Historic Inns of Southern West Virginia

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Ed Robinson has spent nearly twenty-five years coaching, advising, teaching, and working alongside hundreds of business and nonprofit leaders. His professional and personal mission is to "change the world for the better, one leader at a time." He is honored and proud to have a front-row seat to some amazing professional journeys and business accomplishments.

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Southern West Virginia possesses great natural beauty and a rich history in which lodging has played a significant role. This book traces the evolution of lodging in the area from the late 1700s to the present. The various types of accommodations included log cabins; lodging in rail, coal, and lumber communities; picturesque stagecoach stops; state parks; bed-and-breakfasts; and opulent mineral springs hotels. During the Civil War, many of the springs hotels and stagecoach stops were used for army hospitals and headquarters. This volume provides glimpses of quaint towns such as Bramwell, Fayetteville, Union, and Lewisburg, as well as the more commercial towns of Princeton, Bluefield, Hinton, Beckley, Glen Jean, Gary, Cass, Ronceverte, Marlinton, Coalwood, Rainelle, and Glen Rogers.