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The Coal Valley News is a weekly newspaper produced in Madison in the U.S. state of West Virginia. [2] Published on Wednesdays, it has a 2016 circulation of 1,176, [1] and is owned by HD Media. [3] The 2014 book The Coal River Valley in the Civil War: West Virginia Mountains identified the Coal Valley News as the "region's principal local ...
The Boone County Courthouse in Madison, West Virginia was completed in 1921 in the Neoclassical Revival style. Designed by architect H. Rus Warne of Charleston, the courthouse stands on a small hill in a square. Construction started in 1917, but disputes and construction delays extended construction for four years.
Madison was first established as Boone Court House.The town was renamed circa 1865, presumably for James Madison, the fourth president of the United States.Other theories hold that it was named for lawyer James Madison Laidley or for William Madison Peyton, a pioneer coal operator, who was a leader in the movement which resulted in the formation of Boone County and for whom Peytona on Big Coal ...
Boone County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 21,809. [1] Its county seat is Madison. [2] Boone County is part of the Charleston, WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. Leading industries and chief agricultural products in Boone County include coal, lumber, natural gas, tobacco, and strawberries.
West Virginia History. West Virginia Historical Society. ISSN 0043-325X. Delf Norona (1958). West Virginia Imprints, 1790-1863: A Checklist of Books, Newspapers, Periodicals and Broadsides. Moundsville: West Virginia Library Association. OCLC 863601 – via Internet Archive. G. Thomas Tanselle (1971). "General Studies: West Virginia".
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Coal miners from West Virginia – whom locals have lovingly dubbed the “West Virginia Boys” – moved a mountain in just three days to reopen a 2.7-mile stretch of Highway 64 between Bat Cave ...
Whitesville is a town and former coal town in Boone County, West Virginia, United States, along the Big Coal River. The population was 361 at the 2020 census. [2] Whitesville was incorporated on August 15, 1935, by the Boone County Circuit Court. The town derives its name from B. W. White, a pioneer settler. [5]