How A West Virginia Mayor Transformed His Small Town
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Marlinton Mayor Sam Felton is helping to lead the resurgence of Pocahontas County, the least populated area in "Wild & Wonderful" West Virginia. Subscribe for more like this https://www.youtube.com/TheDailyConve... Marlinton (has no "g") is the oldest continuous English settlement west of Alleghenies, where the town (1749) is older than the county (1821) and the county is older than the state (1863). https://townofmarlintonwv.com/ https://monforesttowns.org/ Pocahontas County density https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocahon... Marlinton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlint... Greenbrier river trail https://www.greenbrierrivertrail.com/ Marlin and Sewell https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/entrie... Ride Snowshoe Highlands https://ridesnowshoehighlands.com/ Monday Lick trail https://monforesttowns.org/monday-lick/ Marlinton trailhead and street plant https://destinationbydesign.com/proje... Walk Helmick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_He... Businesses visited Rivertown cafe https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?... Anne's HandMade WV Market https://www.facebook.com/handmadewvma... Greenbrier Bikes https://greenbrierbikes.com/ 0:00 Welcome to Marlinton 1:03 Clearing old properties 3:52 Greenbrier River Trail 6:30 Broadband Internet expansion 7:36 Oldest permanent English settlement west of Alleghenies 9:46 Repurposing big old buildings 10:30 Mon Forest Towns 12:10 Overcoming the coal downturn 12:50 Snowshoe Mountain Highland Ride Center goes for IMBA Gold 13:23 Monday Lick Trail system 14:41 Discovery Junction Park 16:01 Projected growth 17:05 Anne's Handmade Market 18:28 E-Bike Ride 18:50 Wastewater treatment and sewer upgrades 22:41 Gettin' out of the office 23:23 Freshwater plant 25:16 Flood of 1985 27:13 Pocahontas County facilities 30:12 Housing shortage 31:20 Joe and Peg Greenlee Rural Health Clinic 34:35 Mountain View Cemetery Charlestown charles town appalachian mountains rural town marlinton cass buckeye green bank observatory telescope radio astronomy Mountain state mountaineers holler crick creek river stream potomac maryland cumberland kentucky virginia Tennessee north Carolina Asheville timber Monongahela Pennsylvania pittsburgh forest Allegheny black bear national forest national park mountain biking bike ebike e-bike opera house wild wonderful west virginia university wvu harpers ferry martinsburg south southeast snow backpacking Appalachian trail climbing hunting fishing whitewater rafting county council town council mayor governor Patrick Morrisey Senator Manchin Shelley Moore Capito Jim Justice senate house of delegates capital capitol kanawha huntington ohio marlin sewell state climate change gas quarry mine miners shale Charleston Kanawha Huntington Cabell Vienna Wood Morgantown Monongalia St. Albans Parkersburg Wood Bluefield Mercer Wheeling bridgeport Harrison Weirton Hancock Moundsville Marshall Fairmont Marion Oak Hill Fayette Martinsburg Berkeley Dunbar Beckley Raleigh Elkins Randolph Clarksburg Harrison Hurricane Putnam rebel history moonshine population density old Canaan Valley seneca rocks new river gorge fayetteville john brown the greenbrier hotel resort national radio astronomy observatory national radio quiet zone Marcellus Shale Natural Gas Bed wind pv solar WVU Medicine walmart CAMC Health System hospital doctor dr Mountain Health Network Kroger Lowe's Contura Energy wheeling hospital mylan pharmaceuticals murray american energy rescare mon health macy's corporate services american electric power first energy corp dolgencorp frontier blackhawk mining darden restaurants arch coal walgreens dowdupont, Inc. Dupont DuPont de Nemours, Inc.