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This is a list of school districts in West Virginia, sorted in an alphabetical order. Since 1933, all public school districts in the U.S. state of West Virginia have, by law, exactly followed the county boundaries. All school districts are independent governments. No public school systems are dependent on another layer of government. [1]
Washington spent three summers and falls surveying Lord Fairfax's Northern Neck estate, which included all of the present-day Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. In April 1748, he laid off several lots in an area known as the Trough , about ten miles (16 km) south of Romney, and he is known to have been in present-day Romney on October 19, 1749.
Back Creek is a 59.5-mile-long (95.8 km) [1] tributary of the Potomac River that flows north from Frederick County, Virginia, to Berkeley County in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. Back Creek originates along Frederick County's border with Hampshire County, West Virginia, at Farmer's Gap in the Great North Mountain.
The community’s Slanesville Elementary School along WV 29 south of town was host to President George H. W. Bush in April 1991 when he landed by helicopter in a field adjacent to the school to award Rae Ellen McKee the National Teacher of the Year award for 1991. A fifth grade remedial reading teacher, McKee was chosen from among the nation's ...
Bridgeport is a city in eastern Harrison County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 9,325 at the 2020 census. [2] It is part of the Clarksburg micropolitan area in North Central West Virginia.
Greenbrier County became part of the new state of West Virginia, although it never participated in any of the votes held by the Restored Government in Wheeling. West Virginia contributed approximately 20,000 men to the Union and an equal amount to the Confederate army, with approximately 2,000 men from Greenbrier county joining the Confederate ...
Berkeley Springs is the name of the postal area/U.S. Post Office that serves a large portion of Morgan County to include the municipality of the Town of Bath. The town is the county seat of, Morgan County, West Virginia, United States, in the state's eastern panhandle. [5]
Cairo (/ ˈ k ɛər oʊ / KAIR-oh) is a town in Ritchie County, West Virginia, United States, along West Virginia Route 31, the North Fork of the Hughes River, and the North Bend Rail Trail. [5] The population was 174 at the 2020 census .