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State Route 130 (SR 130) is a 15.5-mile-long (24.9 km) state highway in Pike and Barbour counties in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Alabama. The western terminus of the highway is at an intersection with U.S. Route 29 (US 29) east of Banks. The eastern terminus of the highway is at an intersection with SR 51 in Louisville.
The route travels primarily through rural areas, passing only through the unincorporated community of Skipperville before it crosses into Barbour County. SR 105 then passes through Clopton before coming to an end SR 10. The route is a two-lane road for its duration. [2]
Barbour County was established on December 18, 1832, from former Muscogee homelands and a portion of Pike County. Between the years of 1763 and 1783 the area which is now Barbour County was part of the colony of British West Florida. [3] After 1783 the region fell under the jurisdiction of the newly created United States of America.
The Philippi Covered Bridge is the oldest [3] and longest covered bridge in West Virginia and one of only two remaining in Barbour County. It is also the only covered bridge on the United States Numbered Highway System (as part of U.S. Route 250). It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
The road starts near Blue Springs at SR 10.The road has no major junctions, and the only junctions are minor county routes. The route goes past Bakerhill and then ends at U.S. Route 431 (US 431), the whole route is basically used as a shortcut between Clio and Blue Springs to the major town of Eufaula.
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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Barbour County itself was created in 1843 and named for the late Virginia politician and jurist Philip P. Barbour (1783–1841). (Barbour had served as a U.S. Congressman from Virginia, Speaker of the House, and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court .)