper and deeper into the mountain. In the folk ballads, the central event took place under such conditions. Eager to reduce costs and speed up progress, some tunnel engineers were using steam drills to power their way into the rock. According to some accounts, on hearing of the machine, John Henry challenged the steam drill to a contest. He won, but died of exhaustion, his life cut short by his own superhuman effort. St. Andrews Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia. Site of the first mothers day celebration, held in this church on May 10, 1908. Also location of the International Mothers Day Shrine. The New River Batteau Festival is sponsored by New River Gorge National River and the Virginia Canals and Navigations Society as a part of the 25th Anniversary of New River Gorge National River. The Festival is a re-enactment of Collis P. Huntington’s 1869 survey trip down the New River from Hinton to Hawks Nest by batteau. Members of the Virginia Canals and Navigations Society are bringing their batteaux to recreate the historic journey. Batteaumen dressed in period clothing will pole their 40-foot wooden batteaux down the river camping along the way.