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Thurmond is a town in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States, on the New River. The population was five at the 2020 census. The population was five at the 2020 census. During the heyday of coal mining in the New River Gorge, Thurmond was a prosperous town with a number of businesses and facilities for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway .
The Herald-Dispatch is a non-daily newspaper that serves Huntington, West Virginia, and neighboring communities in southern Ohio and eastern Kentucky.It is currently owned by HD Media Co. LLC. [2] It currently publishes Tuesdays-Saturdays, with the Saturday edition dated "Weekend", with updates on its website on Sundays and Mondays.
While West Virginia was once crisscrossed with commercial and passenger railroad networks, the decline of the coal and timber industries, coupled with the rise of the automobile, led to a sharp drop in track mileage in the state. Many of the former railroad grades are used as trails for hiking and biking throughout the state's numerous woodlands.
St. Cloud Commons, a park including a softball field, a community center, and the first all-inclusive park in West Virginia [3] [4] West Huntington Bridge, a bridge connecting Huntington and Burlington, Ohio. It crosses the Ohio River and carries U.S. Route 52 between Ohio State Route 7 and Interstate 64. [5]
14th Street West Historic District, also known as Central City, [2] is a national historic district located at Huntington, West Virginia. The district encompasses 29 contributing buildings including Heiner's Bakery. Dwellings in the district represent the finest styles in Colonial Revival and Mid-Century Modern architecture. [3]
The Port of Huntington Tri-State, centered on the Ohio River in Huntington, West Virginia, is the second-largest inland port in the United States, and was formerly the largest. [ 3 ] [ 2 ] It is the largest river port in the state of West Virginia and the 15th-largest in the United States as of 2012.
The New River Subdivision is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It was formerly part of the CSX Huntington East Division. [1] It became part of the CSX Florence Division on June 20, 2016. The line runs from Hinton, West Virginia, to Montgomery, West Virginia, for a total of
Huntington is a city in Cabell and Wayne counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia. [9] The seat of Cabell County, the city is located at the confluence of the Ohio and Guyandotte rivers in the state's southwestern region.