Labor Day Weekend Festival – Rowlesburg

On Saturday, the whole town each year invites all Mountain Sub railroaders and their families and friends, and all of the descendents of railroaders now gone, to an old fashioned reunion at the B&O Depot Museum, the Ambulance Service Function Hall and the Rowlesburg Park. Railroaders from Cumberland to Grafton come to enjoy the exhibits, chicken dinner in the Park and rides to the top of Cannon Hill. On Sunday, bicycle clubs and paddling clubs are invited to an outdoor mountain and river festival in Rowlesburg starting at 8:00 A.M. in the Park. The day starts off with a hearty breakfast of eggs, saugage gravy on biscuits and lots of coffee. Tours are laid out by the Country Roads Cyclist Club of Harrison County. The Big Labor Day Weekend Celebration is topped off each year on Monday with the famous Ox Roast, country music and fireworks. The roast beef is pit-cooked all night in the Park on a fire of local hardwoods. Secret seasonings are added from a recipe said to be handed down for 4