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Harrisville Historic District is a national historic district located at Harrisville, Ritchie County, West Virginia. The district encompasses 111 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 15 contributing structures in Harrisville. It includes residential, commercial, and governmental buildings dating from the mid-19th through mid-20th ...
Ritchie County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,444. [1] Its county seat is Harrisville. [2] The county was created in 1843 by the Virginia General Assembly and named for Richmond newspaper publisher Thomas Ritchie. [3]
In these counties, the new magisterial districts are used only for the allocation of county officials, and the collection of census data; the former magisterial districts continue to exist in the form of tax districts. [6] A List of the current and former magisterial districts of West Virginia, sorted by county: [1] [7]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Ritchie 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.
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]
Indian Creek is a stream located entirely within Ritchie County, West Virginia. [1] It is a tributary of Hughes River. Indian Creek was named after the Indians (Native Americans) who once dwelled in the area. [2]
Harrisville is a town and the county seat of Ritchie County, West Virginia, United States. [5] Harrisville is located at the junction of State Routes 31 and 16, five miles south of U.S. 50 . Within the community are an elementary school, the county board of education, many businesses, three banks, a library, offices of the Ritchie Gazette and ...
The Ritchie County Courthouse in Harrisville, West Virginia, is a Neoclassical Revival building designed in 1923 by Clarksburg architects Holmboe & Pogue, [2] and built by Forman & Putnam. It replaced an 1874 courthouse. The courthouse is relatively elaborate compared to its largely rural setting. [3]