Cheat Lake

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Cheat Lake is a 13-mile-long (21 km) reservoir on the Cheat River in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States. It was originally named Lake Lynn, but the Board on Geographic Names officially decided upon Cheat Lake as the reservoir's name in 1976. Cheat Lake is located immediately downstream of the 10-mile-long (16 km) Cheat Canyon. Cheat Lake has 3 marinas located towards the river end of the reservoir. They are Edgewater Marina, Cheat Lake Marina, and Sunset Beach Marina. Cheat Lake Dam is located directly south of the Mason–Dixon line border with Pennsylvania. The dam is run by eleven employees and has a generating capacity of 52 megawatts (70,000 hp). Cheat Lake Dam's total length across the Cheat River is approximately 1,000 feet (300 m). The first water flowed over the dam on December 23, 1925 and it began its operation on May 31, 1926.

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Cheat Lake
Cheat Lake Trail, Springhill Township

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Cheat Lake Trail

Cheat Lake Trail
15451 Springhill Township
West Virginia, United States
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Lake Lynn, Pennsylvania

Lake Lynn is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. Lake Lynn is located on the Cheat River, 2 miles (3.2 km) east-southeast of Point Marion. Lake Lynn had a post office with ZIP code 15451.

Greystone, West Virginia

Greystone is an unincorporated community in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States.

Sunset Beach, West Virginia

Sunset Beach is an unincorporated community in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States. Sunset Beach is located upon the Cheat Lake.

Gans, Pennsylvania

Gans is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. Gans is 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Point Marion. Gans has a post office, with ZIP code 15439, located on Gans Road inside Burchinal's General Store.

Cheat Neck, West Virginia

Cheat Neck is an unincorporated community in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States.

Point Marion, Pennsylvania

Point Marion is a borough in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,152 at the 2020 census, a decline from the figure of 1,159 tabulated in 2010. It is served by the Albert Gallatin Area School District.

Chestnut Ridge Church

Chestnut Ridge Church is a nondenominational, evangelical megachurch in Morgantown, West Virginia. The church spawned two sister churches: South Ridge Church, in Fairmont, West Virginia and River Ridge in Charleston, West Virginia.

Stewartstown, West Virginia

Stewartstown is an unincorporated community in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States. William Stewart and his wife Elizabeth Givens Stewart originally settled Stewardstown in 1771. It lies in the region of Monongalia County known as The Forks of Cheat, so named because that is the area where the Cheat empties (forks) into the Monongahela River. It is nestled close to the Cheat River, off US-119 on a bend in the river. There in 1775, Rev John Corbly organized the Forks-of-the-Cheat Baptist Church, the oldest continuously operating church in West Virginia.

McMellin, West Virginia

McMellin was an unincorporated community in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States.

Cheat Canyon

Cheat Canyon — also called Cheat River Canyon or Cheat River Gorge — is a 10-mile (16 km) long, forested Canyon of the Cheat River at the western edge of the Allegheny Mountains in northeastern West Virginia, United States. A popular whitewater venue, for many years the Canyon has been the object of controversy as environmental activists have contended with timber and development interests over its preservation status.

Albert Gallatin Memorial Bridge

The Albert Gallatin Memorial Bridge (also known as the Point Marion Bridge) was a cantilever truss bridge that carried vehicular traffic across the Monongahela River in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Built in 1930 to replace a ferry, it connected Point Marion in Fayette County and Dunkard Township in Greene County. It was named in honor of U.S. Senator, and longtime U.S. Treasury Secretary and diplomat Albert Gallatin, whose Friendship Hill homestead is nearby.

Cheat River

The Cheat River is a 78.3-mile-long (126.0 km) tributary of the Monongahela River in eastern West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania in the United States. Via the Ohio River, the Cheat and Monongahela are part of the Mississippi River watershed. Owing to the ruggedness of the surrounding Allegheny Mountains, the Cheat remains largely remote with few settlements or developments along its banks. Its headwaters are in the Cheat-Potomac Ranger District of the Monongahela National Forest.