Steele said Matewan’s growing tourism industry stems from freshly voted in city leadership and a united community effort. West Virginia Public Broadcasting About 1,500 African American men from McDowell County enlisted in World War I.
“When I found out the United Mine Workers, in 1920, offered equal pay for blacks and whites and their members were not discriminating against their brothers because of culture or speech or any of that, that blew me away,” Steele said. Co-founder and museum board member Wilma Steele said the organization remains dedicated to correcting revisionist history. With ATV’s whizzing through the middle of downtown Matewan, an old coal mining bank building has been converted into the Mine Wars Museum. Politicians need to come into Matewan and see what we have to offer and try to get us some grant money to help restore a lot of these old buildings.” There's people buying up homes and putting them on AirBnB left and right. “Do some stuff with the roads to help people get here,” Cantrell said. She said the growing tourism industry here needs much more help from the state. Her Matewan Trailhead Bar and Grill is just a half mile from the Hatfield Hideout Cabin and RV Camp in McCarr, Kentucky that she also has an interest in. Jamie Cantrell knows about border battles. “They have to have somewhere to stay, they have to have something to eat, but they don't have to have an airboat ride,” Gibson said. He said he was getting close to economically recovering from the pandemic, when inflation hit. Gibson said the legislature needs to consider the challenges border counties face, with prices often lower just a bridge ride away in neighboring Kentucky. “Then, we have to work hard to accommodate them when they are here.” “We have to work extra hard to attract people to drive that extra 100 miles on curvy roads to get here,” Gibson said. But he said getting to the remote border town may call for a feud with the state legislature. Gibson said many come to his airboat tour for a respite from the choking dust of the region's popular ATV trails. West Virginia Public Broadcasting Hatfield Hideaway is among a growing number of new coalfield resorts.
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