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Location of Upshur County in West Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Upshur County, West Virginia.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Upshur County, West Virginia, United States.
The district encompasses 344 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, 11 contributing structures, and 2 contributing objects in Buckhannon. It consists of primarily single family residential homes dating from the mid-19th through mid-20th century.
The City of Buckhannon was established on January 15, 1816, possible named for Buckongahelas [8] (1720-1805), the legendary Lenape Chief. A statue of Buckongahelas and his fallen son, crafted by Buckhannon sculptor Ross Straight, was erected in Buckhannon West Virginia’s Jawbone Park in 2000. [9]
South Buckhannon (the United States) Show map of the United States Coordinates: 38°58′55″N 80°13′16″W / 38.98194°N 80.22111°W / 38.98194; -80
William Post Mansion, also known as the Post Mansion Inn, is a historic home located at Buckhannon, Upshur County, West Virginia. It was originally built in the 1860s and extensively renovated in 1891 in the Neo-Classical Revival style. It is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, brick dwelling with a three-story stone tower.
Dan Emmett was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio, then a frontier region. [citation needed]His grandfather, Rev. John Emmett (1759–1847), had been born in Cecil County, Maryland, and after serving as a private in the American Revolutionary War and fighting at the Battle of White Plains in New York and later in Delaware, became a Methodist minister in the then-vast frontier of Augusta County ...
The Buckhannon River is a 45.4-mile-long (73.1 km) [3] tributary of the Tygart Valley River in north-central West Virginia, USA.Via the Tygart Valley, Monongahela and Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 309 square miles (800 km 2) on the unglaciated portion of the Allegheny Plateau.
Buckhannon-Upshur High School (B-UHS) is a high school located in Upshur County, West Virginia, United States. It enrolls approximately 1,300 students. It is located at 270 B-U Drive, about two miles south of Buckhannon city limits. The school offers grades 9-12, and serves all of Upshur County with some students from surrounding counties.