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Oak Hill is a city in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 8,179 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Beckley metropolitan area. Country singer Hank Williams died in Oak Hill on his way to a concert on January 1, 1953. The city is also home to the historic Oak Hill Railroad Depot which still stands today as an ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Fayette 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.
In 1871, an Act of the West Virginia Legislature severed a small portion to form part of Summers County. [6] In 1863, West Virginia's counties were divided into civil townships, with the intention of encouraging local government. Fayette County was originally divided into four townships: Falls, Fayetteville, Mountain Cove, and Sewell Mountain.
Oak Hill began an annual festival known as Depot Day in 1997 to raise money to restore the depot. [3] The depot presently serves as a meeting place for the White Oak chapter of the National Railway Historical Society but is otherwise vacant; it is the sole surviving Virginian Railway depot in West Virginia. [2] [3] In 2013, the station caught ...
WOAY-TV (channel 4) is a television station licensed to Oak Hill, West Virginia, United States, serving the Bluefield–Beckley–Oak Hill market as an affiliate of ABC.It has been locally owned by the Thomas family since its inception, and its studios and transmitter are co-located on Legends Highway in Scarbro, just outside the Oak Hill city limits (though with an Oak Hill mailing address).
Oak Hill, West Virginia, U.S. Marian McQuade (January 18, 1917 – September 26, 2008) [ 1 ] was an American elder rights activist from West Virginia, best known as the founder of Grandparents' Day in the United States.
The Fayette Tribune is a newspaper serving Oak Hill, West Virginia, and surrounding Fayette County. [2] Published on Thursday, it has a circulation of 1,093 and is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings. [3]
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