West Virginia
SOS! volunteers documented and photographed 130 outdoor sculptures in the state. 83 in all were deemed in need of some treatment with 31 needing urgent treatment. The Mountain State has the highest mean altitude of any state east of the Mississippi. Until the Civil War started in 1861, there was only one Virginia. After the Virginia legislature, which was dominated by slave owners in the Eastern part of the state, voted to secede from the United States, citizens of the western counties who supported President Lincoln began forming a new state. West Virginia was welcomed into the Union on June 20, 1863.
Click on the pictures below to check out two examples of West Virginia's outdoor sculpture!
