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McDowell County is a county in the State of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 19,111. [2] Its county seat is Welch. [3] McDowell County is the southernmost county in the state. It was created in 1858 by the Virginia General Assembly and named for Virginia Governor James McDowell. [4]
People from Welch, West Virginia (26 P) Pages in category "People from McDowell County, West Virginia" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in McDowell 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.
Geography of McDowell County, West Virginia (4 C, 5 P) P. People from McDowell County, West Virginia (8 C, 27 P) T.
On in the courthouse yard, John Hardy, a black railroad worker, was hanged for murdering a man in Eckman, WV, then known as the Shawnee Coal Camp, over a gambling dispute. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] This January 19, 1894, execution was the subject of a song: "John Hardy," which remains a staple of folk, blues, and bluegrass music. [ 7 ]
Harry Jheopart Capehart was born in Charleston, West Virginia, on May 2, 1881, [1] [2] [3] the son of merchant Joseph Capehart and his wife Maggie Woodyard Capehart. [1] [3] Capehart's maternal grandparents had been enslaved people in North Carolina; they were manumitted prior to the Emancipation Proclamation and provided with farmland in present-day Logan County, West Virginia, where they ...
Kimball is a town in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 145. [4] Kimball was incorporated in 1911 and named for Frederick J. Kimball, a railroad official. [5] Kimball is the site of the first war memorial building erected in memory of the African-American veterans of World War I. [6]
This is a category for National Register of Historic Places listings in McDowell County, West Virginia The main article for this category is National Register of Historic Places listings in McDowell County, West Virginia .