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View north along WV 10 at WV 3 in West Hamlin. West Virginia Route 10 is a north–south route from Cabell County to Mercer County in the western and southern regions of West Virginia. Mostly a two-lane, winding highway with no shoulders, Route 10 is considered to be one of substandard design when compared to modern standards.
Melbourne is a home rule-class city in Campbell County, Kentucky, United States, along the south bank of the Ohio River. The population was 458 at the 2020 census. St. Anne Convent is located in Melbourne; scenes from the movie Rain Man were filmed there.
USGS physiographic map of Kentucky showing the location of the Knobs. The Knobs Region or The Knobs is located in the US state of Kentucky. It is a narrow, arc-shaped region consisting of hundreds of isolated hills. The region wraps around the southern and eastern parts of the Bluegrass region in the
The Walter House near Melbourne, Kentucky was built in c. 1869. [citation needed] The house has a five bay I-house plan. [2] In March 1983 it was determined eligible for National Register listing but was not listed due to owner objection. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. [1]
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]
View west along WV 37 at US 52 in Fort Gay. West Virginia Route 37 is an east–west state highway in western West Virginia. The western terminus of the route is at the Kentucky state line in Fort Gay, where WV 37 becomes Kentucky Route 3 Spur upon crossing the Tug Fork. The eastern terminus is at West Virginia Route 10 one mile (1.6 km) south ...
Cedar Creek State Park is sited on 2,588 acres (1,047 ha) [2] along Cedar Creek [4] in Gilmer County, West Virginia, located about 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Glenville.Two of the buildings at the park are historical restorations of West Virginia's pioneer days, including a log cabin now used as the campground check-in station, and the Pine Run One Room School, an old one-room schoolhouse ...
Middlebourne was established by an enactment of the Virginia General Assembly in 1813. [6] Two explanations have been given for the name of the town: One is that it was located halfway between Pennsylvania and a series of salt wells along the Kanawha River upstream of Charleston; the other is that it is located midway between the source and the mouth of Middle Island Creek, [6] which flows ...