![]() The plant began operation in 2018, representing a $2 billion investment in Berkeley County. With the Eastern Panhandle being the fastest growing region of the state, there are lessons and challenges to be gleaned for other regions of West Virginia.Ĭlass members toured the Proctor and Gamble Tabler Station Plant in Inwood Thursday afternoon. Thursday, class members traveled to Eastern West Virginia Regional Airport and learned about how the airport has become a key hub in the region’s economic success, as well as the role of the West Virginia National Guard in the region and state’s economy. ![]() The week’s session was also focused on statewide economic development, energy, and manufacturing.Ĭlass members took part Wednesday in a tour of Harpers Ferry National Historic Park, including the Bolivar Heights Civil War battlefield Camp Hill, the home of the Storer College historically black college and university and site of the Niagara Movement, a precursor to the formation of the NAACP and black civil rights and lower town, home of John Brown’s fort and the raid that lit the spark that led to the Civil War. ![]() Members of the Leadership West Virginia class of 2023 spent Wednesday through Friday in Berkeley and Jefferson counties learning about the Eastern Panhandle’s history and economy.
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