National Register of Historic Places listings in West Virginia

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This is a list of properties and historic districts in West Virginia that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places . There are listings in every one of West Virginia's 55 counties.

Contents

Listings range from prehistoric sites such as Grave Creek Mound, to Cool Spring Farm in the state's eastern panhandle, one of the state's first homesteads, to relatively newer, yet still historical, residences and commercial districts.

Contents: Counties in West Virginia

    This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted November 17, 2023. [1]

Current listings by county

Map all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap

The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3] There are frequent additions to the listings and occasional delistings and the counts here are approximate and not official. New entries are added to the official Register on a weekly basis. [4] Also, the counts in this table exclude boundary increase and decrease listings which only modify the area covered by an existing property or district, although carrying a separate National Register reference number.

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Sam Black Church, in Greenbrier County Sam Black Church.jpg
Sam Black Church, in Greenbrier County
South Charleston Mound, in Kanawha County Criel Mound.jpg
South Charleston Mound, in Kanawha County
Alexander Campbell Mansion in Brooke County Alexander Campbell Mansion, Route 67, Bethany (Brooke County, West Virginia).jpg
Alexander Campbell Mansion in Brooke County
Samuel Taylor Suit Cottage, in Morgan County BerkeleyCastle WestVirginia.jpg
Samuel Taylor Suit Cottage, in Morgan County
Wheeling Suspension Bridge in Ohio County WheelingSuspBridge.jpg
Wheeling Suspension Bridge in Ohio County
County# of SitesRegion [5]
1 Barbour 12Mountaineer Country
2 Berkeley 120Eastern Panhandle
3 Boone 4Metro Valley
4 Braxton 10Mountain Lakes
5 Brooke 24Northern Panhandle
6 Cabell 39Metro Valley
7 Calhoun 2Mid-Ohio Valley
8 Clay 1Mountain Lakes
9 Doddridge 9Mountaineer Country
10 Fayette 28New River/Greenbrier Valley
11 Gilmer 10Mountain Lakes
12 Grant 7Potomac Highlands
13 Greenbrier 45New River/Greenbrier Valley
14 Hampshire 28Potomac Highlands
15 Hancock 11Northern Panhandle
16 Hardy 25Potomac Highlands
17 Harrison 21Mountaineer Country
18 Jackson 10Mid-Ohio Valley
19 Jefferson 83Eastern Panhandle
20 Kanawha 88Metro Valley
21 Lewis 13Mountain Lakes
22 Lincoln 2Metro Valley
23 Logan 4Metro Valley
24 Marion 23Mountaineer Country
25 Marshall 12Northern Panhandle
26 Mason 12Metro Valley
27 McDowell 17New River/Greenbrier Valley
28 Mercer 19New River/Greenbrier Valley
29 Mineral 11Potomac Highlands
30 Mingo 8Metro Valley
31 Monongalia 44Mountaineer Country
32 Monroe 26New River/Greenbrier Valley
33 Morgan 15Eastern Panhandle
34 Nicholas 13Mountain Lakes
35 Ohio 52Northern Panhandle
36 Pendleton 13Potomac Highlands
37 Pleasants 2Mid-Ohio Valley
38 Pocahontas 23Potomac Highlands
39 Preston 22Mountaineer Country
40 Putnam 7Metro Valley
41 Raleigh 10New River/Greenbrier Valley
42 Randolph 37Potomac Highlands
43 Ritchie 6Mid-Ohio Valley
44 Roane 6Mid-Ohio Valley
45 Summers 8New River/Greenbrier Valley
46 Taylor 6Mountaineer Country
47 Tucker 11Potomac Highlands
48 Tyler 10Northern Panhandle
49 Upshur 7Mountain Lakes
50 Wayne 8Metro Valley
51 Webster 7Mountain Lakes
52 Wetzel 4Northern Panhandle
53 Wirt 6Mid-Ohio Valley
54 Wood 48Mid-Ohio Valley
55 Wyoming 4New River/Greenbrier Valley
(duplicates)(4) [6] n/a
Total:1,089n/a

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References

  1. National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior, "National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions", retrieved November 17, 2023.
  2. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 24, 2008.
  3. "National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions". National Park Service. Archived from the original on June 20, 2000. Retrieved January 2, 2009.
  4. Weekly List Actions, National Register of Historic Places website
  5. Grouping of counties into regions, as defined by West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History, following West Virginia Department of Tourism regions. This partition is similar to groupings used by other organizations and tourism guidebooks.
  6. The following sites are listed in multiple counties: Alderson Bridge (Greenbrier and Monroe), Alderson Historic District (Greenbrier and Monroe), Fairfax Stone Site (Grant, Preston and Tucker).

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