Developers see tourism in coalfields

Tuesday, December 17, 2002

BECKLEY, W.Va. -- A two-lane road in West Virginia coal country plunges through some of the state's richest history, from old railroad towns to a courthouse where a pair of killings led to the largest U.S. insurrection since the Civil War.

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