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Marshall County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.At the 2020 census, the population was 30,591. [1] Its county seat is Moundsville. [2] With its southern border at what would be a continuation of the Mason-Dixon line to the Ohio River, it forms the base of the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia.
The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. [1] West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. [2]
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Location of Marshall County in West Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Marshall County, West Virginia.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Marshall County, West Virginia, United States.
The Fayette County Public Library houses microfilm records of census records from 1840 to 1930, newspapers from 1906-present, WV county death, marriage, and birth records, Fayette County yearbooks, local magazines, family collections, the West Virginia Collection, and other miscellaneous collections about West Virginia.
Moundsville is a city in and the county seat of Marshall County, West Virginia, United States, along the Ohio River. [4] The population was 8,122 at the 2020 census. [2] It is part of the Wheeling metropolitan area. The city was named for the nearby ancient Grave Creek Mound, constructed 250 to 100 BC by indigenous people of the Adena culture. [5]
Sherrard is an unincorporated community in Marshall County, West Virginia, United States. Sherrard is located on West Virginia Route 88, 3 miles (4.8 km) east of McMechen. It is named for politician and lawyer Sherrard Clemens.
The Craft Memorial Library was opened in 1974 with funding from John Elliot Craft and Hellen T. Craft who were married business partners in West Virginia running a regional transportation business. The Mercer County Bookmobile started that same year, and the current bookmobile can hold a maximum of 3,500 books. [2]