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This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Harrison 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 a Google map.
Lost Creek is located at (39.158451, -80.348165) in southern Harrison County [ 9 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 0.97 square miles (2.51 km 2 ), all of it land.
Milton is a town in Cabell County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 2,831 at the 2020 census . [ 3 ] It is part of the Huntington–Ashland metropolitan area .
The first permanent settler in the area was hunter and trapper John Simpson, who erected a cabin at the mouth of Elk Creek on the West Fork River in 1763 or '64. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Simpson's name remains on " Simpson's Creek " (its mouth is about 9 miles downstream from present Clarksburg). [ 5 ]
Edwina Sheppard Pepper, established the John A. Sheppard Ecological Reservation near Marrowbone Creek in Mingo County, West Virginia, which included a homesteading community. The intention was to protect the natural resources on the land and the mountain culture, which had changed significantly after many locals moved north to work in factories ...
Ritter Park, including northern boundary streets, Huntington, West Virginia Coordinates 38°24′15″N 82°26′16″W / 38.40417°N 82.43778°W / 38.40417; -82
Early instances of western Virginia plantations with grand homes include the John Ariss-designed Harewood (1774) for George Washington's brother Samuel Washington and Happy Retreat (1780) built by Washington's younger brother Charles Washington, both of which are located near Charles Town in present-day Jefferson County.
The East Huntington Bridge (officially the "Frank Gatski Memorial Bridge", also called the "East End Bridge" or the "31st Street Bridge") is a 900-foot (270 m) cable-stayed bridge crossing the Ohio River at Huntington. It carries WV 106 on the West Virginia approach and SR 775 on the Ohio approach.