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West Union, incorporated July 20, 1881, is a town and the county seat of Doddridge County, West Virginia, United States. [5] The population was 669 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] The town is located along Middle Island Creek at the junction of U.S. Route 50 and West Virginia Route 18 ; the North Bend Rail Trail also passes through the town.
West Union Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at West Union, Doddridge County, West Virginia.It encompasses 27 contributing buildings that include the commercial and civic core of the town, and surrounding residential buildings.
West Union is an unincorporated community in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States. West Union is 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Marlinton . References
West Union Residential Historic District is a national historic district located at West Union, Doddridge County, West Virginia. It encompasses 85 contributing residential buildings, built between about 1858 and 1940.
A majority of the citizens of Union supported the Confederacy and opposed the creation of West Virginia which included Monroe County. Union was incorporated in 1868. [7] The town of Union retains much of its historic architecture, with many structures dating to the antebellum period when the local economy was thriving from the resort industry.
The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. [1] West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. [2]
The only state other than West Virginia to use magisterial districts as a minor civil division of its counties is Virginia, [1] which like West Virginia initially established a system of civil townships, in its Constitution of 1870. These were replaced by magisterial districts in 1874. [4]
The Doddridge County Courthouse in West Union, Doddridge County, West Virginia, USA, was designed in the Victorian Romanesque style by J. Charles Fulton, who also designed courthouses in Barbour County and Randolph County. Built in 1899 by contractor John B. Conn, the courthouse features stone carvings by James Grant.