Running Piney Creek Road between Beaver and Beckley — and the story underneath it.

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The drive back out of Raleigh on a July evening.

Every road in West Virginia's coal country, one at a time. Follow along 👇

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Harper Road in Beckley, near the Kroger whose roof came down in the February 1998 blizzard — two feet of wet snow frozen solid, then two mor…

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Driving Sprague, the unincorporated piece of Raleigh County that grew up shoulder to shoulder with Beckley — close enough that I didn't figu…

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Rolling the bench southeast of Beckley — Shady Spring and Daniels, Raleigh County.

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Rolling through East Beckley on the edge of Beckley proper — Raleigh County, the coalfield plateau where the land finally flattens out enoug…

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Rolling through Beckley on the commercial fringe — Hylton Lane country, the part of town that grew out toward the turnpike interchange the w…

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Harper Park Drive on the western side of Beckley — Raleigh County, southern West Virginia, deep in the old smokeless-coal country.

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