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Chapmanville is a town in Logan County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 1,025 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] Chapmanville is named for Ned Chapman, an early settler who operated a store and post office. [ 5 ]
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]
Evansville is an unincorporated community in Preston County, West Virginia, United States. Evansville lies on the Northwestern Turnpike (U.S. Route 50) along Little Sandy Creek. Sources differ whether the community was named after Edward, Henry or Hugh Evans, all of whom were first settlers. [2]
Evans is an unincorporated community in western Jackson County, West Virginia, United States. It lies along West Virginia Route 87 west of the city of Ripley, the county seat of Jackson County. [1] Its elevation is 594 feet (181 m). [2] Although Evans is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 25241. [3]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Monroe 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 an online map.
The Kanawha valley was home to many southern sympathizers and secessionists and the Union wanted to take and hold the areas in Kanawha County around Charleston. [ 2 ] At the Battle of Scary Creek and Carnifex Ferry , Union forces had defeated the Confederates, and wanting to aid the operations of Jacob D. Cox , Colonel Abram Piatt decided to ...
High Gate (also known as the James Edwin Watson House or Ross Funeral Home) [1] is an historic residence located at 800 Fairmont Avenue in Fairmont, West Virginia.. The High Gate house and carriage house were built ca. 1910-1913 by Fairmont industrialist and financier, James E. Watson, son of the "father of the West Virginia coal industry," James O. Watson.
The Evans Memorial Chapel (often simply Evans Chapel) [3] is an historic chapel on the campus of the University of Denver in Colorado. It is the oldest continuously-used building for religious purposes in Denver. [1] [4] [note 1] Completed in 1878, the Evans Memorial Chapel was built with patronage by John Evans in honor of his daughter Josephine.