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Historically, Gilmer County was the northwesternmost of the fiercely Democratic, secessionist counties of West Virginia. It voted Democratic in every election from 1872 to 1968 – in 1928 when there was large-scale anti-Catholic voting throughout Appalachian West Virginia it was Al Smith ’s strongest county in the state. [ 18 ]
Gilmer is an unincorporated community in Gilmer County, West Virginia, United States. Gilmer is located along West Virginia Route 5 and the Little Kanawha River, 3 miles (4.8 km) southeast of Sand Fork. [2] Gilmer had a post office, which opened on November 28, 1905, and closed on November 2, 2002. [3]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Gilmer 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 a Google map.
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]
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 ...
Gilmer County Poor Farm Infirmary is a historic poor farm infirmary building located near Glenville, Gilmer County, West Virginia.It was built in 1907 by what is now the Glenville Golf Club, and is a two-story, three-bay, center entrance frame building with a cross-hip pitched roof and Colonial Revival-style details.
Transportation in Gilmer County, West Virginia (12 P) Pages in category "Gilmer County, West Virginia" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
This is a category for National Register of Historic Places listings in Gilmer County, West Virginia The main article for this category is National Register of Historic Places listings in Gilmer County, West Virginia .