Ravenswood Inn Bed & Breakfast

04/20/2026

Big thank you to Jeff Weiss of for getting the gardens at the Inn ready for the enjoyment of us, our guests, and folks driving by. He's amazing and does such a good job☘️🌺🌻🌼🌿

03/22/2026

We're having a warm and sunny day today. The spring flowers are waking to greet the sun 🌞 💐

12/25/2025

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care...In hopes that Saint Nicholas soon would be there...

By Clement C. Moore

Happy Holidays to all...and to all a good night 🎅🤶🎄

11/29/2025

Come have some cocoa with us during the Ravenswood Cocoa Crawl today ☕️ Downtown Ravenswood Partners has a full day of fun to start the Holiday Season 🎄

🎄🍫 Downtown Ravenswood Cocoa Crawl – Saturday, Nov. 29 (4–6 PM)! 🍫🎄

Get ready for a delicious way to experience downtown during River Lights Night — our first-ever Cocoa Crawl! Stroll, sip, shop small, and enjoy festive treats at each Cocoa Crawl Stop.

Every participating business will feature a specialty cocoa flavor, and you can pick up your Cocoa Crawl Map & Stamp Card at the DRP Welcome Booth on Washington Street starting at 4:00 PM.

✨ Visit ALL the Cocoa Stops and turn in your completed stamp card by 6 PM for a chance to win one of FOUR $25 Raven’s Gold Tokens!

🍫 Cocoa Crawl Stops & Flavors

Here’s where you’ll be sipping:

Miner’s Refinery – Classic Cocoa

Wright Co. – Classic Cocoa

Ravenswood Floral – French Vanilla Cappuccino with Whipped Cream + Peppermint Sprinkles

Ravenswood Inn – Salted Caramel Cocoa

Inaka’s Hibachi – Thai Tea Cocoa & Mango Sticky Rice

Steaming Cup – Peppermint Chocolate

Ravenswood Arts – Orange Chocolate

Mountain Momma – Ghirardelli Cocoa

Santee Sweets – S’mores Cocoa

JCD Bargains & Trading Co. – White Mocha

CNC Syndicate – Gingerbread Cocoa

🗺 Cocoa Crawl Map & Stamp Card

Each cocoa stop will have a stamp you can collect on your Visit All Stops card.
✔️ Turn your finished card in at the Welcome Booth before 6 PM
✔️ Prize drawing takes place during the Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony

🚐 Golf Cart Shuttle Route

Parking in the plaza? No problem!
Our volunteer golf cart drivers will run a continuous loop from the plaza parking area to all Cocoa Crawl stops throughout the evening — making it easy for everyone to join in the fun.

Come celebrate River Lights Night with us — shop small, sip cocoa, and enjoy a magical evening downtown!

11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving to all 🦃

11/14/2025

A day late for World Kindness Day, but never too late to be kind ❤️❤️❤️
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11/06/2025

We have been reading, enjoying, and sharing WV Living Magazine with our guests for years, so we were thrilled to be included in this story about Ravenswood! Hosting the journalist and her friends was a joy, and showing our guests how special Ravenswood is, and seeing it through their eyes, reminds us of the treasure we have in this town ❤️.

10/31/2025

Happy Halloween 🎃

09/19/2025

On the eve of the 2025 Mothman Festival in Pt. Pleasant, WV, is a good time to learn more about the mysterious creature known as Mothman (suspenseful music playing 🎶.)

We will be full of festival go-ers this weekend, and frequent fans of the Mothman lore throughout the year. Some other folks have not heard of the cryptid so I do my best, not great, to describe the Mothman story.

Read on for a better description...if you dare..

Mysterious events around this elusive cryptid surround one terrifying night that led to a modern-day phenomenon, this is the story of Mothman in West Virginia.

09/10/2025

My dad, Eldon Shingleton, always said we were alike, which was a big compliment. He said we do everything the hard way. We count cows by their legs, then divide by four. I think he was right, and here's an example.

I have always thought dahlias were beautiful but was daunted by how complicated they were to grow. My mother talked about how her father, Harvey Eugene Richardson, used to grow dahlias, which won prizes at the county fair. Of course, the story involved digging them up in the fall and replanting in the spring. That sounded like a bit much for me until I saw a post from Sweet Violet Farm that Violet was selling dahlia tubers to support the backpack program to provide weekend food for students. Perfect time for me to try growing tubers!

My mother and I made the trek to the other side of the county, and we picked up two globs of tubers from Violet's farm. I followed Violet's instructions, along with recommendations I read on Pinterest. It involved brushing extra dirt off, storing them in a cool place over the winter (I found out that the cellar at the Inn is actually a cistern, so not as cool as a cellar would be,) splitting them carefully so each one had an eye,, planting them into pots in the Spring in my mother's basement to give them a head start (until the cat decided to eat the shoots, which required a quick move of the pots while my mother fended off the cats,) a move to my daughter's greenhouse for a few weeks, then finally testing the soil where they were to be planted, finding the soil to not be the correct acidity, buying stuff to correct the acidity, planting, watering, fertilizing, staking,and finally beautiful dahlia blooms!

A lot of work, but beautiful flowers. So, I knew I needed to repeat the whole process in the fall. Come fall, we all got sick, and I had surgery. Therefore, the tubers were left in the ground all winter. I knew that I would have no dahlias because I hadn't followed the 13-step process of the year before.

For those of you who have stuck with me this far, it must seem like a sad ending. But, alas, the dahlias grew again this year, and we had even more than last year. The moral of the story is "You don't have to count cows by their legs and divide by four. Just count one cow, and maybe you'll be right."

09/09/2025

When you have a house that is 125 years old, there is always something needing attention. We're so grateful to be the caretakers of this piece of history 🏡