Culture & Heritage

Preserving Our History

Wyco Church
  • F. BRIAN FERGUSON/THE REGISTER-HERALD=Volunteers Brantley Kirkland, left, and Robert McDaniel, right, do some repair work on the lights at the New Salem Baptist Church in Tames on Monday during the Martin Luther King Day of Volunteering in the Southern Coalfields.
RAIL assumed control of the Wyco Church in 2004. Since that time, we have made incremental repairs to the structure with the help of community residents, college students and researchers
Jack Feller Memorial Museum
The Jack Feller Memorial Museum is a tribute to Jack Feller, the late Mullens historian. He was also a founder of RAIL
Beartown School

RAIL staff has worked closely with the Beartown Community Association to repair and preserve one of the few remaining two-room schoolhouses in Central Appalachia. Learn more