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Beckley is a city in and the county seat of Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 17,286 at the 2020 census , making it the ninth-most populous city in the state. It is the principal city of the Beckley metropolitan area of Southern West Virginia , home to 115,079 residents in 2020.
The Phil G. McDonald Memorial Bridge, also known as the Glade Creek Bridge, is a deck truss bridge located in Raleigh County, West Virginia near the city of Beckley.The bridge is among the ten highest bridges in the United States, and was the highest bridge within the Interstate Highway System (being a part of I-64) before the Mike O'Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge connecting Arizona ...
View north along WV 41 at US 19 in Summersville WV 41 in Prince WV 41 crosses the New River at the Thomas Burford Pugh Memorial Bridge near Prince. West Virginia Route 41 (WV 41) is a 64.8-mile-long (104.3 km) north–south state highway in the central part of the U.S. state of West Virginia. Its southern terminus is at WV 210 in Beckley.
Barrackville Covered Bridge. This is a list of West Virginia covered bridges. There are 17 historic wooden covered bridges in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Only three of these bridges were built before 1870 and they are the three longest in the state. Each uses a standard truss design, braced with the Burr Arch. No one-truss design dominates ...
General Alfred Beckley (1802–88) wanted his home to be the center of what he envisioned for Beckley, West Virginia which he founded in 1838. Although his town was a piece of paper in 1838, it would later become the county seat of Raleigh County, West Virginia, which was also founded by Beckley in 1850. [2]
Raleigh County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 74,591. [1] Its county seat is Beckley. [2] The county was founded in 1850 and is named for Sir Walter Raleigh. [3] Raleigh County is included in the Beckley, West Virginia, Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Homes, businesses and roads in the Greek tourist island of Rhodes were covered in mud and debris on Monday after Storm Bora battered the country over the weekend. In the resort of Faliraki the ...
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 ).