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Section Ten

✩ MUNICIPALITIES ✩

Municipal Register

Historical Information

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CLASS I, II AND III CITIES Under the provisions of Chapter 56, Acts of the Legislature, regular session, 1937, municipal corporations are classified by population as fol- lows: Population in excess of 50,000, Class I city; population more than 10,000 and not more than 50,000, Class II city; and population more than 2,000 and not more than 10,000, Class III city. Municipal corporations not included in these classifications are known as towns or villages.

Transition from one to another class of municipal corporation occurs automatically when the requisite population qualification has been met. Population is determined on the basis of the last preceding census taken under the authority of the Congress of the United States or the Legisla- ture of West Virginia.

Information for this section supplied by various municipal mayors, clerks or recorders and the West Virginia Municipal League. Population figures are from the 2010 census, unless designated otherwise.

Addison—Webster County Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next election, June 11, 2013. Zip Code 26288 - Webster Springs Active bank: United Bank. Hospital: Webster County Memorial Hospital. (Magisterial District: Fork Lick). Mayor: Don E. McCourt. County seat. Name of town, Addison; name of post office, Webster Springs. Incorporated in 1892 Recorder-Treasurer: Elaine E. Green. as Addison and named for Addison McLaughlin, upon whose land the town was originally laid out. City Clerk: Nora J. Stout. The post office name, Webster Springs, is a combination of the name of the county with the Fire Chief: Dave Berry. various sulphur springs found here. City Attorney: Howard Blyler. The Webster County Nature Tour, one of West Virginia’s oldest and most successful such events, Members of Council: Judy Hall; Woody is held every first weekend in May. Webster Pugh; Kevin Stout; Larry Clevenger; Lewis Wildwater Weekend is held the second weekend Woodard. in April. The town hosts kayak and canoe racers Municipal Judge: Elaine E. Green. from throughout the eastern United States. The Burgoo International Cook-off is held every Municipal Building Commission: Steve Columbus Day weekend. Jordan; Paul Ridgway; William Tanner.

The WV-R.A.V.E. (bike tour) is held the first Librarian: Angie Powers. weekend in June. The Cowen Railroad Festival is held the last full week in July. The Holly River Postmaster: Julie Rader. Festival is held Labor Day Weekend, as well as the Webster County Fair. Street Commissioner: (Vacancy).

Each Memorial Day weekend Webster Springs ______hosts the Southeastern United States World Championship Woodchopping Contest. Arden Albright—Preston County Cogar, World Championship Chopper and local logger, hosts woodchoppers from all over the Zip Code 26519 world. The Festival also features state championships in the Fireman’s Rodeo and (Magisterial District: Portland). Turkey Calling contests. Incorporated in 1914. Named for David Population, 776 (2010 Census); elevation, 1,509 Albright, owner of the land upon which the feet; elections held every two years on the second town is built. Formerly known as Albrightsville.

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Population, 299 (2010 Census); elevation, Members of Council: Tod Hanger; Becky 1,218 feet; elections held every two years on the Keadle; Ann Eskins; Sam McClung; Richard second Tuesday in June; officials take office Parker, Jr. July first; next election, June 11, 2013. ______Mayor: John Uphold.

Recorder-Treasurer: Melynda Cooper. Anawalt—McDowell County

Police Chief: Justin Childers. Zip Code 24808

Fire Chief: Eric Graham. (Magisterial District: North Elkin).

City Attorney: Sheila Williams. Incorporated in 1949. Town named in honor of Colonel Anawalt, who was then manager of Members of Council: John Sphar; Tammy Union Supply Company, a subsidiary of the Sphar; Terry Wiles; Ronda Uphold; Amber United States Steel Company. Coal mining is Graham. the chief industry.

______Population, 226 (2010 Census); volunteer fire department; elections held every four years on second Tuesday in June; officials take office Alderson—Monroe and July first; next election, June 11, 2013. Greenbrier Counties Mayor: Dorothy Wilson. Zip Code 24910 Recorder: Dorothy Wilson. (Magisterial Districts: Wolf Creek and Chief of Police: Frank Wyckoff. Blue Sulphur). Members of Council: Doris Revels; Incorporated by Act of the Legislature in Stephen Gaminde; Madge Goodman; Joyce Bell 1881 and named for John Alderson, Baptist Sergent. minister who settled in the community in 1777. Location of the Federal Prison Camp for ______Women.

Population, 1,184 (2010 Census); elevation, Anmoore—Harrison County 1,540 feet; volunteer fire department; elections held every two years on the second Tuesday in Zip Code 26323 June; officials take office July first; next election, June 11, 2013. (Magisterial District: Simpson).

Active bank: City National Bank. The certificate of incorporation was granted to Anmoore by the Harrison County Court on Mayor: Joseph S. Veazey. November 13, 1950. The town lies three miles east of Clarksburg on Secondary State Route Recorder: (Vacancy). Nos. 23 and 58 and Interstate 79; is an industrial town; chief industry is Graftech Treasurer-Clerk: Crystal D. Byer. International. Clerk: (Vacancy). Population, 770 (2010 Census); volunteer fire Fire Chief: Frankie Jones. department; elections held every two years on the second Tuesday in June; next election, Chief of Police: Jeremy Bennett. June 11, 2013; officials take office July first. Regular council meetings are held on the first Police Judge: Travis Copenhaver. and third Monday of each month.

Waterworks Supervisor: Donald Steep. Mayor: P. Eddie Hardman.

Wastewater Superintendent: Billy E. Clerk: Linda Van Scoy. Forren. Recorder: Terry Sue Allen. Facilities and Maintenance Coordinator: Rick Burns. Chief of Police: Christopher Magee.

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Municipal Judge: James Terango. held annually on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next election, Public Works Director: Ron Golden. June 10, 2014.

Members of Council: Jason Cawthon; Active bank: BB&T Bank. Ronald Golden; Anna Harvey; Glen Grogg; Manuel Gizzi. Mayor: Carol Bard.

______Recorder: John David Smith.

City Attorney: M. Hud McClanahan.

Ansted—Fayette County Chief of Police: C. T. Lowe.

Zip Code 25812 Fire Chief: John Casey.

(Magisterial District: New Haven). Town Clerk: Elizabeth Owen.

Incorporated in 1891 and named for David T. Members of Council: Joe Manzo; Roger Ansted, a celebrated geologist of London, Lokay; Sally Campbell; Timothy Pike; Charles England, a former owner of the land upon S. Inghram. which the town is located. Julie Neale Jackson Woodson, the Mother of Thomas J. (Stonewall) ______Jackson, is buried here in Westlake Cemetery as are several Civil War soldiers. Auburn—Ritchie County Population, 1,404 (2010 Census); elections held every four years on the first Tuesday in Zip Code 26325 June; officials take office July first; next election, June 4, 2013. (Magisterial District: Union).

Active banks: United National Bank, Fayette Incorporated in 1900. Formerly known as County National. Bone Creek and Newburg. Name “Auburn” suggested in 1871 by Major Joseph C. Gluck. Mayor: Ronnie A. Hobbs. Population, 97 (2010 Census); elections held Recorder/Clerk: Beverly Cameron. every two years on the first Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next election, Chief of Police: Gary Treadway. June 4, 2013.

Fire Chief: Joe Leake. Mayor: Robert Lowther.

Assistant Fire Chief: Joe Crist. Recorder: Kasha Pritt.

City Attorney: Brian Parsons. Members of Council: Dixie Spenser; Sherry Combs; Brenda Lilly; Etta Spencer; Municipal Judge: Wilbur Toney. Chester Osborne, Jr. Sanitary Board Director: Romie A. Hobbs. ______Sanitary Board: Don Miller; Gary Sturm.

Members of Council: Jeanne Lancaster; Bancroft—Putnam County Holly Tompkins; Ray Slayton; Jimmy Sowder; Dustin McVey. Zip Code 25011

______(Magisterial District: Poca).

Incorporated in 1952. Name derived from an Athens—Mercer County old settler by the name of George Bancroft, who owned and operated a coal mine. Zip Code 24712 Population, 587 (2010 Census); elections held (Magisterial District: Three). every four years on the second Tuesday in June; next election, June 9, 2015. Incorporated in 1906 by the Circuit Court of the county. Named for Athens, Greece, “Seat of Mayor: George Woodrum. Learning”. Formerly known as Concord Church. Recorder-Treasurer: Marie K. Dailey. Location of Concord University. Fire Chief: Leon Harper. Population, 1,048 (2010 Census); elevation, 2,597 feet; volunteer fire department; elections Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 673

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Postmaster: Teresa Humphreys. Population, 1,302 (2010 Census); elevation, 907 feet; volunteer fire department; elections Members of Council: Gary Sigman; Steve held every two years on the first Tuesday in Rhodes; John Hackett; Jim Cochran; Tim June; officials take office July first; next Sigman. election, June 3, 2014.

______Council meetings are first and third Tuesdays. Barboursville—Cabell County Mayor: Roy L. Meeks II. Zip Code 25504 Recorder: Donna Hall. (Magisterial District: Barboursville). Treasurer: Robert Hollandsworth. Originally chartered in 1813, and named for Municipal Judge: James Doyle. James Barbour, Governor of Virginia, 1812-14. Incorporated by an Act of the Legislature, Chief of Police: Arnold Triplett. February 12, 1867. Police Sergeants: Charles Wilson; Matt Population, 3,964 (2010 Census); elevation, Swain. 572 feet; Class III city; volunteer fire department; general elections held every four Fire Chief: Arnold Triplett. years on the first Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next general election, June 2, City Attorneys: J. Scott Tharp; Jared 2015. DeVault.

Active bank: First State Bank. Sanitary Sewer Board: Ray L. Meeks III; John Paul Jones, Engineer; Charlie Waltz. Mayor: Paul L. Turman, Sr. Members of Council: Robert Recorder: Kandy L. Miller. Hollandsworth; Bud Hefflin; Jeff Mullenax; Doug Ice; David Tonkin. Chief of Police: Mike Coffey. ______Fire Chief: Phil Kincaid. City Engineer: Danny Porter. Bayard—Grant County

Public Works Director: Danny Porter. Zip Code 26707

Finance Director: Diana Roy. (Magisterial District: Union).

City Attorney: David R. Tyson. Incorporated March 29, 1893, by Circuit Court, and named in honor of Thomas F. Members of Council: Richard Spencer; Bayard, later United States Senator from Paul Hockenberry; Donnie Plybon; Orman Hall; Delaware (1923-1929). Chris Tatum. Population, 290 (2010 Census); elevation, ______2,375 feet; volunteer fire department; elections held every two years on the second Tuesday in Incorporated by State of Virginia by June; officials take office July first; next Chap. LXXI, Acts of General Assembly, p. election, June 11, 2013. 100. Special Charter by West Virginia Legislature in 1867, Chap. 16, Acts of the Mayor: Steven Durst. Legislature 1867. Charter on file in Recorder’s Office, 721 Central Ave., Recorder: Angela Lambka. Barboursville. ______Clerk: Glenna Durst.

Police Chief: Donnie Knapp. Barrackville—Marion County Members of Council: Vince Culp; Jim Zip Code 26559 Gaither; George Layton; Karen Renn Getz.

(Magisterial District: Fairmont).

Established in 1771, named in honor of an ______early settler, John Barrack. Incorporated January 25, 1968, by County Court. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 674

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Beckley—Raleigh County Sanitation Superintendent: Jeremiah Johnson. Zip Code 25801 Board of Public Works Chairman/Street (Magisterial Districts: II and III). Commissioner: Robert Robinson.

