WOW.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Harpers Ferry, West Virginia - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpers_Ferry,_West_Virginia

   Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. /  39.32778°N 77.74639°W  / 39.32778; -77.74639. Harpers Ferry is a historic town in Jefferson County, West Virginia, in the lower Shenandoah Valley. The town's population was 269 at the 2020 United States census. Situated at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers, where Maryland, Virginia, and ...

3. National Register of Historic Places listings in Mercer ...

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of...

   1. Bluefield Downtown Commercial Historic District. Bluefield Downtown Commercial Historic District. March 18, 1987. ( #87000630) Roughly bounded by Princeton Ave. and Scott, High, and Russell Sts. 37°16′04″N 81°13′18″W. /  37.267778°N 81.221667°W  / 37.267778; -81.221667  ( Bluefield Downtown Commercial Historic District ...

4. Terra Alta, West Virginia - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_Alta,_West_Virginia

   Terra Alta is a town in eastern Preston County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 1,415 at the 2020 census . [6] It is part of the Morgantown metropolitan area .

5. Huntington–Ashland metropolitan area - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntington–Ashland...

   The Huntington–Ashland metropolitan area is a metropolitan area in the Appalachian Plateau region of the United States. Referred to locally as the " Tri-State area ," and colloquially as "Kyova" ( K entuck y, O hio, and West V irgini a ), the region spans seven counties in the three states of Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia. [3]

6. History of slavery in West Virginia - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_West...

   18,371. Western Virginia's slave population peaked in 1850 with 20,428 enslaved people, or nearly 7% of the population. In 1860 the number of enslaved people was 18,371. [36] [full citation needed] Much of the decreased number of enslaved people in West Virginia was due to the high demand for them in the lower South.

7. West Virginia - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia

   West Virginia is a landlocked state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. [note 2] It is bordered by Pennsylvania to the north and east, Maryland to the east and northeast, Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, and Ohio to the northwest. West Virginia is the 10th-smallest state by area and ranks as the ...