Fowlerstown, West Virginia

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Fowlerstown, West Virginia
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Fowlerstown
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Fowlerstown
Fowlerstown (the US)
Coordinates: 40°16′47″N80°33′19″W / 40.27972°N 80.55528°W / 40.27972; -80.55528 Coordinates: 40°16′47″N80°33′19″W / 40.27972°N 80.55528°W / 40.27972; -80.55528
Country United States
State West Virginia
County Brooke
Time zone Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
  Summer (DST) EDT (UTC-4)
GNIS feature ID 1539200 [1]

Fowlerstown is an unincorporated community in Brooke County, West Virginia. It lies on West Virginia Route 27 east of Wellsburg. It was also known as Fowlerston.

Unincorporated area Region of land not governed by own local government

In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not governed by a local municipal corporation; similarly an unincorporated community is a settlement that is not governed by its own local municipal corporation, but rather is administered as part of larger administrative divisions, such as a township, parish, borough, county, city, canton, state, province or country. Occasionally, municipalities dissolve or disincorporate, which may happen if they become fiscally insolvent, and services become the responsibility of a higher administration. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. In most other countries of the world, there are either no unincorporated areas at all, or these are very rare; typically remote, outlying, sparsely populated or uninhabited areas.

Brooke County, West Virginia County in the United States

Brooke County is a county in the Northern Panhandle of the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 24,069. Its county seat is Wellsburg. The county was created in 1797 from part of Ohio County and named in honor of Robert Brooke, Governor of Virginia from 1794 to 1796.

West Virginia Route 27 highway in West Virginia

West Virginia Route 27 is an east–west state highway located within the Northern Panhandle county of Brooke in West Virginia. The western terminus of the route is at West Virginia Route 2 in Wellsburg. The eastern terminus is at the Pennsylvania state line five miles (8 km) east of Wellsburg, where WV 27 continues east into the border town of Independence as Pennsylvania Route 844.

The Inn at Fowlerstown is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [2]

Inn at Fowlerstown

Inn at Fowlerstown, also known as Drover's Inn, is a historic hotel located near Wellsburg in Brooke County, West Virginia, United States. The inn was built between 1848 and 1851, and is a 2½-story brick building in the Greek Revival style. The property also includes a two-story log house (1820) and frame cottage that pre-date the inn. Contributing outbuildings are a small clapboard well house, chicken coop, and privy. Before 1938, the inn housed a general store and post office that served the small village of Fowlerstown. The village grew up around along Washington Pike at the grist mill established by William Fowler.

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References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Fowlerstown, West Virginia
  2. Mark H. Cooper and Katherine M. Jourdan (August 1992). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Inn at Fowlerstown" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-07-23.