County seat. Originally chartered in 1838, Members of Council: Tom Sopher; Tim and named for John Beckley, who was the first Berry; Ron Booker; Ann Worley; Cedric Clerk of the Congress during the Robertson; Chris Hall; Mike Atterson. administrations of Washington, Adams and Firemen’s Civil Service Commission: Jefferson. Incorporated by an Act of the Steve George; Gil Delrose; Wayne Tucker. Legislature, April 26, 1927. Policemen’s Civil Service Commission: Location of Mountain State University. The Doug Epling; Jim Phillips; J. T. Scott. home of West Virginia’s historical dramas “Honey In the Rock” and “Hatfields & Municipal Planning Commission: Jeff McCoys”. Known as “The City with a Mine of Miller; Chuck Turner; Ryan Snuffer; Manuel its Own” because of its Exhibition Coal Mine. Cartelle; Ann Worley; Mike Akers. Radio Broadcasting stations: WJLS-AM, WBKW-FM, WWNR, WCIR-AM-FM, WAXS-FM Zoning Officer: Robert L. Cannon. and WVPB-FM are located here. Public Broadcasting Station WSWP-TV is on the Board of Zoning Appeals: Brad Wartella; outskirts of Beckley. One daily newspaper with Ronald M. McCollam; Robert File; Ramona Saturday and Sunday editions: The Register- Rist; Jack Riddle. Herald. Served by Colgan Air/U.S. Air Express from Raleigh County Memorial Airport. Sanitary Board: Emmett S. Pugh III, Headquarters of District 29, United Mine Chairman; Wayne Davis; John Sadowski. Workers of America. Beckley-Raleigh County Convention Class II city; population, 17,614 (2010 Center: Gary Sutphin; Andrea Akers, Census); elevation, approximately 2,400 feet; Manager; Rick Snuffer; Bill Wooton; Bill Baker; paid fire department; nonpartisan elections held Pat Reed; Terry Miller; Cedric Robertson. on the second Tuesday in May every four years Human Rights Commission: Nelson and the term of office begins on the first day of Staples IV; Bob Baker; Sandra McCann; Hilda July after each election; next general election, Hoston; Al Smith; Nada Najjar; Linda Ward; May 10, 2016. Mark Kodack; Joyce Hall.

Hospitals: Raleigh General, Beckley Housing Authority: Pete Torrico; Bill Appalachian Regional, Jackie Withrow and Patton; Virginia Jefferson; Eddienia Schoolfield; Veterans Hospital. Public Library. Active banks: William File III, Attorney; Manuel Cartelle, City National Bank, Chase, First Century Bank, Executive Director. United National Bank, Bank of Mount Hope, BB&T, Citizens, MCNB. Industrial loan ______companies: Commercial Credit Plan, Inc., CIT Financial Services. Small loan companies: Beckley Loan Company, Security Finance Beech Bottom—Brooke County Corporation, City Finance Company, Beneficial Zip Code 26030 West Virginia, Inc., Manufacturers Hanover Consumers Services, Public Finance Corp. (Magisterial District: Buffalo).

Mayor: Emmett S. Pugh III. Incorporated in 1953; situated on the Ohio River. So named from the statement by George Chief of Code Enforcement: Robert L. Washington, “Nothing will ever grow in those Cannon. beech bottoms” where beech trees originally Recorder-Treasurer: Gary R. Sutphin. grew in the bottom land.

Secretary of the Council: Linda W. Carr. Population, 523 (2010 Census); elevation, 650 feet; volunteer fire department; elections held Chief of Police: Tim Deems. every four years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next election, Fire Chief: Billie Trump. June 10, 2014.

Housing and Community Development Steel Company provided the Town Building Director: Manuel M. Cartelle. which houses the Recreation Hall, Council Chamber, Police Department and Water Municipal Judge: Darl Poling. Department. City Solicitor: William File III. Mayor: George M. Lewis. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 675

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Vice Mayor: Greg Sheperd. Clerk-Treasurer: Susan Bradley.

Recorder: Linda M. Dowell. Water Commissioner: Donald Harris.

Treasurer: Dena L. Verner. Street Commissioner: Johnny Williams.

Office Manager: Carol Jones. Fire Chief: Phil Hart.

Assistant Office Manager: Glenda Members of Council: Jerry Phillips; Haddon. Richard Cox; William King; Sonny Moore; Max Grove; Marshall Reed; Suzanne Skidmore; Fire Chief: Roger Coulter. Thomas Yocum.

Chief of Police: Dan Casto. ______Patrolmen: Matthew H. Rogerson; Scott Rogerson; Thomas Jarrell. Belle—Kanawha County

City Attorney: Joseph E. Bark III. Zip Code 25015

Members of Council: Becky Uhlly; Bob (Magisterial District: District I). Sadler; Greg Sheperd; Ted Westfall; Linda Clelland. Incorporated September 23, 1958, by the Kanawha County Circuit Court. Water Superintendent: Dale Poling. Population, 1,260 (2010 Census); volunteer Water Board: John R. Niven, Chairman; fire department and emergency ambulance Bob Sadler, Vice Chairman; George M. Lewis; service; elections held every four years on Ted Westfall; Don Hubbard. second Tuesday of June; officials take office Treasurer of Water Department: Dena L. July first; next election, June 10, 2014. Verner. Active bank: Huntington Banks, Belle. Recorder: Carol Jones. Mayor: Glen Chestnut. ______Recorder-Treasurer: Kim Holmes. Belington—Barbour County City Clerk: Dewana McAfee.

Zip Code 26250 Judge: Glen Chestnut

(Magisterial Districts: Barker and Valley). Fire Chief: Chris Fletcher. Chief of Police: Darrick Cox. First settled 1768-70 by Elias Barker whose grant of 1,400 acres, in 1781, comprises the City Attorney: Shuman, McCusky & Slicer. present city area. The community was known for many years as Barker’s Settlement. Present Sanitary Board: Glen Chestnut, Chairman; town received its name from a Jewish Terry Childers, Secretary; Kim Holmes, merchant, John Bealin, who established a store Treasurer; Rick Gregg. near the present eastern city limits, on the Beverly-Fairmont road, about 1855, giving that Members of Council: Bevil Holstein; section of the present town the name of Ronald Surbaugh; Kathy Yates; Kay Asbury; Bealin’s. With industrial development in the Angie Kincaid. late 1880s, the town was named Belington. Land on the east side of Tygart’s Valley River Police Civil Service Commission: Gene was incorporated as Belington, August 22, 1894. Moore; Doyle Asbury; William Croye. Land on west side of the river was incorporated ______Alston, in 1897, and the two corporations joined in 1906 to form the present town. Belmont—Pleasants County Population, 1,921 (2010 Census); elevation, 1,698 feet; volunteer fire department; elections Zip Code 26134 held every two years on the first Tuesday in March; officials take office April first; next (Magisterial District: Grant). election, March 5, 2013. Incorporated April 19, 1946, by Circuit Court. Active bank: Freedom Bank. Named for the beautiful hills surrounding the area. Mayor: Carlton Haller. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 676

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Population, 903 (2010 Census); volunteer fire authorized these gentlemen to hold office until department; municipal water system; municipal successors would be appointed by the first sewer system; elections held every two years on election that was to be held on the first Monday second Tuesday in June; officials take office in April 1853. The city was again incorporated July first; next election, June 11, 2013. on February 25, 1882, with the final incorporation being February 22, 1895, by Acts Mayor: Roberta Kay Larsen. of the West Virginia Legislature.

City Clerk: Delina L. Liller. Thriving businesses of the day were Benwood Manufacturing, 1853; B&O Railroad, 1852; Recorder: Carrie Robinson. Benwood and McMechen Electric Light, Heat Fire Chief: Randy Whitehair. and Power Company, 1897; Benwood Iron Works, 1887; Benwood Southern Street Railway Members of Council: John Beck; John Company, 1893; Benwood Water Company, Fitzpatrick; Jennifer Doty; Shirley Long; Betty 1897; Moundsville, Benwood and Wheeling Smith. Railway Company, 1894; Wheeling Steel & Iron Company, 1892; and Wheeling Steel Works, ______1885.

Class IV city, population, 1,420 (2010 Benwood—Marshall County Census); elevation, 648 feet; volunteer fire department; elections held every two years on Zip Code 26031 the second Tuesday in May; officials take office July first; next election, May 13, 2014. (Magisterial District: Union). Active bank: WesBanco - Benwood Branch. In the course of time, early settlers began to Library: Benwood McMechen Public Library. occupy the vast, fertile lands along the mighty Recreational facility: Benwood City Park offers Ohio River. Small towns began to form. There swimming pool, miniature golf, basketball were no settlers in this part of the valley prior courts, baseball/softball field, picnic shelters to the coming of the Ebenezer Zane family in and playground. Volunteer fire department. 1769. Schools: Saints James and John Grade School. Sometime in 1771, Captain William Mayor: Edward M. Kuca, Jr. McMechen and his wife, Sidney Johnson McMechen, came and settled upon a vast tract City Manager: (Vacancy). of land along the Ohio River where Benwood and McMechen now stand. It was due to their Finance Director: Judy Hunt. son, Benjamin, for whom the town is named. Benjamin inherited several hundred acres of his Recorder/Clerk: Judy Hunt. father’s estate and it was upon this land “Ben’s Woods” that he built his homestead and farm. Water Building Director: (Vacancy).

Reference books indicate that this land was Sanitary Board Director: Don Fragale. once occupied by Shawnee and Delaware Tribes Chief of Police: Frank Longwell. and the Mingo branch of the Iroquois Indians. Fire Chief: Michael J. Smith. Throughout the beginning of the industrial boom, many manufacturing companies and rail Municipal Judge: George Sidiropolis. services began to spring up at an alarming rate. The beginning of midwestern railroad Municipal Court Clerk: Judy Hunt. development reached Benwood in 1852 when the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad finally decided City Attorney: Eric Gordon. to bridge the Ohio at Benwood. Shortly after Public Works Director: Jon Howard. 1882, Benwood began to experience a remarkable change. Industrial development Human Resource Director: (Vacancy). had brought in the largest steel mills. Thousands of workers and their families came Members of Council: Bob Rose; Lawrence to live within this great industrial town of its C. Ferrera III; Lori Longwell; Curt Mele; Jackie time. Olson; John Kazemka; Walter Yates; Chuck Terry. Originally chartered on February 28, 1853, ______and incorporated on March 2, 1853, by Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Trustees of the town were William Copies of charter on file in City McMechen, George Blake, David B. McMechen, Clerk/Treasurer’s Office, 430 Main Street, Dr. Smith Holloway, William H. Powell, Samuel Benwood; Monday through Friday, 9:00 H. Norton and A. Wilson Kelley. The assembly a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 677

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Berkeley Springs— Recorder: Cynthia Hoffman. Morgan County (Bath) Fire Chief: Paul Sideweitz.

Zip Code 25411 Members of Council: Linda Chivers; Patrick Sutherland; Ted Pauls; Helen Moren; (Magisterial District: Bath). Gray Williamson.

County seat. Name of town, Bath; name of ______post office, Berkeley Springs. Established in 1776 under the name of Bath, for Bath, Incorporated 1853 by State of Virginia England, famed for its waters. The post office prior to formation of West Virginia. Acts name Berkeley Springs is a combination of the of Legislature, 1871, Chap. 20, Sections 1 name Norborne Berkeley, Governor of Virginia, to 4. 1768-1770, with the warm medicinal springs found here, now owned by the state, the ______curative value of the waters having been known from time immemorial. Home, for a time, of James Rumsey, an inventor of the steamboat. Bethlehem—Ohio County

Population, 624 (2010 Census); elevation, 612 Zip Code 26003 feet; volunteer fire department; elections held every two years on the second Tuesday in June; (Magisterial District: Ritchie-Bethlehem). officials take office July first; next election, Bethlehem received its charter July 2, 1946. June 11, 2013.

