WEST VIRGINIA: Touring Rural Towns In One Of The Poorest States

all right everybody i am uh i'm in west virginia i'll give you a look-see where i'm at i'm in a little bird called mason town i'm going to uh explore some rural west virginia in this video but first i'll show you where i'm at uh you see morgantown over here that's where the university of west virginia is but i am going to kind of explore this little corner of rural west virginia actually stay below the interstate there uh give you an idea where i'm at this is pennsylvania and this is maryland so uh that's where i'm going to be driving around um i got to tell you guys west virginia is beautiful wow we drove we started in huntington and drove through charleston uh up to uh morgantown and it was gorgeous all the towns uh kind of tucked in the mountain crevices there always a river or a creek absolutely beautiful the last time we were here in west virginia was winter and it looked very different than it does now it is just gorgeous here in the summer but anyway i'm going to take a little tour of uh some of the small towns here in rural west virginia so uh that is what you're going to be seeing it's an abandoned trailer here nobody living in that uh oh chickens yeah you know you're in the country then chickens are on the road okay i'm entering kingwood now um wow look at that that is quite a pool set up isn't it that's pretty cool let's take a drive into a neighborhood now this in a nutshell is what it's like to drive in much of west virginia you got hills everywhere almost all the homes are situated on hills so it's really for me an interesting thing coming uh from flat texas that dog barking away i don't think he's barking at me though i think i'm going to uh go on on back up to the road and head back into town though just want to see this quiet little area look at those four i guess they're trees but uh looks like they uh they're not alive such an interesting place isn't it look at that tiny little house two stories it's like can you picture what it must look like inside that house so fascinating looking anyway uh and look at all this traffic but i'm gonna head into uh the main city part of kingwood now okay just uh continuing on into kingwood soaking up the sights checking out some of the homes here and the folks who are out on her porches just to hanging out a lot of beautiful homes here yeah i'm almost in downtown but i saw this i want to stop and take a look at it [Music] with the church bells in the background [Music] but look at this [Music] a little moment in time huh this old gas station [Music] uh they have smartly kept in uh like museum condition [Music] that is something isn't it that is pretty awesome i'm impressed hey this sunday morning by the way just just in case you're wondering but this looks like the downtown so i'm gonna go driving through there right now well let's go see what downtown kingwood looks like this is a little bit bigger town uh almost 3 100 people here [Music] so it might see a little bit more stuff hmm i'm just gonna go straight through the light here and turn around yeah that is an old rexall drugs you see them occasionally hmm that's a cool building across the street there though isn't it former bank it looks like the uh now is an attorney's office this is uh west virginia you're gonna be driving on some hills anyway i'm going to make my way to my next small town that's called rollsberg i am in what looks like a former trailer graveyard or a current trailer graveyard i should say i mean nobody lives in those look how rickety that is i mean that wouldn't take much of a wind to blow those over that's crazy huh australian siri is telling me that i need to make a right to get to the downtown it's not going to be big in 900 feet 10 left onto poplar street according to australian series 900 feet away so here we are main street roseburg wow i'm gonna have to make a pass through this lookie here huh i'm gonna go this way and then turn around and get another look all right let's take a look from this way shall we well look at there hmm this is pretty much it it is a very small town a lot of character here though this main street garden nice wow that looks like a lot of people are in church huh catholic church founded 1862. look at that huh town just kind of ends right here look at these beautiful old homes how cool all right folks that's rollsberg there is no phone service here look at that on the left-hand corner there i'm trying to plug in uh the next town and i can't i'm driving blind yeah no internet i'm sorry no phone service in roseburg how about that let me give you another glimpse from this direction that is something isn't it i mean this town is just sitting right here in the mountains wow all right i'm gonna have to try to figure out how to get to my next town i'm gonna have to look at a map well i consulted my map and i'm on my way now i'm still in roseburg that's just amazing visually i got to tell you guys let me see if i can yeah see the couple streets of the town something wow that's a little uh graveyard here see if i back the camera around you can see the town pretty pretty good from this way picturesque isn't it well still no phone service yet but i believe i'm heading in the right direction just checking out the sites see that confederate flag wow not sure where i am now this doesn't even show up on the map that says buffalo green bar oh across the street here i don't know if you can see that sign but it says coal for sale i guess if you want to buy some coal that's where you go all right i am turning onto frog hollow road it says frog hollow road turn right onto bank street all right so uh tunnelton here we come and wow this is a tiny little road i mean look at this this should be interesting i mean this is barely wide enough for two cars ah and the sights wow it's an amazing road isn't it basically halfway up into these mountains oh yeah this is wow something to see what must turn right onto bank street then arrive at your destination all right australian siri uh it's hard to imagine what life must be like here now there's only about 300 people in this town so there's uh not going to be any grocery stores or if there are they're going to be tiny wow look at that over there definitely got to go down there and take a look i got to somehow get across these uh railroad tracks though looks like uh i can get across right here not across but under wow all right let's go check it out over there i'm pretty sure those are not street legal that was me as a dumb kid though i'm not gonna lie lived on motorcycles anyway i'm gonna go up here and take a right wow look at this give you a little view what i'm driving up this is something oh very steep hill and a really rough road that's how i can just describe this to you it's gonna go up here looks like the town ends right up here and uh you know i'll turn around wow beware of dog i bet looks like we got a truck driver right