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Devastating floods in 1977 and 1984 destroyed the basketball court floors, wood seats, and some wooden bleachers. However, sympathetic and similar replacements were installed. In 1986, the original 275 wooden theater-style seats were replaced with 115 actual theater seats from nearby Williamson High School Theater. When the flood waters reached ...
Williamson is a city in and the county seat of Mingo County, West Virginia, United States, situated along the Tug Fork River. [7] The population was 3,042 at the 2020 census. and is the county's largest and most populous city. Williamson is home to Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College.
July 1977 sports events in the United States ... Johnstown flood of 1977; L. 1977 Libertarian National Convention; N. 1977 Nestlé boycott; New York City blackout of ...
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Updated maps from Williamson County show an increase of 6,000 structures in the 100-year flood plains. The last information available was from 1994.
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South Williamson is protected by a floodwall, built by the US Army Corps of Engineers in response to a devastating flood along the Tug Fork River in 1977. There have only been two uses of the gates thus far; the first occurred in 2002 during a major flood in the region, and the second in 2003, due to anticipation of the rising river getting higher.
The Williamson Daily News is a newspaper in Williamson, West Virginia. It was founded in 1912 and is the successor to a previous weekly effort, The Southern West Virginian , founded in 1900. As of July 3, 2019, the paper publishes as a weekly on Wednesdays.