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The Beckley-Raleigh County Convention Center (originally the Raleigh County Armory) is a 2,856-seat indoor arena and convention center located in Beckley, West Virginia. It is used for basketball and is home to the West Virginia University Institute of Technology [1] and Woodrow Wilson High School [2] basketball teams. It was built in 1961.
200 Stadium Drive Beckley, West Virginia 25801 United States: Capacity: 2,500: Scoreboard: Electronic: Opened: 2010: Tenants; West Virginia Miners (2010–2022) Marshall Thundering Herd (2010–2018) (select games) West Virginia Mountaineers (2012–2013) (select games) WVU Tech Golden Bears (2017–present)
South end of WV 3 overlap 46.8: 75.3: WV 307 west (Grandview Road) Eastern terminus of WV 307: Daniels–Beaver line: 49.2: 79.2: WV 307 east (Airport Road) to I-64: Western terminus of WV 307: Beckley: 51.1: 82.2: WV 3 west (Fayette Street) North end of WV 3 overlap: 51.3: 82.6: WV 210 north (Kanawha Street) – Downtown: Southern terminus of ...
Beckley is a city in and the county seat of Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 17,286 at the 2020 census, ...
Alfred Beckley (1802–88) said that he named the county for Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618), the "enterprising and far-seeing patron of the earliest attempts to colonize our old Mother State of Virginia". [7] Raleigh was one of fifty Virginia Counties that were admitted to the Union as the state of West Virginia on June 20, 1863.
General Alfred Beckley (1802–88) wanted his home to be the center of what he envisioned for Beckley, West Virginia which he founded in 1838. Although his town was a piece of paper in 1838, it would later become the county seat of Raleigh County, West Virginia, which was also founded by Beckley in 1850. [2]
Fayette County—originally Fayette County, Virginia—was created by the Virginia General Assembly in February 1831, [4] from parts of Greenbrier, Kanawha, Nicholas, and Logan counties.
A number of annual events and fairs throughout the year at the complex. Among the events includes the Annual West Virginia Hunting and Fishing Show, West Virginia Association of Fairs & Festivals Conference, West Virginia International Auto Show, West Virginia Sports Show, the Taste of Charleston, and the Capital City Art & Craft Show.