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Philippi ('FILL-uh-pea') is a city in and the county seat of Barbour County, West Virginia, United States, along the Tygart Valley River. [5] The population was 2,929 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] In 1861, the city was the site of the Battle of Philippi , known as the "Philippi Races".
The Barbour Democrat is a weekly newspaper published on Wednesdays in Philippi, West Virginia. [2] It is the only newspaper published in Barbour County and has a paid circulation of 5,300, accounting for 31% of the county's population. [3] It is a member of the West Virginia Press Association.
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Philippi, West Virginia, is home to a surprising array of history and folklore, as well as a couple of mummies and some downright spooky tales. Day-trip destination: Eerie, fascinating Philippi ...
In 2006, John Veasey, a reporter and editor with the paper since 1960, won the Adam R. Kelly Premier Journalist Award, the West Virginia Press Associations' highest honor. [10] The award was established in 1991 in memory of Adam R. Kelly, who was the owner and editor of the Tyler Star News in Sistersville.
The Tygart Valley River rises in the Allegheny Mountains in Pocahontas County and flows generally north-northwestwardly through Randolph, Barbour, Taylor and Marion counties, past the towns of Huttonsville, Mill Creek, Beverly, Elkins, Junior, Belington, Philippi, Arden, and Grafton, to Fairmont, where it joins the West Fork River to form the Monongahela River. [6]
By the 1850s, when a major covered bridge was constructed at Philippi to service travellers on the Beverly-Fairmont Turnpike, the county's population was approaching 10,000 people. The first newspaper in the county was the Barbour Jeffersonian , published starting in August 1857 and running only to about June 1861.