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English: Labelled map of Royal Mail postcode districts of the WV postcode area. Indicative postcode districts shown in red, post towns shown in grey. Equirectangular projection with latitude stretching 160%, WGS84 datum. Geographic limits: Main 1:166,000 map: West: 2.638W; East: 1.998W; North: 52.713N; South: 52.393N
Luna Park Historic District - Site of the former Luna Park amusement park. Homes were built mostly after the demolition of the park and are the nicest example of this era on the West Side. [5] Magic Island - a public park along the Kanawha River and off of Kanawha Blvd W. [6]
Leonidas Henrie Oakes Sr. (1843-1894) was a member of the West Virginia State Legislature. His son, Leonidas Henrie Oakes Jr. (1873-1949) was the mayor of South Charleston for many years. He was mayor from 1920 to 1921 and also from 1930 to 1946.
Charmco in Greenbriar County, West Virginia was named after the company. The company closed in 1956 and the building was leased out as warehouse space. [2] The building, now vacant, was listed for sale in 2011 and remained on the market, until 2021, when it was listed as "under contract." [3]
Mattie V. Lee Home is a historic home located at Charleston, West Virginia.It stands on what was once a densely packed commercial block close to the center of a historically African-American neighborhood in Charleston.
Smith-Giltinan House is a historic home located at Charleston, West Virginia. It is a three-story dwelling with an asymmetrical plan. It was built about 1888 and many of its details are in the Queen Anne style. It features an asymmetrical plan, projecting bays, varied materials and textures, and elaborate porch details.
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]