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Elkins is a city in and the county seat of Randolph County, West Virginia, United States, along the Tygart Valley River. The community was incorporated in 1890 and named in honor of Stephen Benton Elkins, a U.S. Senator from West Virginia. [6] The population was 6,950 at the 2020 census and estimated at 6,895 in 2021. [4]
Sportspeople from Elkins, West Virginia (9 P) Pages in category "People from Elkins, West Virginia" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
Buildings and structures in Elkins, West Virginia (17 P) C. Culture of Elkins, West Virginia (1 C, 1 P) D. Davis & Elkins College (2 C, 6 P, 1 F)
Randolph County is a county located in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 27,932. [5] Its county seat is Elkins. [6] The county was founded in 1787 and is named for Edmund Jennings Randolph. [7] Randolph County comprises the Elkins, West Virginia, Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Cyrus Kump was a member of the West Virginia University Board of Governors in the early 1960s and was an alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from West Virginia in 1952. [2] Governor Kump's law partner, Jack R. Nuzum, was the husband of Eldora Marie Bolyard Nuzum , the first female editor of a daily newspaper in West Virginia ...
Stonewall Jackson, C.S. Army general born in Clarksburg and died before the region was formed into West Virginia; Albert G. Jenkins, general and politician; Jonah Edward Kelley, U.S. Army soldier; Medal of Honor recipient; Edwin Gray Lee, C.S. Army general born in Shepherdstown before it became part of the newly formed West Virginia
NRHP registration form: First Ward School; David Armstrong, South Elkins Was Its Own Town At Turn of Century An Act to amend and re-enact the charter of the City of Elkins, in Randolph county, to consolidate the City of Elkins and the Town of South Elkins, to repeal the Charter of the town of South Elkins, in the County of Randolph and to add additional territory to the City of Elkins (151). 1901.
Wees Historic District is a national historic district located at Elkins, Randolph County, West Virginia. It encompasses 282 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 1 contributing object in a primarily residential section of Elkins. The district includes houses representative of popular architectural styles between about 1890 and 1955.