Official Bridge Day Merchandise

2011 Official Bridge Day Poster

Official 2011 Bridge Day poster by Ginger Danz

• $10.00 (Tax Included)

Bridge Day 876' Pin

The square collector's pin is great for your own personal pin stash or trading. Depicts the famous 876' theme.

• $5.00 (Tax Included)

Bridge Day Poster 2010

Official Bridge Day Poster for 2010

• $10.00 (Tax Included)

Commemorative Christmas Ornament

Great way to remember your time with friends and family on Bridge Day. Full-size glass bulb. 2009 version.

• $12.00 (Tax Included)

Fayette County History Book

J. Scott Legg & the Fayette County Chamber of Commerce

The history of the New River Gorge area is rich. Learn more about the many coal camps which dotted the New River Gorge. Filled with many rare photos.

Today visitors to the New River Gorge see a steep gorge filled with a lush hardwood forest. Before the railroad, the New River, with its whitewater rapids, was a barrier to trade, but with the 1873 completion of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, the gorge came alive. By the 1890s, more than 30,000 people lived and worked in the gorge. Towns like Kaymoor, Nuttallburg, and Thurmond were hives of activity and melting pots of American immigrants who dug the coal that helped build the American dream. Times changed. By 1960, the easiest coal was gone, and miners moved to Midwest factories. Nature began to reclaim the gorge. The 1970s brought a rebirth. Whitewater rafters took on the rapids, and bridge builders built the New River Gorge Bridge. The forest has returned, and if you look under the canopy, you will see that the railroads, coal camps, and mine tipples have given way to rafters, rock climbers, and mountain bikers.

• $22.00 (Tax Included)

Round Bridge Day Collector Pin

Great for collecting, trading, cowboy hats or jean jackets. (you still wear jean jackets...right?)

• $5.00 (Tax Included)

Shot Glass

Pick your poison...no matter what it is, everytime you bend an elbow you can remember fun times on the Bridge. Images screened on both sides. Photos depict front and back.

• $5.50 (Tax Included)

Square Refrigerator Magnet

Square refrigerator magnet great for hanging photos, school papers and whatever else you might like to hang on your 'fridge.

• $2.00 (Tax Included)

Water Filled Thingamabob

We really don't know what to call this, but it's cool, unique and will make a great gift.

Depicting the New River Gorge Bridge and a floating whitewater raft. A paper weight? A magnet? No matter what you decide it is, or what to call it, it would make a great stocking stuffer.

• $6.00 (Tax Included)