Hospital: Morgan County War Memorial. Class III city; population, 2,499 (2010 Public Library. Active banks: CNB Bank, Inc., Census); volunteer fire department; elections BB&T Bank, City National Bank. held every two years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next Mayor: Susan J. Webster. election, June 11, 2013.

Recorder: James Vincent Kidwell. Mayor: Garrett S. Daniel.

Police Chief: Craig Pearrell. Recorder: Donald A. Junkins.

Municipal Judge: Thomas Panebianco. Clerk: Andrea McDonald.

Municipal Court Clerk: Codi J. Ford. Police Chief: August Bankey.

City Attorney: Richard G. Gay. Fire Chief: Paul F. Walters, Jr.

Chief Water Operator: Terry Largent. Municipal Judge: Thomas E. McIntire. Members of Council: Kenny Easton; Scott Members of Council: Robert E. Henry, Jr.; Merki; Andrew Swaim; Elizabeth Skinner. Kent A. Pascoli; Stephen A. Harasuik; Mark S. ______Saseen; Thomas H. Auten, Jr.; Mark Bauer; Stanley M. Wojcik.

Bethany—Brooke County ______

Zip Code 26032 Beverly—Randolph County (Magisterial District: Buffalo). Zip Code 26253 Originally chartered in 1853 by Act of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of (Magisterial District: Beverly). Virginia and named for the village of Bethany in Palestine. Noted as home of Alexander Originally chartered in 1790 and named for Campbell, founder of the Disciples of Christ Beverly Randolph, mother of Edmund Church. Location of Bethany College. Randolph, Governor of Virginia, 1786-1788. Population, 1,036 (2010 Census); elevation, Formerly known as Edmundton. 932 feet; volunteer fire department; elections held every two years on the second Tuesday in Population, 702 (2010 Census); elevation, June; officials take office July first; next 1,973 feet; volunteer fire department; elections election, June 11, 2013. held every two years on the first Monday in May; officials take office July first; next Mayor: Jay Eisenhauer. election, May 6, 2013. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 678

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Mayor: David T. Harper. officials take office first Tuesday of August; next election, June 4, 2013. Recorder: Barbara Smith. Hospital: Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Town Clerk: Kathy Weese. Public Library. Active banks: First Community Bank, MCNB Bank, First Century Bank; Police Chief: (Vacancy). Industrial loan company; Commercial Credit Fire Chief: Jeff Pritt. Plan.

City Attorney: Earl Maxwell. Mayor: Linda Whalen.

Members of Council: Rod Cooper; Jay City Manager: (Vacancy). Gillespie; Tena Pritt; Connie Pingley; Katherine Financial Director: Claude Crigger. Whittaker. City Clerk: Helen Mitchell. Water Board Director: David T. Harper. Director of Human Resources: Angie Sanitary Board Director: David T. Harper. Foley. ______Chief of Police: Joseph Wilson. Blacksville—Monongalia County Treasurer: (Vacancy).

Zip Code 26521 Fire Chief: (Vacancy).

(Magisterial District: Clay). Police Judges: David Kersey; Kermit Moore. Incorporated in 1897 and named for David Black, founder of the town, which was laid out City Attorney: Brian Cochran. in 1829 on land owned by him. City Engineer: Anthony C. Wagner. Population, 171 (2010 Census); elevation, 957 City-County Health Officer: Dr. Kathleen feet; volunteer fire department; elections held Wides. every four years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next election, Superintendent of Sanitation: Shannon June 9, 2015. Bailey.

Mayor: Bobby Lemley. Board of Directors: Pete Sternloff; Linda Whalen; Deborah Sarver; Dr. Tom Blevins; Recorder: Ann Bragg. Mary Francis Brammer. Fire Chief: Bob Brookover. Firemen’s Civil Service Commission: Members of Council: Eugene Lemley; Tommy Cole; James Turner; Jim Bailey. Randy Tennant; Linda Lemley; Connie Policemen’s Civil Service Commission: Tennant; Plummer Brewer. William E. Aldridge; Tonia Russell; James ______Baylor. ______Bluefield—Mercer County

Zip Code 24701 Charter and copies on file in City Clerk’s Office in Bluefield. 1915 Acts of (Magisterial District: Beaver Pond). West Virginia Legislature, Chap. 9, 1921, April 6; Senate Bill 169; also amendment Incorporated November 20, 1889, by Circuit July 1, 1958. Court. So named because of the luxuriant growth in that section at the time of a species of ______chicory with dark blue flower, and also for the blue grass which grows in such abundance in Bolivar—Jefferson County the county. Location of Bluefield State College. Zip Code 25425 Class II city; population, 10,447 (2010 Census); elevation, 2,558 feet (in front of (Magisterial District: Harpers Ferry). station); paid fire department; elections held every four years on the first Tuesday in June; Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 679

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First established in 1797 on a tract of land officials take office July first; next election, bought from a man by the name of Rutherford, June 11, 2013. by a deed dated February 20, 1797. First known as Mudfort. First incorporated on December 29, Mayor: Lawrence L. Crigger. 1825, by an Act of the General Assembly of the Recorder: Sheila Muncy. Commonwealth of Virginia and named Bolivar in honor of Simon Bolivar, a Venezuelan patriot, Clerk: Joyce Crigger. known as the Liberator of South America, whose monuments stand on the lawns of the Chief of Police: Scotty Hughes. Bolivar/Harpers Ferry Library and the Bank of Charles Town, Harpers Ferry Branch property, Utilities Administrator: Joyce Crigger. as gifts from the Venezuelan Government to the Members of Council: Ruthie Matney; oldest Bolivar in the United States. Randy Osborne; Al Carolla; Bryan Pack; Rick Second incorporation, March 27, 1877, by the Garlic. State of West Virginia. Scene of the surrender of ______Colonel Dixon Miles, September 15, 1862. Home of Governor E. Willis Wilson, whose home still stands. Bramwell—Mercer County

Population, 1,045 (2010 Census); volunteer Zip Code 24715 fire department; elections held every two years on the first Tuesday in June; officials take office (Magisterial District: Rock). July first; next election, June 4, 2013. Incorporated in 1888 by Circuit Court and Mayor: Robert J. Hardy. named for J. H. Bramwell, civil engineer and pioneer in the coal development of that section Recorder: P. Jean Reed. of the state.

Town Administrator: Laura Whittington. Population, 364 (2010 Census); elevation, 2,253 feet; volunteer fire department; Treasurer: Eric Lewis. nonpartisan elections held every two years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office Fire Chief: Steve Wilt. July first; next election, June 11, 2013. Members of Council: John P. Heafer; Paul Council meetings are held at the Town Hall Staubs; David Kardok; Helen Dettmer; Dr. on the second Monday of each month at 7:00 Edmund Stazyk. p.m. ______Mayor: Louise Dawson Stoker.

Incorporated 1825 by State of Virginia Treasurer: George Sitler. prior to formation of West Virginia; 1877 Recorder: Christina Hill. by Circuit Court of Jefferson County. Charter on file in Office of Circuit Court City Clerk: Christina Hill. and County Commission of Jefferson County. Copies on file in Law and Order Fire Chief: W. T. Miller. Book B, p. 9, Circuit Clerk’s office, County Courthouse and Mayor’s office, Bolivar. Chief of Police: Edwin R. Vanover.

______City Attorney: J. W. Barringer. Municipal Judge: Micheal Proffitt. Bradshaw—McDowell County Members of Council: Joe Vinciguerra; Zip Code 24817 Kelly Murphy Eller; W. T. Miller, Jr.; Eric Strain; Dwight Hurley. (Magisterial District: Sandy River). ______Incorporated in December 1979. Named for a man who settled at the mouth of Bradshaw Incorporated 1888 by Circuit Court of Creek in about 1840. His grave overlooks the Mercer County. Charter and copies on file town. in Office of Clerk of Circuit Court, Law Population, 337 (2010 Census); elections held Box 248. every two years on the second Tuesday in June; ______Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 680

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Brandonville—Preston County by North Central WV Airport, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and bus lines. Zip Code 26525 Mayor: James R. Christie. (Magisterial District: Grant). City Manager: A. Kim Haws. Laid out in 1827, but not chartered until 1858 by Commonwealth of Virginia. Named for Assistant City Manager: Jimmy Smith. Colonel Jonathan Brandon, builder of the first Recorder: Mario D. Blount. house in the community on land purchased by him in 1786 from the first settlers in the area City Clerk: Taya L. Trent. who arrived about 1781. Director of Finance: Monica Musgrave. Population, 101 (2010 Census); elevation, 1,809 feet; elections held every two years on the Chief of Police: John Walker. second Tuesday in June; officials take office Fire Chief: Charles Feathers. July first; next election, June 11, 2013. City Engineer: H. Tom Brown. Mayor: Paul Webster. City Attorney: Dean C. Ramsey. Recorder: Tammy K. Webster. Recreation Director: Donald Burton. Members of Council: Lin Siebert; Alan Blankenship; Frances Sines; Vivian Ryan; Librarian: Sharon Saye. Harry Wolfe. Members of Council: Darrell Bowen; ______Melissa S. Matheny; Diana Marra; Robert Greer; John Wilson. Incorporated 1858 by State of Virginia Policemen’s Civil Service Commission: prior to formation of West Virginia. Chris McCarthy; Steve Randolph; Ken Winkie. ______Planning Commission: Oliver Rice; Philip Freeman; Rodney Kidd; Robert Greer; Randy Bridgeport—Harrison County Spellman; Flease Annese; Doug Gray.

Zip Code 26330-1310 Zoning Appeals Board: Sam Spatafore; Joseph Coughlin; Meredith McCarthy; Gene (Magisterial District: Simpson). Larosa; Dustin Vincent.

Originally chartered in 1816. So named Building Commission: Okey Bowers; because of the completion, in 1803, across Walter Barth; Bridget Furbee. Simpson Creek of the first bridge to be built in Harrison County. Home of Benjamin Wilson, Library Board: Alison Deem; Susan distinguished frontiersman, and Joseph Goodwin; H. M. Murray III; Barbara Bean; Johnson, the only Governor of Virginia from Tammy Hefner. West of the Allegheny Mountains. Birthplace of Michael Late Benedum, philanthropist and Sanitary Board: Barry T. Ranson; James R. founder of the Claude Worthington Benedum Christie; Ken Curry. Foundation. ______Class III city; population, 8,149 (2010 Census); elevation, 978 feet; combination Incorporated 1887 by Circuit Court of volunteer and paid fire department; emergency Harrison County. medical technicians and paramedics; elections held every two years on the second Tuesday in ______June; officials take office July first; next election, June 11, 2013. Bruceton Mills—Preston County

Active banks: WesBanco Bank, Inc., Zip Code 26525 Huntington Bankshare, Harrison County Bank, City National Bank, Freedom Bank, Bruceton (Magisterial District: Grant). Bank, JP Morgan Chase Bank, BB&T, MVB Bank. Industrial loan companies: Beneficial Originally chartered in 1853. Named by John West Virginia, Inc., Wells Fargo Financial. M. Hoffman, early settler, for his stepfather, Public Library. Benedum Civic Center. Served George Bruce, who is said to have been a lineal Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 681

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descendant of Robert Bruce, the famous King of Street Commissioner: Jerry Arnold. Scotland. Fire Chief: Mitch Tacy. Population, 85 (2010 Census); elevation, 1,549 feet; volunteer fire department; volunteer City Attorney: David McCauley. ambulance service; elections held every two Municipal Judge: Randall Levine. years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next election, June 11, Members of Council: J. David Thomas; 2013. Ron Pugh; Pamela Cuppari; Scott Preston; John Waltz. Active banks: WesBanco, Clear Mountain Bank. Firemen’s Civil Service Commission: Alex Ross; Terry Mills; Robert Parker. Mayor: Cathy Smith. Policemen’s Civil Service Commission: Recorder: Mary Rae Benson. Jerry Henderson; Michael Sharpolisky; Mary Fire Chief: Randy Spiker. Albaugh.

