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The Fayette County Public Library houses microfilm records of census records from 1840 to 1930, newspapers from 1906-present, WV county death, marriage, and birth records, Fayette County yearbooks, local magazines, family collections, the West Virginia Collection, and other miscellaneous collections about West Virginia.
Grant County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 10,976. [1] Its county seat is Petersburg. [2] The county was created from Hardy County in 1866 and named for Civil War General and the 18th president of the United States Ulysses S. Grant.
The newly formed West Virginia Library Association (formed in 1914) campaigned for the legislation. Between 1917 and 1930, fourteen public libraries existed in the state. [1] The West Virginia Library Commission was created in 1929 by the legislature and housed in Morgantown on the campus of West Virginia University, but no state funding was ...
The Carnegie Public Library served Huntington, West Virginia from 1902, until the opening of the Cabell County Public Library in 1982. [3]The Cabell County Public Library was the first public library "to be automated with a computerized circulation system and online catalog" in West Virginia.
Patterson Creek is a 51.2-mile-long (82.4 km) [1] tributary of the North Branch Potomac River in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle, in the United States. [2] It enters the North Branch east of Cumberland, Maryland, with its headwaters located in Grant County, West Virginia. Patterson Creek is the watershed for two-thirds of Mineral County, West ...
Jonathan M. Bennett House, also known as Louis Bennett Public Library, is a historic home located at Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia.Its name reflects its builder, Jonathan M. Bennett, who represented Lewis County in the Virginia General Assembly and served as state auditor before the American Civil War.
Gormania is an unincorporated community along the North Branch Potomac River in Grant County, West Virginia. Gormania lies on the Northwestern Turnpike ( US 50 ), which crosses the North Branch into Gorman , Maryland via Gormania Bridge.
The Craft Memorial Library was opened in 1974 with funding from John Elliot Craft and Hellen T. Craft who were married business partners in West Virginia running a regional transportation business. The Mercer County Bookmobile started that same year, and the current bookmobile can hold a maximum of 3,500 books. [2]