The Appalachian Regional Commission is betting Boyd that sexier civil war is history, and that tourists want to Martinsburg, WV, to visit the home of the infamous "Siren of the South", their feminine charm spy on the Union soldiers used for the Confederacy.
Belle Boyd House in the Eastern Panhandle more destinations, which is highlighting the Commission on a new 13-State map published on Thursday, is a lesser known to the 150 civil war show the way to the footnote to history and many.
Is clocked at the same time aimed at with the 150th anniversary of the war, the guide help States cash in on the growing popularity of cultural heritage tourism and tourists of such rise battlefields of Gettysburg, PA, and Antietam to erhaltenMD.
"Our story here is that there a lot of jewels in the Appalachian mountains, and a lot of great stories about families and communities, we should stop and have a look at," said the co-Chair of the federal agency, Earl F. Gohl.
The leaders and appeared in Independence Hall in Wheeling, where some Virginians were so horrified by speeches of the secession as the war 1861 erupted, they held their own constitutional Convention and the breakaway State of West Virginia formed two years later.
Union delivered secrets to Stonewall Jackson Boyd, that even "beautiful" boasted form in a letter to a cousin of her 106 pounds, made their captain and honorary aide-de-camp.
She was arrested and jailed twice, then published in the typhus suffer. The Confederation sent them to England as a courier, but she was captured before she could complete the mission. Historians say they finally married Union naval officer and lived until 1866 in England.
Boyd published memoirs and worked as an actress, then lecturer. She died in the year 1900 on touting their adventure tour in Wisconsin.
Their story is one of many that are often overlooked, says Gohl. The new guide is hoping to draw the curtain back on their home and other locales.
These include Mississippi, Corinth, contraband camp where slaves escape southern plantations with federal troops sought refuge. Union General Grenville Dodge she took over as Teamsters, cooks, workers and finally, security managers. This led to the creation of the 1st Alabama infantry regiment of African descent.
Altoona, PA, where President Abraham Lincoln appointed governors of the States and deliberated on the Emancipation Proclamation Gohl says, then it is.
The Guide magazine is a free insert in the spring issue of American heritage, and copies were States distributed to tourism agencies in West Virginia, and 12 other Appalachia - Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Tennessee.
Edwin Grosvenor, editor-in-Chief of American heritage, said the show has more information and more stories than many magazines, and these stories help relevant to make the civil war for new generations. Many schools have finished the doctrine of the conflict, and in the last decades, he said visits even famous places like Gettysburg dropped some.
"People are really forget about the civil war," said Grosvenor. "The victims of people - women, children, older people - are they really extraordinary..." "It was so catastrophic and so many people, and it is important to remember that."
To fill library, even if there is a sufficient civil war history, Gohl said relatively little focuses on the life and lifestyle of civilians between 1861 and 1865. The Commission and the Member States, on farms and factories, railways and houses, even a large cave where soldiers out three years hidden, restored.
"It's a different story here - on how people lived as culture developed," said Gohl.
Kentucky's mountain life Museum in London features seven pioneer settlement buildings filled with relics from this agricultural period.
In the House in Cumberland, MD. Gordon Roberts, Priscilla McKaig visitors can learn the registration in the Confederate Army magazines about her son.
In Ripley, Ohio, tourists, ardent anti-slavery activist John find where a Rankin - Presbyterian Minister - protected 2,000 slaves escape to freedom via the underground railroad.
And in South Carolina, they can learn, such as James Clement Furman his students of Greenville College for women opened, when the men to the war came. You paid their tuition with Bacon, sugar and lard.
This is the third tourist card, which has created the ARC, with others focused on thematic driving tours.
Surveys performed after these projects, the value of the relatively low investments in the latest show propose one - develop $9,000 and print 12 cents per share. After the earlier projects Gohl said, reported a jump of 15 to 50 percent in visitation respondents destinations.
"This an approach works," he said.
The United States travel Association estimates a 704 billion US dollar industry is tourism, and cultural heritage sector is growing at twice the rate of the overall market. Appalachia is home to six of the 10 most visited countries in this sector.
Although West Virginia civil war offers are relatively known and within a day's drive from much of the East Coast, Tourism Commissioner Betty Carver, said that the most people for outdoor recreation visit. The outdoor adventurer itself but now are looking for historical sites and other attractions to complement the thrill of the rock climbing and rafting.
The new show, Carver, said, "raises the profile of West Virginia by our pages exactly there together with the other States." It supports also places that the States already, Belle as the 10-room house Boyd, already part of West Virginia Washington heritage trail marketing. Inside, the visitor cookie jars, teapots and tales for Belle Boyd intrigue.
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