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By 1953 Hall County and Lumpkin County decided to make a joint library consortium to pool their collections together and began the Chestatee Regional Library System. [7] Now, with heightened need for a dedicated library building, the town voted on a budget in 1956 to build a new library but it was vetoed by the county judge.
Literary Hall is a mid-19th-century brick library, building and museum located in Romney, a city in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is located at the intersection of North High Street (West Virginia Route 28) and West Main Street (U.S. Route 50). Literary Hall was constructed between 1869 and 1870 by the Romney Literary Society.
Orgas is an unincorporated community in Boone County, West Virginia, United States. Orgas is located on the Coal River and West Virginia Route 3, 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north-northwest of Sylvester. Orgas has a post office with ZIP code 25148. [2] Orgas was named after the Orange Gas Coal Company which was established in 1919. [3]
Halltown is an unincorporated community situated along Flowing Springs Run in Jefferson County, West Virginia. Halltown is located off U.S. Route 340 on West Virginia Route 230 between Charles Town and Bolivar. The Halltown Paperboard Mill has operated in the community since 1869. [2]
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.
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In 1777, the Virginia General Assembly chartered the town of Moorefield in what was then Hampshire County, Virginia (today Hardy County, West Virginia). [8] When Hardy County was separated from Hampshire County by act of the Virginia General Assembly in 1785, after the American Revolution, Moorefield was chosen as the county seat. [9]
Burlington is situated along the old Northwestern Turnpike in southeastern Mineral County, West Virginia. German and English settlers began to populate the area of Burlington in the second quarter of the 18th century following the surveying of Patterson Creek Manor by Thomas, Lord Fairfax in 1738. The Homestead, built c. 1831