here and that's pretty much the end of the town at least in this direction i'm going to turn around oh wow how about that huh back up and out of here have him i'm gonna head back down i've got a fire hydrant right there you think that's operational hard to say man this this is a rough road uh oh i've got one little bar there so maybe i can plug in the next town yeah i want to give you another look here though this is something is that a tub showing you the other side wow well all right oh man i just put two new tires on this thing i am definitely glad i did that all right i'm heading to the next town of newburgh i'm about to get on raccoon valley road in 4.9 miles turn left onto north mountaineer highway all right thank you australian siri yeah this one might even be a worse road than the last one now i'm continuing my drive to newburgh besides stop take a quick look at this oops something happened there i mean it looks like the house just slid off the hill wow that it is desolate up here newberg looks like uh quite the place they're right on to austin road yeah australian series 100 feet arrive at neighbor well she's telling me where to go isn't she here we go this looks like a town wow chuck's store he sells gas too you look at this i think i'm just gonna keep going straight through i'm just going to head into town here actually i think i'm already out of the city center see some houses up there on the hills let me turn around give you a view from the other side newberg west virginia yeah that needs some work doesn't it got some pretty awesome houses here yeah i'm gonna turn around show you what it looks like the other direction okay so i've turned around and show you what's up here uh definitely a mountain town i'm gonna have to go up there and take a look too there's some really nice houses up there huh so i'm gonna head in here uh first national bank used to be say i love this building chuck store one stop shopping that is really awesome building see what else we can see up here well the railroad comes up here huh i mean look at these homes they could use a little uh work but none of them small let's climb up this hill it's a logging nah just kidding the bronco can handle it easily all right so uh yeah let's take a look from up here hopefully the camera is capturing it because it is pretty freaking awesome view of this whole mountain town of newburgh huh i don't know what this is maybe an old school house another nice view beautiful house there uh we got something of a mishap here though it looks like wow huh oh somebody's got a cool uh above ground pool there yeah turn the bronco off to just enjoy the silence of this honestly lovely little town way up here in the mountains in rural west virginia there's a church right there you can hear some people talking outside of that but there's no wind it's really quiet and nice not a bad place to retire or if you were a person who can work from home what a great place yeah i'm still in this town of newburgh lovely house here but oh boy look at this steep uh grade coming down can you imagine this in the winter yeah forget about it just going to drive real slow how nice huh oh i didn't put my seatbelt on all right all right all right that was something i kind of love this little town i'm not going to lie to you guys newberg west virginia population 275 it says that's what my notes say nice very nice i'm just outside grafton uh no hoa here wow look at that old house see that corner room that was a beautiful house at one time i hate to see it in this kind of disrepair huh all right i'm in the small town of thornton we got ourselves a bathing beauty here nice wow got a few uh empty homes here a real tiny place as you can see continuing through thornton just outside of grafton quite little place a little bit of uh neglect here and there okay i'm a couple miles outside of grafton checking out the sites there's a building here uh it says it's open hard to say what that uh business is but um maybe it's some kind of secret bar yeah yeah all right on to grafton i go all right i have arrived in grafton wow what a town i can already tell it's a little bit bigger there's about uh i want to say 3 000 people my notes blew somewhere but uh look at this ah built up here in the hills turn right onto john street then turn right onto west main street all right well australian siri is instructing me to make a right-hand turn right here and go into that let's get a good look at this holy cow at the stop sign turn right onto west main street then the destination is on your right all right well i think we need sirius helped us all we need look at this huh i think my cuddle left drive down this way a little and then turn around look at that building right there let's pull into this parking lot holy cow let me turn around here what is this i is it empty i hope not uh it's in bad disrepair though look at the lamps there on the right side they're missing the bulbs or the globes fascinating town here okay i'm on the main street here of grafton look at that now this is a town with character look at all this a big old mural there's the town there what that old building is wow now that's downtown right there that main street i'm kind of above town here well a street above anyway that is something i hope you could see all that see the homes on the side of the mountain there the layout of this town is it's just beautiful the way it sits in the mountains beware of dog see that a lot up here see the tops of the buildings wow look at this house right here is that the backyard i don't see a road to this it's this home here how do you get to it look at that you guys seen what i'm seeing i mean there's no driveway uh no driveway there i guess they just park across the street here same with this one that's the way down to that house they have to walk down the stairwell or stairway and yeah there's that's something huh i see a road down there now i wonder if i can get to it okay yeah there is a road down here okay yeah i guess these are these houses that we're just looking at just look at that house can you imagine having a front yard that looks like that that's this person's front yard how do you even mow that that has got to be so difficult wow this is their yards see that house was once really beautiful it's in bad shape now but it was once really beautiful that's the craziest thing yeah i am uh making my way back into downtown it looks like so uh yeah i'm going to end the video here because i can already tell that lengthwise it is getting out of control okay like i said earlier uh i'm gonna end the video here it's um getting way too long i can tell uh i was gonna explore another 10 towns or so but um yeah you'd have like a two-hour long video then so um this is it the wife and i will be going to morgantown west virginia next uh that will be the next video so be looking for that foreign

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Published: Mon Aug 29 2022