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Beckley is a city in and the county seat of Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 17,286 at the 2020 census, making it the ninth-most populous city in the state. It is the principal city of the Beckley metropolitan area of Southern West Virginia, home to 115,079 residents in 2020. Beckley was founded on April 4, 1838 ...
Here's the list sorted by year: John Beckley, 1872 & 1884-1896 (Founder of Beckley) [2]; Thaddeus K. Scott, 1891; Robert T. Willis, 1893; Thaddeus K. Scott, 1894 ...
Homer Hadley Hickam Jr. (born February 19, 1943) is an American author, Vietnam War veteran, and a former NASA engineer who trained the first Japanese astronauts. His 1998 memoir Rocket Boys (also published as October Sky) was a New York Times Best Seller and was the basis for the 1999 film October Sky. Hickam's body of written work also ...
Website. raleighcounty.org. Raleigh County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 74,591. [1] Its county seat is Beckley. [2] The county was founded in 1850 and is named for Sir Walter Raleigh. [3] Raleigh County is included in the Beckley, West Virginia, Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Website. www.fayettecounty.wv.gov. Cathedral Falls. Fayette County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 40,488. [1] Its county seat is Fayetteville. [2] It is part of the Beckley, WV Metropolitan Statistical Area in Southern West Virginia. [3]
Added to NRHP. May 1, 2017. The Beckley Mill Site is a historic archaeological site off Worley Road near Piney Creek in Beckley, West Virginia. The site is that of a mill established in 1835 by Beckley's founder and namesake, Alfred Beckley. The mill remained in use into the early 20th century, but was eventually closed and abandoned.
Area. 70 acres (28 ha) Architect. Mahood, Alex B., et al.; Multiple. NRHP reference No. 94000722 [1] Added to NRHP. August 31, 1994. The Beckley Courthouse Square Historic District is a 70-acre (28 ha) historic district in Beckley, West Virginia, United States that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
Vietnam, [e][f] officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, [g] is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about 331,000 square kilometres (128,000 sq mi) and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.