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Lewis County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,033. [1] Its county seat is Weston. [2] The county was formed in 1816 from Harrison County [3] and named for Col. Charles Lewis (1733–1774), a Virginian killed in the Battle of Point Pleasant.
Lewisburg is located approximately one mile north of the Greenbrier River. [15]According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.81 square miles (9.87 km 2), of which 3.80 square miles (9.84 km 2) is land and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km 2) is water. [16]
Lewisburg Historic District is a national historic district located at Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The district encompasses 112 contributing buildings and are representative of the development and evolution of Lewisburg, over a period of more than two centuries (1763-1977).
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]
The Printing Press and offices were relocated to Lewisburg WV around 1972. Published Monday through Friday, the newspaper covers local news and events in the Greenbrier Valley, West Virginia, spreading across Greenbrier and Monroe counties, and areas of Pocahontas County. Its partner paper, the West Virginian, is published on Wednesdays. [2]
The West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine (WVSOM) is a public medical school in Lewisburg, West Virginia. Founded in 1974, WVSOM is one of three medical schools in West Virginia and the sole institution that grants the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) degree.
West Virginia University Health System - Morgantown (Monongalia County) J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital located in Morgantown, West Virginia (2022) J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital - Morgantown (Monongalia County) Chestnut Ridge Center - Morgantown (Monongalia County) Jon Michael Moore Trauma Center - Morgantown (Monongalia County)
West Virginians have a life expectancy of four years less than the national average. However, two (out of 55) West Virginia counties have life expectancies exceeding the national average. A few West Virginia counties also exceed the U.S. national average for income, population growth rate, education, and have a lower rate of poverty.