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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".
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Eastern terminus of WV-76: Philippi: US 119 south / US 250 Truck south – Buckhannon: South end of US-119 overlap: Philippi Covered Bridge over Roaring Creek: US 250 Truck north (Blue and Gray Expressway) to US 119 – Buckhannon, Grafton: WV 38 east – Parsons: Western terminus of WV-38: Belington: WV 92 north – Morgantown: North end of WV ...
Barbour County is a county in north central West Virginia, United States.At the 2020 census, the population was 15,465. [5] The county seat is Philippi, [6] which was chartered in 1844.
Roughly bounded by Pike, High, Walnut, Wolfe, Main, Wilson Sts., and Tygart Valley River, Philippi, West Virginia Coordinates 39°9′0″N 80°2′20″W / 39.15000°N 80.03889°W / 39.15000; -80
The Old Barbour County Courthouse (1844-46) was on the same site as its successor. (Photo ca 1890.). The Barbour County Courthouse in Philippi, Barbour County, West Virginia, USA is a monumental public building constructed between 1903 and 1905 in the Richardsonian Romanesque style.
Philip Barbour High School is the sole public high school serving Barbour County, West Virginia. The school is named, as is the county it serves, for Philip P. Barbour, a former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Philip Barbour High School was the result of the ...
George Alexander Porterfield (November 24, 1822 – February 27, 1919) was a junior officer of United States forces in the Mexican–American War, colonel, in the Confederate States Army during the first year of the American Civil War and longtime banker in Charles Town, West Virginia, after the war.