THE COLLECTION
Throughout Cannon House Retreat, visitors find authentic Civil War artifacts, antique furnishings, historical photographs, books, and maps. The collection presents the stories of both Union and Confederate soldiers — educational, respectful, and focused on the sacrifices that shaped our nation.
HISTORY YOU CAN HOLD
The artifacts at Cannon House Retreat are not behind glass. They are on shelves, on tables, on walls — available to be examined, held, and considered. Personal effects from soldiers on both sides, each carrying a story.
This is not a museum with velvet ropes. It is a home that invites you to sit with history — to unfold a period map across the reading table, to study the faces in the photographs, to understand the landscape outside the window as the terrain that shaped the conflict.
SETTLED IN HISTORY
1861— the year the conflict began. The artifacts in this collection span the full four years of the war, from Fort Sumter to Appomattox.
· april 1861 to april 1865Bothsides of the conflict are represented — Union and Confederate. The collection is educational, not partisan. The soldiers were Americans.
· union and confederate artifacts displayed togetherWest Virginiawas the theater. The New River Gorge and the surrounding ridgelines saw some of the war's most contested campaigns.
· new river gorge · fayetteville, wvEach piece carries a story. Each story carries a name. We present them not as trophies but as testimony — to the men and women who lived through the conflict, and to the landscape that bore witness.
STAY WITH HISTORY
The collection is not a museum exhibit — it is a home. Reserve Cannon House Retreat on VRBO and spend your stay surrounded by the history of the Civil War in West Virginia.