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Braxton County is a county in the central part of the U.S. state of West Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 12,447. [1] The county seat is Sutton. [2] The county was formed in 1836 [3] from parts of Lewis, Kanawha, and Nicholas counties and named for Carter Braxton, a Virginia statesman and signer of the Declaration of Independence.
The Braxton Citizens' News began in 1976 under publisher Edward R. Given. [4] Given, a former advertising manager for the Braxton Democrat, founded the paper to focus more on school and sports news. [5] Given has served as a director of the West Virginia Press Association.
Melvin Wine played his music for a variety of audiences at venues as diverse as the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the Wolf Trap Farm Park near the nation's capitol, Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, [6] at festivals across West Virginia, as well as a weekly volunteer gig at a Braxton County nursing home, homecomings, and fund ...
James E. Childers (February 8, 1964 – June 2, 2009) was a confessed American serial killer and arsonist. On June 1, 2009, he sent a package of letters and a two-hour long recording to the police station in Clarksburg, West Virginia, which contained his confessions to at least five murders and four arsons.
West Virginia portal Wikimedia Commons has media related to People of Braxton County, West Virginia . The people listed below were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Braxton County, West Virginia .
Burnsville is a town in Braxton County, West Virginia, United States, at the confluence of the Little Kanawha River and Saltlick Creek. [5] The population was 401 at the 2020 census . Burnsville was incorporated in 1902 by the Circuit Court and named for Captain John Burns who operated the first sawmill in that section of the state and who ...
Braxton County, Virginia. Died: ... Braxton County, West Virginia. William J. Carpenter (April 17, 1827 – February 21, 1921) was an American outdoorsman from West ...
Location of Braxton County in West Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Braxton County, West Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Braxton County, West Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register ...