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2023 Rank City Type 2023 Estimate [1] 2020 Census Change County 1: Charleston †† City 46,838 48,864 −4.15%: Kanawha: 2: Huntington † City 45,325 46,842
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Mountain State University (MSU) was a private university in Beckley, West Virginia. It closed in 2013. It was formerly named Beckley College and then The College of West Virginia. [1] Its Beckley campus is now occupied by West Virginia University Institute of Technology. Its other campus in Martinsburg, West Virginia was sold to a private ...
West Virginia Junior College–Morgantown: Morgantown: Private for-profit Associate's college: 525 1922 [47] ACICS: West Virginia Northern Community College: Wheeling: Public Associate's college: 1,222 1972 [42] [49] ACEN, JRCERT, HLC: West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine: Lewisburg: Public Special-focus institution: 793 1972 [46] [50 ...
Davis is located at (39.131110, -79.466318). [9] It is located in the northern portion of Canaan Valley, West Virginia near the Canaan Valley State Resort Park, and is partially surrounded by the Monongahela National Forest, including scenic Blackwater Falls.
Davis was a self-made businessman who made his fortune mainly in the railroad business, and then embarked on a series of highly successful coal ventures with Elkins, his son-in-law. Both Elkins and Davis served as United States Senators , and were significant figures in both state and national politics in the post-Civil War years of the 19th ...
The Coketon Colored School was the center of a Civil Rights case in 1892. When the all-white Tucker County Board of Education instructed the Coketon Colored School’s teacher Carrie Williams to shorten the school year and teach three months less than the county’s white schools, Williams continued teaching for the full eight-month schedule and demanded full pay.
Lyscum Elbert Crowson (1903-1993), Methodist minister, leader of West Virginia's 1960s movement against bars and saloons. Willard Duncan Vandiver (1854-1932), Missouri congressman who popularized the "Show Me State" nickname, was born near Moorefield.