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Upshur County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 23,816. [2] Its county seat is Buckhannon. [3] The county was formed in 1851 from Randolph, Barbour, and Lewis counties and named for Abel Parker Upshur, a distinguished statesman and jurist of Virginia. [4]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Upshur County, West Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map.
Downtown Buckhannon Historic District is a national historic district located at Buckhannon, Upshur County, West Virginia. It encompasses 57 contributing buildings and one contributing structure that include the civic and commercial core of Buckhannon.
Upshur County and Buckhannon have maintained a Republican majority since the days of the American Civil War. [citation needed] On May 23, 1861, the voters of Upshur County voted 7 to 3 against secession from the United States. [19] The majority of soldiers from Upshur served in the Union Army, while over 180 soldiers enlisted in the Confederate ...
Buckhannon Central Residential Historic District is a national historic district located at Buckhannon, Upshur County, West Virginia.The district encompasses 344 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, 11 contributing structures, and 2 contributing objects in Buckhannon.
French Creek is an unincorporated community in Upshur County, West Virginia, United States. [2] French Creek is 9½ miles south of the county seat, Buckhannon, on West Virginia Route 20. It is home to the West Virginia State Wildlife Center — formerly the "French Creek Game Farm" — a zoological park featuring native and introduced fauna.
The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. [1] West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. [2]
Tallmansville is an unincorporated community in Upshur County, West Virginia, United States. The ZIP code of Tallmansville is 26237; its ZCTA had a population of 418 at the 2000 census. [1] The community of Tallmansville received its name, honoring their first postmaster Benjamin Tallman, in 1869.