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James Franklin Comstock (25 February 1911, Richwood, West Virginia - 22 May 1996, Huntington, West Virginia) was a West Virginia writer, newspaper publisher and humorist. He founded the weekly West Virginia Hillbilly (1957-1980) and compiled a definitive 51-volume encyclopedia of West Virginia history and culture.
Location of Jefferson County in West Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Jefferson County, West Virginia.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States.
Point Pleasant Historic District is a national historic district located at Point Pleasant, Mason County, West Virginia.The district includes 93 contributing buildings and one contributing site in Point Pleasant's central business district and surrounding residential areas.
Boone County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 21,809. [1] Its county seat is Madison. [2] Boone County is part of the Charleston, WV Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Lewisburg is located approximately one mile north of the Greenbrier River. [15]According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.81 square miles (9.87 km 2), of which 3.80 square miles (9.84 km 2) is land and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km 2) is water. [16]
Altona, near Charles Town, West Virginia, is a historic farm with an extensive set of subsidiary buildings. The original Federal style plantation house was built in 1793 by Revolutionary War officer Abraham Davenport on land purchased from Charles Washington. The house was expanded by Abraham's son, Colonel Braxton Davenport.
Danville is a town in Boone County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 660 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] Danville was incorporated in 1911 and named for Dan Rock, [ 5 ] the town's first postmaster.
Winfield is a city in and the county seat of Putnam County, West Virginia, United States, located along the Kanawha River. [5] The population was 2,397 at the 2020 census. [2] It is part of the Huntington–Ashland metropolitan area.