Members of Council: Freda Smith; Kraig ______Whitehair; C. Laura Dulaney; Myron Livengood; Dale Benson. Incorporated 1852 by State of Virginia prior to formation of West Virginia. ______Charter on file in Mayor’s Office, Buckhannon. Special charter enacted by Incorporated 1853 by State of Virginia West Virginia Legislature, 1933; Chap. 116, prior to formation of West Virginia. Acts of West Virginia Legislature, p. 300. Copies of charter on file in Office of Secretary of State, State of Virginia, ______Richmond, Virginia. Buffalo—Putnam County ______Zip Code 25033 Buckhannon—Upshur County (Magisterial District: Buffalo Union). Zip Code 26201 Originally chartered in 1837. Named for Buffalo (Magisterial District: Buckhannon). Creek, which derived its name from the fact that herds of buffalo roamed this section of the County seat. Established in 1816. Chartered county at one time. by the Virginia Assembly in 1852. Incorporated by Act of the Legislature, March 9, 1933. A new revision and codification of the general Named by the first white settlers for Buck-on- ordinances of the town has been adopted. go-hanon, renowned chief of the Delaware A recreational park has been established Indians during the Border War, whose favorite within the city limits known as the Buffalo hunting grounds were located near the present Community Park, along with a new boat ramp, site of the city. Location of West Virginia library, fire station and senior citizen building. Wesleyan College. Population, 1,236 (2010 Census); elevation, Class III city; population, 5,639 (2010 831 feet; volunteer fire department; elections Census); elevation, 1,433 feet; part-paid and held every two years on the first Tuesday in volunteer fire department; elections held every June; officials take office July first; next two years in conjunction with the state primary election, June 4, 2013. election; officials take office July first; next election, May 13, 2014. Home of Toyota Motor Manufacturing of West Virginia. Historical Square – Academy Hospital: St. Joseph’s. Public library. Active Presbyterian Church; Buffalo United Methodist banks: First Community Buckhannon Bank, Church. Chase Bank, Progressive Bank, Freedom Bank, Premier Bank. Mayor: Gary Tucker.

Mayor: Kenneth T. Davidson. Recorder: Lori Deweese.

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Members of Council: Barbara Reed; Leah Population, 281 (2010 Census); elevation, 680 Higginbotham; Lewis Reedy; Joseph Martin. feet; volunteer fire department; elections held every two years on the first Tuesday in June; ______officials take office July first; next election, June 4, 2013. Burnsville—Braxton County Active bank: Union Bank. Zip Code 26335 Mayor: Gary S. Haugh.

(Magisterial District: Salt Lick). Recorder: Virginia Boings.

Settled in 1798, founded in 1830 by Payton Fire Chief: Darrell Rowley. Byrnes, the Town was known as Lumberport. Incorporated in 1902 by Circuit Clerk and Members of Council: Robert Byrd; Nancy named for Captain John Burns, who operated Ashworth; Carlos Nutter; Ron Allen; Larry the first sawmill in that section of the state and Baker. who established the town in 1866 shortly after the close of the Civil War. ______

Population, 510 (2010 Census); elevation, 764 Camden on Gauley— feet; volunteer fire department; recreational Webster County facilities, with lodging; lighted tennis courts and basketball courts; All West Virginia City, 1976; Zip Code 26208 public library. (Magisterial District: Southern). Elections held every two years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; Incorporated in 1904 and named for the late next election, June 11, 2013. Johnson N. Camden, United States Senator from West Virginia, 1881-1887, 1893-1895. Mayor: Paul Bragg. Population, 169 (2010 Census); elevation, Recorder: Marsha E. Dean. 2,034 feet; elections held every two years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office Town Clerk: Pamela Wine. July first; next election, June 11, 2013. Chief of Police: Jim Ball. Mayor: Lisa Prather. Fire Chief: Kenneth Summers. Recorder: Edna Martin. Members of Council: Chris Dean; Gary Members of Council: Cecil Fletcher; Dan Crutchfield; Melissa Conrad; Ann Mattson; Seabolt; Roy Garvin; (Vacancies). Duane Mattson. Water Board: Tonya Short; David Martin; ______Doyal Williams; Sharon Hanna; Lisa Prather. Cairo—Ritchie County Sanitation Board: Lisa Prather; David Martin; Doyal Williams. Zip Code 26337 ______(Magisterial District: Grant).

Incorporated October 22, 1895, by Circuit Cameron—Marshall County Court. Named by devout Scotch Presbyterians, Zip Code 26033 first settlers, after the city by that name in Egypt, because there they found water and (Magisterial District: Cameron). fertile ground for their crops. Originally incorporated in 1861, and This small historic oil and gas town lies along incorporated by the Circuit Court in 1879; the banks of North Fork Hughes River in named for Samuel Cameron, right-of-way agent Ritchie County. North Bend State Park is for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company nearby with the newly developed North Bend prior to the construction of the railroad into Rail to Trail for hikers, bikers and horseback that community. riding. Deer and turkey hunting is superb. Population, 946 (2010 Census); elevation, 1,048 feet; volunteer fire department and Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 683

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emergency medical service; elections held every Incorporated January 2, 1990, by Circuit two years on the second Tuesday in May; Court. Combination of three subdivisions, officials take office July first; next election, May Carpenters Addition, Millerdale I and 8, 2012. Millerdale II.

Active bank: BB&T. Population, 977 (2010 Census); elections held every two years on the second Tuesday in June; Mayor: Julie A. Beresford. next election, June 10, 2014.

City Clerk: Cindy Minton. Mayor: Dorrin L. Armentrout.

Chief Water Operator: John Winters. Clerk-Recorder: Rhonda VanMeter.

Chief Sewer Operator: Terry Springer. Police Chief: Mike Miller.

City Attorney: Rosemary Humway- City Attorney: Daniel Staggers. Warmuth. Municipal Judge: Monica Boor. Fire Chief: Brian Marling. Planning and Development: Dorrin Librarian: Lauri Winters. Armentrout.

Members of Council: Rocky Guzek; Wayne Members of Council: Virgil O’Neal; Simmons; Helen McMasters; Tom Hart; Ron Clarence Murray; Mary Jo Hinton; Charles Walker; Jack Hart. Herbaugh; Diane Baker.

______Capon Bridge— Cedar Grove— Hampshire County Kanawha County Zip Code 26711 Zip Code 25039 (Magisterial Districts: Bloomery and (Magisterial District: District I). Capon). Incorporated in 1902. Name derived from the Incorporated in 1902 by Circuit Court: Home fact that at the time the town was established, a Rule. So named because of the construction of large cedar forest was growing at that location. the bridge over Cacapon River at that place, the name of the river being derived from the Indian Site of Fort Kelley and the oldest settlement name (Shawnee), Cape-cape-de-hon, meaning in the Kanawha Valley, dating from 1773. “river of medicine water”. Landmarks located here are Tompkins Home: 1844, and the Old Brick Church: 1853. Population, 355; elections held every four years on the second Tuesday in June; officials Population, 997 (2010 Census); elevation, 620 take office July first; next election, June 11, feet; volunteer fire department; elections held 2013. every four years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next election, Mayor: Stephen Sirbaugh. June 9, 2015. Recorder: Dorinda Strother. Mayor: James B. Hudnall. Treasurer: Penelope Feather. Recorder: Carolyn Greene Bennett. Fire Chief: (Vacancy). Police Judge: James B. Confere. Members of Council: Christopher Strother; Police Chief: (Vacancy). Nathan Spencer; Janet Baker; Robert Toothman; Thomas Hinkle. Fire Chief: Michael Coleman.

______Members of Council: James Blankenship; Kenneth Barton; Clayton Young; Linda Carpendale—Mineral County Saunders; Lawrence Roark.

Zip Code 26753 ______

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Ceredo—Wayne County Members of Council: Jim Billups; Robert Leslie; Dennis Adkins; Steve Diamond; Joe Zip Code 25507 Ratcliff.

(Magisterial District: Ceredo). ______Ceredo was founded in 1857 and incorporated Chapmanville—Logan County in 1866 by an Act of the Legislature. It was named by Eli Thayer, then a member of Zip Code 25508 Congress from Massachusetts, after Ceres, the Greek goddess of grain and harvest, because of (Magisterial District: Guyan). the agricultural opportunities apparently existing there at the time. One of Ceredo's first Incorporated on July 15, 1947, by Circuit settlers was Z.D. Ramsdell who built a two-story Court: Home Rule. First settlers, Ferrells, brick residence in 1857. The house has been Chapmans and Dingesses. restored by the Ceredo Historical Landmarks Population, 1,256 (2010 Census); volunteer Commission and has become a center of Civil fire department; elections held every four years War Era activities. Several other buildings of on the second Tuesday in June; next election, the Civil War period still exist in the town, some June 9, 2015. in excellent condition. An example is the former residence of Dr. J. T. Wharton, a Civil Mayor: Jerry Price, Jr. War surgeon and one of Ceredo’s first physicians, located on First Street East. Recorder: Claude Workman.

The town boasts one of the oldest official Town Clerk: Gail Moore. beautification commissions in the state. Partly due to the efforts of this commission, Ceredo Office Manager: Lana Pritchard. was selected as the winner of the first Chief of Police: George Spangler. Governor’s Award in 1979, as “Outstanding All- West Virginia City”, and has recently been Fire Chief: Tommy Perry, Jr. honored as “Tree City U. S. A.”. In rapid succession, a new garage, a beautiful historical Superintendent Water and Wastewater museum and a magnificent city hall have been Works: Jerry W. Workman. built since 1992. Ceredo is served by air, rail and the interstate highway system, all adjacent. Water/Sewer Clerk: Lana Pritchard.

Population, 1,450 (2010 Census); elevation, Street Department: Steve Savage. 554 feet; volunteer fire department; Historical Sanitation Department: Steve Savage. Society and Museum; Historical Landmarks Commission; elections held every four years on Water and Sewer Board: Mary Turner, the third Saturday in March; officials take office Chairman; Ted Ellis; Cecil Stollings; Gary April first; next election, March 16, 2013. Thompson; Linden Meade.

Active banks: United Bank, BB&T Bank. Library Board Members: Harry Freeman, Chairman; Teresa Meade, Secretary; Nancy Mayor: Otis E. Adkins. Fala, Treasurer; Sally Stollings; Anita Hagerty.

Recorder: Stanley Fink. Library Director: Rebecca Brock.

Clerk: Sarah Felty. First Assistant: Sharon Cyfers.

Deputy Clerk: Phyllis Robertson. Second Assistant: Tommy Artist.

Treasurer: Robert Leslie. Members of Council: Anita Hagerty; James Chief of Police: Anthony E. Poston. Robison; Estel Murray; Michael Collins; Jeremy Farley. Fire Chief: David Caudill. ______Street Commissioner: Dennis Adkins.

Building Inspector: Marvin Jordan. Incorporated by State of Virginia prior to formation of West Virginia. Charter on Municipal Judge: Chris Perry. file in Logan County Courthouse.

