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Marlinton is a town in and the county seat of Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States. [6] The population was 998 at the 2020 census . Located along the Greenbrier River , it is known for its scenery.
Pocahontas County is a county located in the eastern part of the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 7,869. [2] Its county seat is Marlinton. [3] The county was established in 1821. It is named after the daughter of the Powhatan chief of the Native Americans in the United States who came from Jamestown, Virginia.
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]
The Greenbrier River in Marlinton. The Greenbrier River is a tributary of the New River, 162 miles (261 km) long, [2] in southeastern West Virginia, in the United States.Via the New, Kanawha and Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 1,656 square miles (4,290 km 2). [2]
North end of WV 63 overlap: Lewisburg: US 60 – Hico, White Sulphur Springs: I-64 – Lexington VA, Beckley: Interchange; I-64 exit 169: Pocahontas: Mill Point: WV 39 / WV 55 west – Fenwick: South end of WV 39/WV 55 overlaps: Marlinton: WV 39 east – Minnehaha Springs: North end of WV 39 overlap: Edray: WV 150 south – Raintown: Northern ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pocahontas 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 seen in an online map.
The Greenbrier River Trail (GRT), [1] is a lineal state park comprising a 77.1-mile (124.1 km) rail trail between North Caldwell and Cass in eastern West Virginia, United States. [ 2 ] The GRT route and its contours were originally engineered by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway , serving as a passenger and freight line before becoming unviable ...
Slatyfork is an unincorporated community in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States. Slatyfork is located along U.S. Route 219, 13.5 miles (21.7 km) north of Marlinton. A variant name was Laurel Bank. [3] A large cave known as Sharps Cave is located in Slatyfork. [4]