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Summers County Landmarks
Big Bend Tunnel
Talcott
Summers County
West Virginia
24981
The tunnel is 6,500 feet long and was bored from 1870 to 1872. The legend of the race between John Henry and the steam powered drill began here. It is said that his ghost haunts the tunnel.