Court Clerk: Lynn Salmons. ______Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 685

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Charles Town— Acts of West Virginia Legislature, Reg. Jefferson County Session, 1915, Municipal Charters, p. 526. (Amendment to former Charter). Copies Zip Code 25414 on file in Mayor’s Office and Police Headquarters, Charles Town. (Magisterial District: Charles Town). ______County seat. Celebrated 225th birthday with a Heritage Festival, September 16-18, 2011. Charleston—Kanawha County Originally chartered in 1786 and named for Charles Washington, brother of the first Zip Code 25301 president, who erected here his home, “Happy Retreat”. Scene of trial and execution of John (Magisterial Districts: Districts I, II and Brown, famous abolitionist. Of three treason IV). trials in U. S. history, two were tried in the courthouse here. Home of William L. Wilson, County seat. Originally chartered in 1794 as who, in 1896, while Postmaster General in Charles Town and changed to the present name President Cleveland’s cabinet established in 1819. Named by George Clendenin, one of between Charles Town, Uvilla and Halltown the the earliest settlers, for his father, Charles first rural free delivery service in America. Near Clendenin. Site of Fort Lee, an important here, at “Harewood”, home of Samuel frontier post, 1788-95, and named for General Washington, another brother of George Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee. Home of Washington, Dolly Payne Todd was married to Daniel Boone, 1788-95. State capitol located James Madison, later President of the United here 1870-75, and continuously since 1885. States. Location of State Capitol, Capitol Complex Class III city; population, 5,259 (2010 and Culture Center, the University of Census); elevation, 530 feet; two volunteer fire Charleston and various business schools. Home departments; elections held biannually on the of the Civic Center, Civic Center Coliseum and fourth Thursday in May; officials take office Convention Hall, Municipal Auditorium, within ten days following election; next election, Central Charleston Senior Center, Convention May 23, 2013. and Visitor’s Bureau, Charleston Town Center with connecting Brawley Walkway, Slack Plaza Hospital: Jefferson Memorial. Library: and a Transit Mall, Southridge Shopping Charles Town Library. Active banks: Bank of Center, Shops at Kanawha Clay Center for the Charles Town, City National Bank, Jefferson Arts and Sciences. Home to various cultural Security Bank, BB&T, United Bank. groups. Municipal Parks and Recreation facilities including Cato Park; three major Mayor: Peggy A. Smith. community centers; five outdoor public pools; numerous public tennis courts, play lots and City Manager/Treasurer: Joseph ball fields; and access sites to the Elk and Cosentini. Kanawha rivers for water sports. Charleston Clerk: Kiya Tabb. became a Port of Entry on July 1, 1973. Home of events FestivALL – a June celebration, Chief of Police: Barry Subelsky. Multifest – an August festival, and the Charleston Distance Run, held the Saturday Municipal Court Judges: John Dorsey; before Labor Day. Christopher Luttrell. Two daily, one Saturday and one Sunday Prosecuting Attorney: Braun A. newspaper; five AM, five FM radio stations and Hamstead. five television channels. Served by four Municipal Court Clerk: Jeni Sales. railroads; four national, six state and three interstate highways; bus lines; three major City Attorney: (Vacancy). airlines; eight commercial barge lines and twenty-five motor trucking companies. Members of Council: Sandy S. McDonald; Industrial park located within the city limits. Mark Reinhart; Chet Hines; Wayne Clark; Ann Paonessa; Donald Clendening; Michael Stover; Class I city, Charleston is the largest city in Rich Bringewatt. West Virginia with area of 29.15 square miles, and the most populous with a population of ______51,400 (2010 Census); elevation, 601 feet; paid fire department; elections held every four years; Incorporated 1786 by State of Virginia next general election, May 20, 2015. Mayor will prior to formation of West Virginia. See take office on the third Monday in June. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 686

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Hospitals: Charleston Area Medical Center, Charleston-Kanawha Housing Authority: Inc., General and Memorial Divisions, Women & Mark Taylor, Director; Nora Harris; Katherine Children’s; Eye & Ear Clinic of Charleston, Inc., Dooley; Allen McVey; Tim Morris; Marie Highland and St. Francis, West Virginia Prezioso. University Medical Center, Charleston Division. Human Rights Commission: Joanna Tabit; Library: Kanawha County Public. Carol Hamric; Bruce Severino; Gale Teare; Martha Gale Poore; Marion Delores Johnson; Active banks: Bank One, Huntington Banks Rev. Braxton Broady; DeAnn G. Hill. West Virginia, Fifth Third Bank, National Bank of Commerce, Summit Community Bank, First Urban Renewal Authority: Andrew Bank of Charleston, Inc., BB&T, United Jordon; John M. Wells III; Jack Cavender; National, City National, WesBanco, SunTrust Karen Haddad; Rusty Webb; Lew Tyree; Diane Community Bank. Strong-Treister; Jim Edwards, Director; Joyce Ofsa, Attorney. Loan companies: American General Finance, Wells Fargo Financial, Inc., Beneficial Loans, Civic Center Board: A. Lawrence CitiFinancial, Inc., Americredit Financial, Crimmins, Jr.; Abby Sobonya; Mary Jean Equity One, GE Financial. Davis; David Wallace; Larry Pack; John Cavacini; Paul Nusbaum; Eddie Howard; Kim Mayor: Danny Jones. Burton; Karen Haddad; Andrew B. Jordon; Suzanne Moses Persinger. City Manager: David Molgaard. City Civil Service Commission: Niall City Clerk: James M. Reishman. Paul; John Teare; Mary Jo Brick. Financial Director: Joe Estep. Firemen’s Civil Service Commission: Fire Chief: Charles Overstreet. Matt Jackson; Carl Beaver; Eric Kinder.

Municipal Judge: Ann Charnock. Kanawha-Charleston Health Department: Bobby Reishman; Brenda Isaac; Shannon Clerk of Municipal Court: Richard Heath. Snodgrass; Arthur B. Rubin; Stephen Weber; James Strawn. Parks and Recreation Commission Director: John Charnock. Municipal Beautification Commission: Pauline Lester; Tim Forren; Mary Jane Police Chief: Brent Webster. Vanderwilt; Charles J. Denham; Beth Loflin; Personnel Administration Director: Judy Otis Laury; Barbara McCabe; Marlene Dial; King. Mary Ann McMillion; Lewis Payne; Ann McLaughlin. Director of Public Works: Gary Taylor. Municipal Planning Commission: Gerald City Solicitor: Paul Ellis. Workman; Ruth Elam; Margaret H. Teeter; Jody Connell; Theresa Moore; Aric Margolis; Assistant City Attorneys: Gene Webb, Braxton Broady; Jesse Forbes; Chad Robinson; Senior Assistant; Mardi Carter, Assistant. Jackie Rosencrance; Dean Dawson; Watson Terry; Angela Baker; Mary Jean Davis, Council Treasurer: Vic Grigoraci. Representative; Rod Blackstone, Office of the Members of Council: By Wards: 1st, Bobby Mayor. Haas; 2nd, William Kirk; 3rd, Joe Deneault; Police Civil Service Commission: George 4th, Reverend James Ealy; 5th, Mike Nichols; Henderson, Jr.; Thomas W. Smith; Lew Tyree; 6th, Edward Talkington; 7th, Mike Stajduhar; John Teare, Attorney. 8th, Bob White; 9th, Cubert Smith; 10th, Robert Sheets; 11th, Marc R. Weintraub; 12th, Sanitary Board: Danny Jones; John H. Shannon Snodgrass; 13th, Susie Kortz Tinney, Sr.; John Michael Johnson, Sr.; Larry Salisbury; 14th, Jack E. Harrison; 15th, Roller, Manager. Courtney Persinger; 16th, Samuel Minardi; 17th, Bobby Reishman; 18th, John H. Miller; (Other boards and commissions: East End 19th, Rick Burka; 20th, Brent Burton; 21st, Associations; Charleston Landmarks Mike Clowser, At-Large: Mary Jean Davis; J. Commission; Charleston Housing Commission; Thomas Lane; Andy Richardson; Chris Doddrill; Kanawha Valley Regional Transportation Jerry Ware; Kasey Russell. Authority; Parking Facilities Committee; Parks and Recreation Commission; Streetscape Commission; Tree Board; Architectural Review Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 687

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Committee; Board of Examiners and Appeals of Class III city; population, 2,585 (2010 the Building Code; Plumbing Board; Heating Census); elevation, 704 feet; volunteer fire Board; Board of Zoning Appeals; Charleston department; nonpartisan elections held every Building Commission.) four years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next election, ______June 10, 2014.

Chesapeake—Kanawha County Lynn Murray Memorial Library located in Chester. County non-daily newspaper and East Zip Code 25315 Liverpool, Ohio, daily newspaper cover the area.

(Magisterial District: District I). Banks: Huntington, Hancock County Savings Bank, Steelworks-Community Federal Credit Incorporated November 1, 1948. Named for Union, Northern Hancock Bank & Trust. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway which has served the community since 1873. Situated on the Mayor: Kenneth Morris. Kanawha River. City Clerk: Sandi Parkins.

Population, 1,554 (2010 Census); Class IV Assistant City Clerk: Nancy Woods. town; elections held every four years on the second Tuesday in June; next election, June 9, Chief of Police: Kenneth Thorn. 2015. Police Officers: James Bryan; Pete Bowen; Mayor: Damron B. Bradshaw. Dante DiJirolanio; Rebecca Haught; Garrett Barnhart. Recorder: Greg Hendricks. Street Commissioner: Steve Shuman. City Clerk: Clara Sue Hatfield. Fire Chief: John Hissam. City Attorney: Robin R. Louderback. City Attorney: April Manypenny Raines. Chief of Police: Jack W. Ice. Water Works Superintendent: Chris Fire Chief: Steven W. Johnson. Allen.

Members of Council: Delano L. Cox; Roy P. Municipal Water Works Clerk: Sherri Kennedy; Maxine G. Akers; Mildred L. Grooms; Bowman. Ivan P. Smith; Janet L. Searls. City Judge: Curtis Parkins. Councilman-at-Large: Roger L. Green. Members of Council: Mike Dotson; Dennis Sanitary Board: Damron B. Bradshaw, Murray; Brian Handley; Steve Shuman; John Chairman; Thomas Gray; Jack B. Lavender. Woodruff.

Municipal Police Judge: Damron B. Water Board: Ken Morris, Chairman; Gary Bradshaw. Stevens; Russell Smith; Brian Handley; Steve ______Shuman; Ron Miller; Mike Dotson. Civil Service Commission: John Hissam; Incorporated 1948 by Circuit Court of Steve Kourpas; Greg Van Dorn. Kanawha County. Charter on file at Kanawha County Court House. City Code City Park Board: Don Hyatt; Donnie is in Recorder’s Office. Murray; Brian Wright; Stephanie Murray, Treasurer; Dennis Murray, Secretary. ______Chester—Hancock County Clarksburg—Harrison County Zip Code 26034 Zip Code 26301 (Magisterial District: Grant). (Magisterial Districts: Clark and Coal). Established in 1896, but not incorporated County seat. Located at junction of U.S. until 1907. Named by J. C. McDonald, an Routes 50 and 19. Originally chartered in 1785 original planner of the town. and named for George Rogers Clark, noted Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 688

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Virginia soldier. Birthplace of General Thomas Howe; Dr. George Shehl; Chad Bundy, J. (Stonewall) Jackson. Executive Director.

