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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]
The City of Buckhannon was established on January 15, 1816, possible named for Buckongahelas [8] (1720-1805), the legendary Lenape Chief. A statue of Buckongahelas and his fallen son, crafted by Buckhannon sculptor Ross Straight, was erected in Buckhannon West Virginia’s Jawbone Park in 2000. [9]
River Park Hospital - Huntington (Cabell and Wayne counties) Roane General Hospital - Spencer (Roane County) St. Francis Hospital - Charleston (Kanawha County) St. Joseph's Hospital - Buckhannon (Upshur County) St. Joseph's Hospital (closed) - Parkersburg (Wood County) St. Mary's Medical Center from Rotary Park view in 2024.
The eastern terminus is at U.S. Route 33 near Norton, West Virginia. CR 151 is the former alignment of US 33 which was bypassed by the completion of Corridor H of the Appalachian Development Highway System between Buckhannon and Elkins in 1994, [2] and was designated as part of the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike National Scenic Byway in 2005. [3]
River Park Hospital (RPH) is a inpatient psychiatric facility in Huntington, West Virginia, US.With 187 beds, RPH provides inpatient and psychiatric residential mental health treatment to children, adolescents, adults, and seniors.
This is a list of West Virginia covered bridges. There are 17 historic wooden covered bridges in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Only three of these bridges were built before 1870 and they are the three longest in the state. Each uses a standard truss design, braced with the Burr Arch. No one-truss design dominates in the state.
Upshur County Regional Airport (FAA LID: W22) is a regional, public-use airport approximately 2 nautical miles outside the town of Buckhannon, Upshur County, in the United States. It lies directly along U.S. Route 48 , and is also in close proximity to Interstate 79 , which runs through neighboring Lewis County .
The Record Delta is the merger of the Buckhannon Record and the Republican Delta. The Buckhannon Record was founded in 1876. [4] In the 1910s it had the distinction of being an early West Virginia newspaper to be helmed by a female editor, Minnie Kendall Lowther. [5]