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Bethany is a town in southern Brooke County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 756 at the 2020 census. [2] It is part of the Weirton–Steubenville metropolitan area. It is best known as the home of Bethany College, a private liberal arts college that was the first institution of higher education in what is now West Virginia.
Images of Bethany College, 1904. A liberal arts college, Bethany was chartered on March 2, 1840, by the Virginia legislature and given "all degree-granting powers" of the University of Virginia. [citation needed] West Virginia's secession from Virginia on June 20, 1863, recognized existing Virginia charters; Bethany College continues to operate ...
Bethany Historic District is a national historic district located at Bethany, Brooke County, West Virginia. It encompasses 111 contributing buildings on the campus of Bethany College , the central business district, and surrounding residential areas in Bethany.
West Virginia Junior College–Charleston: Cross Lanes: Private for-profit Associate's college: 225 1892 [48] ACICS: West Virginia Junior College–Morgantown: Morgantown: Private for-profit Associate's college: 525 1922 [47] ACICS: West Virginia Northern Community College: Wheeling: Public Associate's college: 1,222 1972 [42] [49] ACEN, JRCERT ...
Map of USA with West Virginia highlighted: Date: ... Maps of West Virginia Category:SVG maps ... Old Main (Bethany College)
This is intended to be a comprehensive list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Brooke County, West Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below may be viewed on Google maps.
Brooke County is a county in the Northern Panhandle of the U.S. state of West Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 22,559. [1] Its county seat is Wellsburg. [2] The county was created in 1797 from part of Ohio County [3] and named in honor of Robert Brooke, Governor of Virginia from 1794 to 1796. [4]
West Virginia Route 2 is a state highway in the US state of West Virginia. It generally parallels the Ohio River along the western border of the state, from U.S. Route 60 in Huntington (just west of the East End Bridge ) northeasterly to U.S. Route 30 in Chester (just south of the Jennings Randolph Memorial Bridge ).