Now operating under a charter of the City of Planning and Zoning Commission: C. Clarksburg, adopted at a special election held David McMunn; Autrice Thomas; J. Patrick on February 14, 1957, establishing a Council- Shaffer; Tim Wells; Dortha Parsons; Bryan Manager form of municipal government. Payne; Cheryl Mehaulic; Martin Howe; Christopher Meighen; John Halterman; Mary Radio and television broadcasting stations: Mayer. WBOY-TV, WPDX, WKKW, WOBG, WVHF and WAJR, WAJR-FM, WDTV, FOX 46. Sanitary Board: Joseph Spatafore, Jr.; Mark Linville; Woody Thrasher; Greg Morgan, Class II city; population, 16,578 (2010 Attorney. Census); elevation, 1,007 feet; elections held every two years on the first Tuesday in June; Street Superintendent: Anthony Bellotte. officials take office July first; next election, June 4, 2013. Director of Public Works: MSES Consultants. Served by Benedum Airport, the main line of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and bus lines. Firemen’s Civil Service Commission: There is one daily newspaper, the Exponent Monte Miller; Jeffrey Way; Charles Walsh. Telegram. Housing Authority: Willie Owens; William Hospitals: Clarksburg Veterans J. Rota; Marcel C. Malfregeot, Jr.; LuAnne Administration Hospital. Public Library. Active Bush; Sam Caputo; Jada Carroll. banks: BB&T Bank, Chase, Huntington Banks Police Civil Service Commission: Roger of West Virginia, WesBanco, City National, Diaz; Gary Keith; Arch Benninger. West Union Bank. Loan Associations: Norwest Financial, Security Pacific Financial, Associates ______Financial Services, Citi Financial.

Mayor: Patsy Trecost II. Clay—Clay County

Vice Mayor: Catherine Goings. Zip Code 25043

Members of Council: James C. Hunt; Sam (Magisterial District: Henry). Lopez; Margaret A. Bailey; Mary Mayer; Gary County seat. Incorporated in 1895 by Circuit R. Bowden. Court. Name derived from Clay County, which Clerk: Annette M. Wright. was named for Henry Clay. Formerly known as Henry and as Clay Court House. City Manager: Martin Howe. Population, 491 (2010 Census); elevation, 708 Director of Finance: Frank Ferrari. feet; elections held every four years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office Chief of Police: Marshall Goff. July first; next election, June 9, 2015. Election Fire Chief: Rick Scott. of officers on nonpartisan ticket.

Police Judge: John Martin. Active bank: Clay County Bank.

City Attorney: Greg Morgan. Mayor: Ryan Clifton.

Water Board: Richard Welch, General City Clerk: Felicia Coger. Manager; Jack Keeley; Albert Cox; Gary Recorder: Dwana Murphy. Hamrick. Fire Chief: Mike Scott. Board of Park Commissioners: Michael Shaffer; John Angiulli; Mark Audia; James Police Chief: Miles Slack. Larry; Kelley Davisson. Water Superintendent: Drema Thomas. City-County Health Officer: Dr. Nancy Joseph. Members of Council: Joyce Gibson; Danese Holcomb; Jerry P. Helms; Joshua Shamblin; Board of Health: Jim Scudere; Joyce Cody Nicholas. Rabanal; James Jarrett; Ron Watson; Martin Sewer Superintendent: Jeff Hamilton. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 689

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Street Superintendent: Darrell Keener. Municipal Judge: Robert Hobbs.

______Members of Council: Bernard Mike Stout; John Shelton, Jr.; Darris Holcomb; Ronald Deel; Clearview—Ohio County Sidney Oliver. ______Zip Code 26003-6728

(Magisterial Districts: Richland and Charter and copies on file in circuit Country). clerk’s office, Charleston, Kanawha County. Incorporated November 10, 1953. So named by reason of its situation on a hill top. ______

Population, 565 (2010 Census); elevation, 1,140 feet; volunteer fire department; elections Cowen—Webster County held every four years on the second Tuesday in Zip Code 26206 May; officials take office July first; next election, May 13, 2014. (Magisterial District: Glade).

Mayor: Charles J. Reinacher. Incorporated August 2, 1899, and named for John F. Cowen, director, and one of the principal Recorder: Cathy Medovic. stockholders in the West Virginia and Clerk: Ruby Cupp. Pittsburgh Railway Company, which was later absorbed by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Treasurer: Shawn P. Reinacher. Company.

Fire Chief: Shawn Reinacher. Population, 541 (2010 Census); elevation, 2,244 feet; volunteer fire department with unit Police Chief: Roger Bise. at nearby Camden on Gauley, three pumpers in Cowen and two emergency vehicles; elections Members of Council: Charles J. Reinacher; held every two years on the second Tuesday in Cathy Medovic; Shawn Reinacher; Jeff Doyle; June; officials take office July first; next Andrew Huggins; Beverly West. election, June 11, 2013. ______Home of the Annual Railroad Festival, the last week of July. Clendenin—Kanawha County The town has two surrounding lakes: B & O Zip Code 25045 Lake and Big Ditch Lake, suitable for fishing.

(Magisterial District: District 6B). Mayor: Tammy Crue-Hawkins.

Incorporated in 1904 and named for the Recorder: Karen Bell. Clendenins, pioneer citizens of the Kanawha Valley. Police Chief: L. Allen Cogar.

Population, 1,227 (2010 Census); elevation, Municipal Judge: William McCourt. 621 feet; volunteer fire department; elections City Attorney: (Vacancy). held every two years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next Members of Council: Claudia Given; Mary election, June 11, 2013. Miller; Eulajean Gross; Carl Bean, Jr.; Tabatha Williams. Active banks: JP Morgan Chase Bank, The Poca Valley Bank, Inc., Clendenin Branch. ______Mayor: Robert C. Ore. Danville—Boone County Recorder: David Ross. Zip Code 25053 Clerk: Jamea Giordano. (Magisterial District: Scott). Treasurer: (Vacancy). Incorporated in 1911 by Circuit Court and City Attorney: (Vacancy). named for Dan Rock, the first postmaster. Formerly known as Newport and Red House. Fire Chief: Kevin Clendenin. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 690

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Population, 691 (2010 Census); elevation, 674 Davy—McDowell County feet; volunteer fire department; elections held Zip Code 24828 every four years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next election, (Magisterial District: Brown’s Creek). June 11, 2013. Incorporated in 1948. Residential town in a Active banks: BB&T, United National Bank. coal mining district on the main line of the Norfolk Southern Railway. Leading industries: Railroad shops, natural gas, lumber and services. Population, 420 (2010 Census); volunteer fire department; elections held every four years on Mayor: Mark A. McClure. the second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next election, June 11, 2013. City Manager: Joshua Barker. Mayor: Kenneth M. Gentry. Recorder: James A. Hensley. Recorder-Clerk: Laverne Walker. Clerk: Jacqueline Aleshire. Chief of Police: Patrick McKinney. Finance Director: Jacqueline Aleshire. Fire Chief: Roger Cox. Fire Chief: John Holstein. Assistant Fire Chief: Terry O’Neal. Police Chief: Phillip Boehm. Municipal Judge: Richard VanDyke. Members of Council: Rex Burton; Fred Byrnside; George Chafin; Ronald Nelson; Tony Public Works Director: Guy Wyatt. Hensley. Members of Council: Charles Cornwell; ______Jane Gentry; Mary Lou Sizemore; Roger Cox; Bob McGovern. Charter and copies on file in Boone ______County Circuit Court.

______Incorporated 1949 by Circuit Court of McDowell County. Copies of charter on Davis—Tucker County file in Office of McDowell County Court.

Zip Code 26260 ______

(Magisterial District: Davis). Delbarton—Mingo County Incorporated in 1889 and named for the Zip Code 25670 family of Henry Gassaway Davis, United States Senator from West Virginia, 1871-1883. Highest (Magisterial District: Lee). municipality in the state; elevation, 3,101 feet. Incorporated September 6, 1946, by Circuit Population, 660 (2010 Census); volunteer fire Court, and named Delbarton in honor of one of department; elections held every two years on the officials of The United Thacker Land the second Tuesday in June; officials take office Company. Located in the heart of the richest July first; next election, June 11, 2013. coal area of the state.

Active bank: Grant County Bank. Population, 579 (2010 Census); elevation, 585 Mayor: F. Joe Drenning. feet; volunteer fire department; elections held every four years on the second Tuesday in June; Recorder: Rex A. Liller. officials take office July first; next election, June 9, 2015. Town Clerk: Jennie Helmick. Mayor: John W. Preece. Fire Chief: Patrick Arnold. Recorder: Kimberly Totten. Council Members: Roland Gravelle; Phil Ferguson; G. Scott Hinkle; Adrea Hedrick. City Manager: Joe Crum.

Water Clerk: Sherri L. Helmick. Clerk: (Vacancy).

______Police Chief: Stephen R. Hughes. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 691

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Fire Chief: Robert Hunt. Incorporated in 1906 by Circuit Court and named by the late John T. McGraw for Charles Municipal Judge: John Preece. R. Durbin, Sr., formerly of Morgantown, but at that time prominent in banking circles at Members of Council: Clifford Davis; Mark Grafton. Sizemore; Joe Crum; Jeremy Davis; Albert Totten. Population, estimated 293 (2010 Census); volunteer fire department; elections held every ______two years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next election, Dunbar—Kanawha County June 11, 2013.

Zip Code 25064 Mayor: Donald Peck.

(Magisterial District: District IV). Recorder: Pat Adams.

Incorporated April 19, 1921, by an Act of the Treasurer: (Vacancy). Legislature, and named for the late Dunbar Baines, prominent Charleston banker and City Attorney: (Vacancy). lawyer. Fire Chief: (Vacancy).

Class III city; population, 7,907 (2010 Municipal Judge: Kenneth Varner. Census); paid and call fire department; elections held every four years on the first Tuesday in Members of Council: Veronica Lane; June; officials take office July first; next Emma Grace Nottingham; Kenneth Lehman; election, June 4, 2013. Donald Jennings; Gloria Ransom.

Active banks: United, WesBanco, City ______National. Charter apparently filed at Circuit Mayor: Jack Yeager. Court in Marlinton in 1906 per minute Clerk: Ross Harrison. book of Town of Durbin. Copies filed with Circuit Court, Marlinton. Chief of Police: Earl Whittington. ______Fire Chief: Greg Giles.

City Attorney: Matt Bowles. East Bank—Kanawha County

Director of Public Works: Terry Greenlee. Zip Code 25067

Sanitary Board Director: Ron Byrnside. (Magisterial District: District I). Incorporated in 1889. So named because of Municipal Judge: Brian Lanham. its location east of Coalburg and the “bank” Members of Council: Rick Fields; Mike referring to the old terminology for a coal mine. Formerly known as Hampton and Pryor. Scipio; Bill Dunlap; Harold Craigo; Tom Bailey; Connie Thompson; Everett Sullivan; Gail Population, 959 (2010 Census); volunteer fire Harper. department; elections held every four years on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in Fire Civil Service Commission: Doug June; officials take office July first; next Fleshman, Chairman; Darren Johnson; Michael election, June 2, 2015. Moyers. Mayor: Charles A. Blair II. Police Civil Service Commission: Fred McPherson, Chairman; Terry Coleman; Christy Recorder: William Thompson. McGinnis. Clerk: Donna Johnson. ______Chief of Police: Jess Inclenrock. Durbin—Pocahontas County City Attorney: John Mitchell, Sr. Fire Chief: Bobby Shanklin. Zip Code 26264 Municipal Judge: Charles A. Blair II. (Magisterial District: Durbin). Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 692

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Members of Council: Ruth Sprigg; Gene Population, 823 (2010 Census); elevation, 646 Webb; Martin Copley; Lucratia Sealise; Lynn feet; volunteer fire department; elections held Dillion. every two years on the second Tuesday in May; officials take office within 10 days of election; ______next election, May 13, 2014.

