Virginia colonists saw the Native Americans growing tobacco and, from 1613, the colonists quickly adopted tobacco as their primary mechanism of getting wealthy. There started a ‘gold-rush type boom that lasted through the 1620s.
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The main Gauley River rafting season consists of five 4-day weekends and one 2-day weekend from mid-September through mid-October.
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Virginia’s economy since early times has been based on agriculture. The earliest Virginians – Englishmen, Germans and Irish amongst others – soon found out what flourished best on their newly adopted land – with tobacco, pigs and peanuts all becoming nationally renowned for being made in Virginia.
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West Virginians may have always been simple folk living off the land but the turmoil of the Civil War years gave rise to an ever-growing number of violent and dangerous criminals that needed housing.
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