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Hats off to the West Virginia Gazette both for featuring the significant preservation stories below in the first place, and then for allowing us to link to their coverage:
PAWV connects
At makeshift workbenches outside the Wyco church, students reglaze recently removed windows.
Rick Steelhammer
WYCO, W.Va. -- Built on a bluff overlooking Allen Creek in
1917 by coal baron W.P. Tams and abandoned 80 years later
after the mines around Wyco Coal Camp C played out, Wyco
Community Church has seen better days.
Its roof in need of major repairs, its interior damaged by
leaking water and its frame propped up by cribbing, the
weather-beaten Gothic revival church was placed on the West
Virginia Preservation Alliance's Most Endangered Properties
List in 2009.
Read the article online at:http://wvgazette.
Volunteers work to save iron bridge
Rusty nameplates display the contractors and completion date for the Gilmer County span.
By Rick Steelhammer
Staff writer
GLENVILLE, W.Va. -- Built 125
years ago over a wide stretch of the Little Kanawha River in downtown
Glenville once used as a turnaround site for sternwheelers, the Glenville
Truss Bridge now rusts in peace atop its cut stone pilings, unused but not
unloved. Last weekend, a group of volunteers led by Lynn Stasick of the West
Virginia Preservation Alliance and WVU history professor emeritus Emory
Kemp, removed damaged truss components and decking from a section of bridge
on the north bank of the river that collapsed in February.
Read the article online at:http://wvgazette.com/Outdoors/20100513064