Active bank: WesBanco of Elizabeth. Incorporated in 1889 by special charter enacted by West Virginia Legislature prior Mayor: Penny McVay. to 1936. Charter and copies on file in Mayor’s Office, Town Hall. Clerk: Brenda Evans.

______Fire Chief: Bryon Garrett. Members of Council: Carl George; Judy Eleanor—Putnam County Matheny; Lisa Cooper; Russell Cline; Sherry Smith; Bobbi Moore. Zip Code 25070 ______(Magisterial District: Union).

Incorporated March 11, 1966, by the County Elk Garden—Mineral County Court of Putnam County. Named for Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the former President of the Zip Code 26717 United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt. (Magisterial District: Elk). Site of first Vocational Technical Center in Incorporated in 1890 by Circuit Court. So West Virginia. named because of the traditional location there Population, 1,518 (2010 Census); volunteer of an elk lick. fire department; elections held every two years Population, 232 (2010 Census); elevation, on the second Tuesday in June; officials take 2,300 feet; elections held every two years on the office July first; next election, June 10, 2014. second Tuesday in June, on odd numbered Active banks: City National Bank, Peoples years; officials take office July first; next Federal Credit Union. election, June 11, 2013.

Mayor: Walter F. Halstead. Mayor: Bob Swink.

Recorder: Lynda Casto. Recorder: Barbara Clemons.

Chief of Police: Joe Crawford. Finance Director: Ron Shillingburg.

Fire Chief: Shane Jividen. Fire Chief: Walt Ward.

City Clerk: Peggy Porter. Members of Council: Byron Mayberry; David Tichnell; Michael Burdock; Buddy City Attorney: Lisa Moye. Stonebraker; Tom Braithwaite.

Municipal Judge: Herb Richardson. ______

Court Clerk: Robin Smith. Charter on file at Mineral County Courthouse, Keyser. Copies on file at City Members of Council: Eric Blakenship; Hall, Elk Garden, and County Courthouse. Jack McLane; Kevin Childers; Kim Clendenin; David Lewis. ______Elkins—Randolph County

Elizabeth—Wirt County Zip Code 26241

Zip Code 26143 (Magisterial District: Elkins).

(Magisterial District: Elizabeth). County seat. Incorporated in 1890, and named for Stephen B. Elkins, United States County seat. Originally chartered in 1822, and named for Elizabeth (Woodyard) Senator from West Virginia, 1895-1911. Became Beauchamp, wife of David Beauchamp, county seat in 1898. Location of Davis and prominent early settler. Elkins College, Elkins YMCA, and historic Halliehurst and Graceland mansions. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 693

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Class III city; population, 7,094 (2010 Parkersburg. The Rail Trail, complete with Census); elevation, 1,930 feet; paid and tunnels, is a hiking, biking and horse riding volunteer fire department; elections held every trail through scenic West Virginia. two years on the first Tuesday in March; officials take office April first; next election, Ellenboro is also the home of the new multi- March 5, 2013. million dollar Ritchie County High School and Middle School as well as the Ellenboro Grade Hospital: Davis Memorial. Public library. School. The Old “Washington Inn”, a yellow Active banks: Davis Trust Company, Citizens brick mansion that once boasted the largest Bank of West Virginia, Huntington Bank, swimming pool in the state. The town has a Mountain Valley Bank, Freedom Bank. new post office and volunteer fire department.

Mayor: Dr. Duke Talbott. The “Town of Glass” has two glass businesses: a marble producer, and a large glass Clerk: Sutton R. Stokes. decorating studio and a shop that produces art glass. City Treasurer: Lisa D. Daniels-Smith, CPA. Mayor: Steve Lewis. Captain of Police: Captain H. R. White, Jr. Recorder: Sue Britton. Fire Chief: Tom Meader. Clerk: Bill Hinton. City Attorney: Geraldine Roberts. City Attorney: (Vacancy.) City Health Officer: Dr. Mary Boyd. Fire Chief: (Vacancy). Elkins, Randolph County Civil Defense Director: Marvin O. Hill. Members of Council: Steve Kigins; M. Williams; Chris Kiggins; Robert Barnes; Terry Members of Council: James Bibey; Nanci McDonald. Bross-Fregonara; Van Broughton; Marilynn Cuonzo; Thomas Hensil; Charles Kinnison; ______Carmen Metheny; Joseph Sabatino; Mark Scott; Robert Woolwine. Fairmont—Marion County Policemen’s Civil Service Commission: George Worden; Gary Painter; Kenny Sexton. Zip Code 26554

Fireman’s Civil Service Commission: (Magisterial Districts: Fairmont, Union, John Aliveto; Scott Karlen; William Johnson. Grant and Winfield).

Sanitary Board: Dr. Duke Talbott, County seat. Established in 1820 as Chairman; Randall Biller; Dr. James VanGundy. Middletown, then in Monongalia County. Chartered by the Virginia Assembly in 1843 as ______Fairmont, a contraction of Fair Mountain, first considered as the name for the new town. Home of Francis H. Pierpont, War Governor of Ellenboro—Ritchie County Virginia under the Restored Government, whose body is buried in a cemetery in this city. Zip Code 26346 Location of Fairmont State University and Fairmont State Community and Technical (Magisterial District: Clay). College, White Collar Crime Institute, West Virginia High Technology Foundation, and Incorporated in 1903 and named in honor of Institute for Scientific Research. Ellen Mariah Williamson, first postmistress, daughter of John Williamson, early settler. Monongahela and Tygart Valley rivers are Formerly known as Shumley. Lamberton available for water sport; one daily annexed into Ellenboro Corporation, May 9, newspaper, two AM and four FM stereo radio 1989. stations. Served by one railroad; two national, one state and one interstate Population, 363 (2010 Census); elevation, 784 highway; bus lines, private airport and feet; elections held every two years on the charter air service, commercial barge lines, second Tuesday in June; officials take office five motor trucking companies. Industrial July first; next election, June 11, 2013. park located near city limits; high tech campus in city limits. Ellenboro is situated on the North Bend Rail Trail, a 60-mile corridor of the former B & O Class II city; population, 18,704 (2010 Railroad line between Clarksburg and Census); elevation, 883 feet; paid fire Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 694

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department; Council-Manager form of Utility Manager: David Sago. government; elections held every two years on the first Tuesday in November; next election, Housing Authority: Marcella Yaremchuk; November 4, 2014. George Johnston; Deborah Dooley; Theodore Latusek, Jr.; Rev. Larry Buckland. Hospitals: Fairmont General, Fairmont Emergency and Fairmont Clinic. Public library. Human Rights Commission: (Vacancies). Active banks: Huntington Banks, Wesbanco, Arts and Humanities Commission: Monongahela Valley Bank, First Exchange Rhonda Sanford; Judy Byers; Mandy Steele; Bank, BCBank. Industrial loan company: Faith Bowyer; Mary Reed; John O’Conner; Fairmont Federal Credit Union. Charlotte Meade; Linda Turchin; Kathy Dunn; Mayor: William Burdick. Sue Montgomery; Jack Hussey.

City Manager: Jay Rogers. ______Clerk: Janet Keller. Fairview—Marion County

Finance Director: Eileen Layman. Zip Code 26570

Chief of Police: Kelley Moran. (Magisterial District: Paw Paw).

Fire Chief: James Emerick. Incorporated in 1891. Name derived from an inn operated there by William Basnett about City Engineer: (Vacancy). the year 1815, the name being selected by Matilda A. Jones because there was a clear City Attorney: Kevin Sansalone. (fair) view of the surrounding country. Municipal Judge: Anthony Julian. Population, 408 (2010 Census); elevation, 999 Court Clerk: Stacey Knotts. feet; volunteer fire department; elections held every two years on the second Tuesday in June; Planning and Development: Kathy officials take office July first; next election, Wyrosdick. June 11, 2013.

Public Works Director: Ron Miller. Bank: First Exchange.

Sanitation Board Director: David Sago. Mayor: Arley L. Simmons.

Water Board Director: David Sago. Recorder: Heather R. Tuttle.

Human Resources Director: (Vacancy). Chief of Police: Earnest C. Triplett.

Members of Council: Robert Gribben; Fire Chief: Steven Gillespie. Daniel Weber; Robert Sapp; Deborah Seifrit; Chuck Warner; Robin Smith; Ronald Straight; Members of Council: David Tuttle; Johnny Robert Garcia. Knotts; James Ammons; Ted Tuttle; David Mercer. Firemen’s Civil Service Commission: Don Moroose; Scott Robertson; William ______Harris. Falling Spring— Policemen’s Civil Service Commission: David Roth; Donald C. Chapman; Susan Riffle. Greenbrier County

Public Works Director: Joseph Feltz. Zip Code 24966

City Attorney: Kevin Sansalone. (Magisterial District: Falling Spring).

Police Judge: Anthony J. Julian. Incorporated in 1906 by Circuit Court. So named by reason of the location of springs Planning Commission: Paul Parker III; having a gentle fall to the Greenbrier River. James Nichols; William Oliver; Michael Foy; Joe Feltz; John Pitman; Ronald Straight; Robert Population, 211 (2010 Census); elections held Garcia; James Wharton. every four years on the second Tuesday in June; Board of Zoning Appeals: James Williams; officials take office July first; next election, Michael Burkovich; Richard Wood; Kevin June 11, 2013. McClung; Ray Friend. Mayor: Patrick Roberts. Sanitary Sewer Board: J. Peale Davidson; Recorder: Telia Harvey. Jay Rogers; Tom Mainella. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 695

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Members of Council: Melinda Workman; Its citizens are served by numerous modern Teresa Fields; Twyla Diehl; Lee Kidd. stores, fine new churches, a 3,000-seat county Memorial Auditorium, nearby swimming pools, ______recreation camps, golf courses and restaurants.

Fayetteville is a small, but growing town with Charter on file at County Courthouse, a population of 2,892 (2010 Census) residents. Lewisburg. Copies on file with During the Civil War in 1863, the “first” Corporation of Falling Spring. Entered in indirect firing method of artillery was Law Order Book No. 16, p. 137, Lewisburg. documented. Fayetteville is also located at the ______New River Gorge National Park; Home of the New River Gorge Bridge the longest steel arch bridge, and “Bridge Day”, one of West Virginia’s Farmington—Marion County biggest one day tourist event that has an Zip Code 26571 attendance of over 200,000 people from all around the world. (Magisterial District: Lincoln). Fayetteville is only a short distance from the Incorporated in 1896 by Circuit Court. new interstate highways. The New River Gorge Formerly known as Willeyville, Willeytown and Bridge, the world's longest steel arch bridge, on Underwood. Called Farmington because at the Appalachian Highway Corridor “L” is located time the name was chosen the population here. consisted principally of those engaged in farming. Fayetteville has been recognized nationally as one of America’s “coolest small towns” and a Population, 375 (2010 Census); elevation, 951 top 50 “adventure towns” in America. The park feet; volunteer fire department; elections held has three unique skate board bowls in Southern every two years on the second Tuesday in June; West Virginia. The City Park has a paved half- officials take office July first; next election, mile Cardiac Fitness Trail, three ballfields, a June 11, 2013. new playground and an amphitheater. The lovely town-owned Huse Memorial Park is Mayor: Donna J. Costello. operated under a perpetual care plan.

