I recently started a new thread on the Adventure Riders website involving researching, photographing and posting a brief report on all of the 700+ Historical Markers in West Virginia.  The idea came to me during a game of photo tag, when I starting actually reading some of those white signs we drive by and mostly ignore.  There's a lot of history out there, and these signs give us a good starting point for learning more about the world around us.  Click the link below to go directly to the report.

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=407164

To read more about the WV Historical Markers program, click here.  Order the book!

http://www.wvculture.org/history/markers.html

From the WV History and Archives Site: 

It was implemented in 1937, during the Great Depression, to encourage tourism. The West Virginia Commission on Historic and Scenic Markers worked with the State Road Commission, Works Progress Administration, and Federal Emergency Relief Administration to place 440 markers during the first year alone. After World War II, markers were placed at the sites of most state-run facilities and schools. The West Virginia Historic Commission took over the program in 1963. Since the late 1960s, the program has been managed by the West Virginia State Archives, which is today part of the West Virginia Division of Culture & History.