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The Thomas Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Thomas, Tucker County, West Virginia. It encompasses 48 contributing buildings and two contributing structures. They include the business and commercial core of Thomas.
Thomas is located along the North Fork of the Blackwater River. [ 10 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 4.51 square miles (11.68 km 2 ), of which 4.46 square miles (11.55 km 2 ) is land and 0.05 square miles (0.13 km 2 ) is water.
A United States Navy destroyer, the USS Herbert J. Thomas (DD-833), was named in his honor. The destroyer was launched on March 25, 1945, and commissioned on May 29, 1945. The Thomas Memorial Hospital (now part of Thomas Health System) in South Charleston, West Virginia, is also named in his honor.
Its name is derived from Thomas Lord Fairfax who owned all the land lying between the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers. The first Fairfax Stone, marked "FX", was set in 1746 by Thomas Lewis, a surveyor employed by Lord Fairfax. This is the base point for the western dividing line between Maryland and West Virginia."
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Cabell County, West Virginia. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
Sweet Springs Resort and spa was founded in Sweet Springs, West Virginia, United States in 1792. Once known as Old Sweet Springs, [3] this historic resort hotel is currently undergoing renovation by the nonprofit Sweet Springs Resort Park Foundation. The property enjoys notoriety for its natural hot spring.
Memorial Bridge (Parkersburg, West Virginia) S. Silver Bridge; V. Veterans Memorial Bridge (Steubenville, Ohio) This page was last edited on 24 January 2023, at ...
This list of museums in West Virginia encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.