Thank you for following along and for your kind words. I am very proud to be from Appalachia and excited about the future we are building.

I will make sure to tell John, though it wouldn't be the first skeleton they ran across!

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Thank you! We think so as well!

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Laura, please don't encourage him. We can't get him to be serious. 😂 ~Tabitha

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@@AppalachianRisingVentures I should give John a thumbs up as well for being smart enough to marry you. 😁

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The town of Appalachia, VA.

After the family that first owned and operated it.

You are so right! And it is evident Tommy is proud of our hometown!

www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/5SBW6QUBQT3AE Thanks for asking! 😂😂😂 He's a hard working start up entrepreneur, so I am sure he would appreciate donations toward equipment, especially with the prices of anything camera related.

Yes, Appalachia is a railroad town that was surrounded by many coal camps. The underground mining goes every which direction. When I was a kid, less than a mile from downtown methane gas escaped from prior mines and filled an empty building and then exploded on Christmas Eve morning. We had just woke up for church, and I remember feeling our house shake. Amazingly, no one died.

@@AppalachianRisingVentures You might want to have that ground water checked to see if any of it is coming from or redirected by previous old mining works. If it is, you can have the Abandoned Mine lands program see is it qualifies for abatement funds.

@@JPW-qm6xewe are! They already tested it for chlorine, so we know it isn’t coming from broken public water sources. They are coming out to test it for minerals etc in a week or so. I lied on the mountain above these buildings, and I know above my house there was also a prior strip mine in addition to the underground mines, so it’s a possibility!

@@AppalachianRisingVentures Good deal. I worked for the AML program here in Ky for 15 years.

@@AppalachianRisingVentures Wow. Scary.

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I'm not from Appalachia but next door in Lee Co and have had family that live up in Wise, VA as well as going up there so much thru my childhood in the 80s and Appalachia is one of the few places that kept their train depot and didn't tear it down like Pennington Gap and seemingly everywhere else did. That being said the Depot has sat basically untouched since I was a kid in the 80s and it would be nice to finally see it restored and perhaps turned into a visitors center, or a small event gathering place because the depots these towns had were unique and of such architecture that we will never see again. I'm just grateful even being the next county over after having traveled thru there before the 4 lane from Big Stone to Norton/Wise took traffic away from the town that people are finally stepping up to buy and fix these buildings instead of tearing them down. I can't stand this modern building of everything is cheap and quick to stick up all metal buildings, it makes all the stores and businesses look alike and it creates no living space above them like the truly unique old store buildings with apartments on top. I'll have to look up those maps you talked about, and I wonder if there's any for my hometown of Pennington Gap as I heard so many stories from my now 80 yr old mom and grandma of what the towns used to be like and it's hard to imagine. In the 80s these places I do know still had life and businesses/living going on in them but it seems like around the 90s things started going downhill fast and a lot was lost or left to ruin.

We just started taking possession of buildings in February of this year. So right now it is mostly demo and clean up work. This current building is in better shape though, so we have tenants moving into the upstairs apartment very soon, and we hope to have the commercial space ready in a few months as well. And maybe one other building occupied by a commercial tenant by the first of the year. However, many of these restoration will take us several years to complete. They are extensive, and in some cases, just in the nick of time before they became unsalvageable.

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Interesting!

I bet after all the hard work those mirrors and windows were spotless and not a streak anywhere on them. Never have I heard of glass wax, so you learn something new every day. I wonder if the stuff would hold up on vehicle windows better than the streaking mess the cleaners we have today leaves behind.

@@appalachianwoman561 It was also used to make Christmas decorations on windows. Google "glass wax stencils"

There is a park actually just to the left of our Dairy Building across the road, and some green spaces downtown already where older holdings were previously demolished. There is also a good sized municipal parking lot directly in the middle of town to the left of the Peake Building. However, we do plan to one day work on the back cliff side of these buildings on this side of Main to create outdoor spaces and possibly more parking. Currently, anybody living here can park on the street, but we hope someday that Main Street is busy enough that parking is a problem again. 🤞

We hope someday you’ll come visit and love Appalachia VA!

Yes, too much of our Main Street is already gone because they sat until they were unsalvageable. We pray for direction every day on how to manage these projects so we can hopefully save a piece of our history.

We plan to one day work on the back cliff side of these buildings on this side of main to create outdoor spaces and possibly more parking. Currently, anybody living here can park on the street, but we hope someday that Main Street is busy enough that parking is a problem again. 🤞

They will slowly come along! We will have an update very soon on the upstairs apartment of the Beauty Shop that we just posted a tour of last night!

We have used a better light in the last two videos we have done, one of which was posted last night. Check it out and let us know what you think. We are learning as we go how to make everything more viewable.