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In 1954, Upshur County's school system was integrated. The few Upshur County Black students were integrated into the city branch of Buckhannon-Upshur High School without incident. In 1958, extensive renovations took place at the Upshur, or county, branch of B-UHS, and all high school students began meeting in one facility in grades 10-12.
Upshur County Schools is a school district in Upshur County, West Virginia, United States. The Superintendent is Christine Miller, Assistant Superintendent is Russ Collett, the Board President is Jan Craig, the Board Vice-President is Sherry Dean and the treasurer is Sarah Wills.
The City of Buckhannon was established on January 15, 1816, possible named for Buckongahelas [8] (1720-1805), the legendary Lenape Chief. A statue of Buckongahelas and his fallen son, crafted by Buckhannon sculptor Ross Straight, was erected in Buckhannon West Virginia’s Jawbone Park in 2000. [9]
The Record Delta is the merger of the Buckhannon Record and the Republican Delta. The Buckhannon Record was founded in 1876. [4] In the 1910s it had the distinction of being an early West Virginia newspaper to be helmed by a female editor, Minnie Kendall Lowther. [5]
The Southern Methodist Church Building, now known and used as the Upshur County Historical Society's History Center Museum, is an historic former church building located at 81 W. Main Street in Buckhannon, Upshur County, West Virginia. It was built in 1856 with final modifications in the 1890s, and is a simple rectangular frame building.
Upshur County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 23,816. [2] Its county seat is Buckhannon. [3] The county was formed in 1851 from Randolph, Barbour, and Lewis counties and named for Abel Parker Upshur, a distinguished statesman and jurist of Virginia. [4]
Buckhannon Central Residential Historic District is a national historic district located at Buckhannon, Upshur County, West Virginia.The district encompasses 344 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, 11 contributing structures, and 2 contributing objects in Buckhannon.
South Buckhannon was an unincorporated community in Upshur County, West Virginia, United States. It has since been annexed and become a neighborhood of Buckhannon, West Virginia . References