By Tabitha Johnston, The Shepherdstown Chronicle
SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. — The Rotary Club of Shepherdstown has undertaken a new project, which will give Shepherdstown just one more attraction to draw in tourism.
This year, the Rotary Club of Shepherdstown will be working together with the Corporation of Shepherdstown to place a swing on the edge of James Rumsey Monument Park that faces the Potomac River. This swing will become the second one in the Eastern Panhandle, with the other West Virginia’s Almost Heaven Swing being in Morgan County, at Cacapon Resort State Park. It will become the 32nd swing in the state.
“Back in 2022, not long ago, the West Virginia Department of Tourism partnered with the Nicholson Vocational & Career School about building something iconic to brand West Virginia and spur on tourism. That’s where the West Virginia Almost Heaven Swings were born from,” said Rotary Club of Shepherdstown member Rick Caruso. “The school manufactured nine pilot project swings.”
Each of those swings was installed in the state’s nine travel regions.
“The closest one is in Berkeley Springs, so it’s ripe for development in our area,” Caruso said.
