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On December 31, 2014, West Virginia University announced that it would purchase MSU’s former Beckley campus for $8 million. [22] On September 1, 2015, the WVU board of governors approved a plan to move the West Virginia University Institute of Technology from its then-current campus in Montgomery to the former MSU campus in Beckley. [23]
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.
WV 16 south – Beckley: south end of WV 16 overlap: see WV 16: Oak Hill: WV 16 north (Main Street) – Fayetteville: north end of WV 16 overlap: Montgomery: To US 60 (via WV 6) to Montgomery Bridge: Kanawha: Chelyan: To I-64 / I-77 / US 60 – Cedar Grove, Charleston, Beckley: interchange; I-77 exit 85; to Chelyan Bridge: Marmet: WV 94 south ...
West Virginia University is also the state's sole participant university in the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program. [9] In addition, West Virginia has two historically black colleges and universities that are members of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund: Bluefield State University and West Virginia State University. [10] [11]
In the early 1910s, Montgomery was the shipping center for 26 different coal operations and was the largest town in Fayette County at the time. [ 6 ] From 1895 until its 2017 move to Beckley , Montgomery was the home of West Virginia University Institute of Technology , popularly called WVU Tech .
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.
View north along WV 41 at US 19 in Summersville WV 41 in Prince WV 41 crosses the New River at the Thomas Burford Pugh Memorial Bridge near Prince. West Virginia Route 41 (WV 41) is a 64.8-mile-long (104.3 km) north–south state highway in the central part of the U.S. state of West Virginia. Its southern terminus is at WV 210 in Beckley.
WV 10 near Pineville; I-64 / I-77 near Beckley; US 19 in Oak Hill; US 60 in Gauley Bridge; I-79 near Big Chimney; US 33 / US 119 near Arnoldsburg; US 50 near Ellenboro; North end: WV 2 in St. Marys: Location; Country: United States: State: West Virginia: Counties: McDowell, Wyoming, Raleigh, Fayette, Nicholas, Clay, Calhoun, Ritchie, Pleasants ...