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Barbour County is a county in north central West Virginia, United States. At the 2020 census , the population was 15,465. [5] The county seat is Philippi , [6] which was chartered in 1844.
The local West Virginia historian Hu Maxwell was bemused by the origin of these people when he studied Barbour County history in the late 1890s: There is a clan of partly-colored people in Barbour County often called "Guineas", under the erroneous presumption that they are Guinea negroes. They vary in color from white to black, often have blue ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Barbour 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.
August 29, 1990. The Philippi Historic District (PHD) is national historic district located at Philippi, Barbour County, West Virginia, USA. It encompasses 113 contributing buildings and one contributing structure dating from the mid-19th century through early 20th century. The district includes the commercial, ecclesiastical, and civic core of ...
Website. www .philippi .org. Philippi ('FILL-uh-pea') is a city in and the county seat of Barbour County, West Virginia, United States, along the Tygart Valley River. [5] The population was 2,929 at the 2020 census. [2] In 1861, the city was the site of the Battle of Philippi, known as the "Philippi Races".
81000595 [1] Added to NRHP. June 4, 1981. The Carrollton Covered Bridge, in Barbour County, West Virginia, U.S., is the second longest and third oldest surviving covered bridge in the state. The wooden bridge spans the Buckhannon River near Carrollton and was built in 1856 by Emmet J. O'Brien and Daniel O'Brien.
The Philippi Covered Bridge is the oldest [3] and longest covered bridge in West Virginia and one of only two remaining in Barbour County. It is also the only covered bridge on the United States Numbered Highway System (as part of U.S. Route 250 ). It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
Belington, West Virginia. Location of Belington in Barbour County, West Virginia. / 39.02583°N 79.93806°W / 39.02583; -79.93806. Belington is a town in Barbour County, West Virginia, United States, situated along the Tygart Valley River. The population was 1,804 as of the 2020 census.