Recorder: Cathy Brown. On October 2, 1990, the town of Fayetteville was approved for the National Register of Town Clerks: Cathy Brown; Lynda Grubb. Historic Places. Chief of Police: Arnold Triplett. Library: Fayette County, Branch of Raleigh- Municipal Judge: Joshua Sturm. Fayette Regional Library.

Members of Council: Barrie Sanders, Jr.; Active banks: Fayette County National, Isabelle Roach; Valerie Sanders; Jon Sanders; United National Bank. Stephanie Cummons. Class III city; population, 2,892 (2010 ______Census); elevation, approximately 1,850 feet; elections are held every four years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office Charter on file in Town Hall Building. July first; next election, June 9, 2015.

______Mayor: James F. Akers.

Fayetteville—Fayette County Recorder: Zenda Carte Vance. Finance Director: Kathy Williams. Zip Code 25840 City Manager: Bill Lanham. (Magisterial District: Plateau). Chief of Police: Sam Parsons. The county seat of Fayette County. Originally settled by Abraham Vandal in 1883, the town City Attorney: Larry Harrah. was chartered Fayetteville, named after the famous Lafayette, the French nobleman who Fire Chief: John Vernon. aided the struggling colonists during the Revolution. Municipal Judge: Anthony Salvatore. Court Clerk: Lisa Kesterson. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 696

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Planning and Development: Dennis Public Works Director: Bradley J. Mayle. Hanson. Members of Council: Judy Stewart; Gary Public Works Director: James Akers. Riffle; Robert Blake; Shirley Johnson; James Smith. Municipal Judge: Anthony M. Salvatore. ______Human Resources Director: Brooke Dale.

Members of Council: Sharon Cruikshank; No Charter Dennis Hanson; Hank Seay; Nancy S. McKown; ______Okie Skidmore. ______Follansbee—Brooke County Flatwoods—Braxton County Zip Code 26037 (Magisterial District: Follansbee). Zip Code 26621 Incorporated in 1906 by Circuit Court. Name (Magisterial Districts: Holly and Salt derived from Follansbee Brothers, owners of a Lick). steel mill in that city. Incorporated in 1901. So named because of Class III city; Population, 2,986 (2010 the flat and rolling land upon which the town is Census); elevation, 675 feet; volunteer fire laid out. department; primary elections are held the Population, 277 (2010 Census); elevation, second Tuesday in April; nonpartisan elections 1,071 feet; elections held every four years on the held every two years on the second Tuesday in second Tuesday in June; officials take office June; officials take office July first; next July first; next election, June 11, 2013. election, June 11, 2013.

Mayor: Sue Marple. Active Banks: WesBanco, Parkvale Bank.

Treasurer: Lana Dancy. Mayor: David A. Velegol, Jr.

Recorder: Brenda Naye. City Manager: John A. DeStefano, Jr.

Members of Council: Mary Ann Rogers; City Clerk: David Kurcina. Miranda Kniceley; Allyson Beatty; Kenneth Coombs; Bryon Bukeovsky. Chief of Police: John Schwertfeger.

Municipal Judge: Jonna Windon. Fire Chief: Larry Rea.

Municipal Clerk: Kelly Morrison. City Attorney: Michael E. Gaudio.

Chief of Police: E. D. Cutlip. Court Clerk: David Parker.

______Members of Council: James Miller; Kathy Santoro; Tom Ludewig; Thomas DiBattista; Iris Ferrell; James Andreozzi, Councilman-At- Flemington—Taylor County Large.

Zip Code 26347 ______(Magisterial District: Flemington). Incorporated 1906 by Circuit Court of Incorporated in 1922 by Circuit Court, and Brooke County; 1915 by Special charter named for James Fleming, an early settler, enacted by West Virginia Legislature prior whose former home was in Hampshire County, to 1936. Charter on file in Office of City Virginia. Clerk. No copies on file. Chap. 5, Acts of Population, 312 (2010 Census); elections held Legislature, House Bill 101, Amendment every two years on the second Tuesday in June; House Bill 232, Women’s suffrage, passed officials take office July first; next election, around 1920 or after; Amendment House June 11, 2013. Bill 305, passed March 24, 1925; Amendment House Bill 144, passed Mayor: Bradley J. Mayle. February 13, 1929; Certificates issued by County Court extending corporate limits Recorder: William Blake. dates April 29, 1959, February 15, 1971 Fire Chief: Geoff Marshall. and December 10, 1975. ______Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 697

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Fort Gay—Wayne County City Health Officer: Carmen Rexrode.

Zip Code 25514 Members of Council: Thomas Wimer, Jr.; William Waybright; Genevieve Glover; Bob (Magisterial District: Butler). Horan; Bruce Minor.

Originally chartered in 1875 as Cassville. ______Name changed to Fort Gay in 1932. Name selected because of the location prior to the Friendly—Tyler County Civil War of a fort (Fort Gallup) on a hill at Louisa, Kentucky, opposite this municipality. Zip Code 26146

Population, 705 (2010 Census); elevation, 576 (Magisterial District: Union). feet; elections held every four years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office Incorporated in 1898. Named for Friend July first; next election, June 11, 2013. Cochrane Williamson, grandson of Thomas Williamson, one of the two earliest settlers on Mayor: Rose Devaney. the Ohio River at the site of the present location of the town. Recorder: (Vacancy). Population, 132 (2010 Census); elections held Treasurer: (Vacancy). every two years on the second Tuesday in June; Clerk: Jessica Robertson officials take office July first; next election, June 11, 2013. Police Chief: Chris Hunt. Mayor: Bonnie Hostuttler. Fire Chief: Joe Bowen. Recorder: Susan Stoneking-Webb. Municipal Judge: David Thompson. City Attorney: Luke Furbee. Members of Council: Michael Gilkerson; Gary Mounts; Joetta Hatfield; (Vacancies). Members of Council: Betty Starkey; Sherri Travis; Janice Duff; Yolanda Harlan; Brenda ______Hostuttler.

______Franklin—Pendleton County Zip Code 26807 Gary—McDowell County

(Magisterial District: Franklin). Zip Code 24836

County seat. Originally chartered in 1794, by (Magisterial District: North Elkin). Legislature of Virginia and named for Francis Evick, one of the first settlers. Formerly known Incorporated on July 1, 1971, by popular vote as Frankford. of residents in an election held on March 16, 1970. Incorporation includes five communities: Population, 721 (2010 Census); elevation, Elbert, Filbert, Gary, Thorpe and Wilcoe. 1,731 feet; volunteer fire department; elections held every two years on the second Tuesday in Town named in honor of Judge Gary, one- June; officials take office first Tuesday in July; time president of U. S. Steel Corporation. The next election, June 8, 2014. principal industry is coal mining.

Active banks: Pendleton Community Bank, Class IV town; population, 968 (2010 Summit Community Bank. Census); largest city in McDowell County with 457 acres of land; four post offices; volunteer Mayor: Pamela Waybright. fire department; elections held every four years on the first Tuesday in June; next election, Recorder: Carole Hartman. June 2, 2015.

City Clerk: Charles Franklin Wehrle, Jr. Mayor: Larry Heizer.

Treasurer: (Vacancy). Recorder: Dolores Johnson.

Ex Officio Chief of Police: (Vacancy). Treasurer: Dolores Johnson.

Fire Chief: Bruce Minor. Clerk: Tracy Allison.

City Attorney: Jerry Moore. Chief of Police: Markus Baker. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 698

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Street Commissioner: Robert Little, Sr. Civil War, Gauley Bridge was the key to the entire Kanawha Valley and the critical military Police Judge: Floyd Graham. objective. The town was captured and recaptured three times, during these actions City Attorney: Michael E. Froble. wooden bridges across the mouth of the Gauley Fire Chief: Bobby Rose. were burned twice.

Members of Council: Karen Gauiter; Marie On May 15, 1980, the old K & M Railway Scales; Carla Roope, Judy Davis. Station was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Rehabilitation of the old depot ______began in August 1982 and was completed in time for Governor Rockefeller’s dedication on Gassaway—Braxton County February 14, 1984. The old depot houses Town Hall offices and Council Chambers. Zip Code 26624 Population, 614 (2010 Census); elevation, 680 (Magisterial District: Western). feet; elections held every two years on the second Tuesday in June of odd-numbered years; Incorporated September 15, 1905. Located 2 next election, June 11, 2013. 1/2 miles from Exit 62 of Interstate 79, on State Route 4. Named for Henry Gassaway Davis, a Branch Bank: City National Bank. United States Senator (1871-83) and pioneer coal operator of West Virginia. Mayor: Byron Winebrenner.

Library: Gassaway Public Library. Active Recorder: Andrea Whiteside. banks: Bank of Gassaway, City Branch Bank. Police Chief: H. A. Whipkey.

Class IV town; population, 908 (2010 Fire Chief: Damon Runyon. Census); elevation, 834 feet; volunteer fire department; elections held every two years on City Attorney: Brian Parsons. second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next election, June 11, 2013. Members of Council: Gladys Kauff; John Nicholas; Ruth Neal; Jeremy Whiteside; Mayor: Richard Roach. Dorothy Davilla-Given.

Recorder: Andrea Paletti. ______

Clerk: Cherri L. Wilson. Gilbert—Mingo County Police Chief: Robert A. Brady. Zip Code 25621 Fire Chief: Fred Slaughter. (Magisterial District: Stafford). Members of Council: Jean Wilson; Melinda Frame; Melvin James; Alan Boggs; Joe Incorporated in 1918 and named for Gilbert Smarr. Creek, which derives its name from the name of an early traveler in that section who was killed ______by the Indians.

Population, 450 (2010 Census); elevation, 833 Gauley Bridge—Fayette County feet; volunteer fire department; elections held Zip Code 25085 every four years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next election, (Magisterial District: Valley). June 11, 2013.

Incorporated September 8, 1978. Settled in Mayor: Vivian Livingood. the early 1800’s and known as Kincaid's Ferry prior to 1822, the present name of the town was Recorder: Michael Fox. derived from the wooden covered toll bridge Secretaries: Vivian Smith Carter; Victoria built in that year as part of the James River and Surber. Kanawha Turnpike. Located at the confluence of the New and Gauley rivers, which converge Clerk’s Assistant: (Vacancy). to form the Great Kanawha, picturesque and historic Gauley Bridge overlooks the large, lake- Police Chief: Michael Rasmussen. like pool formed by the falls of the Great Lieutenant: (Vacancy). Kanawha just one mile downstream. During the Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 699

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Fire Chief: Michael Tolley. Class IV town; population, 1,526 (2010 Census); volunteer fire department; elections Water Superintendent: James Deel. held every two years, the second Tuesday in May; officials take office July first; next Wastewater Superintendent: Michael election, May 13, 2014. Preston. Bank: BB&T. Members of Council: Randy Livingood; Sharon Murphy; Todd Westfall; Jennifer Miller; Hospital: Reynolds Memorial. Curt Lester. Mayor: David W. Blazer. ______Recorder: Gerald Trembush.

Glasgow—Kanawha County Clerk: Jane Criswell Rickman.

Zip Code 25086 Chief of Police: Norman Pastorius.

(Magisterial District: District I). Solicitor: Frederick E. Gardner.

Incorporated June 20, 1920. Name derived Fire Chief: Norman Pastorius. from a combination of the word “glass” with the word “company”, a glass factory having been City Attorney: Frederick Gardner. built there many years ago. Municipal Judge: James Gardill. Population, 906 (2010 Census); volunteer fire department; elections held every four years on Planning and Development: Wade Bell. the first Tuesday in June; officials take office Public Works Director: James Byers. July first; next election, June 2, 2015. Sanitary/Water Board Director: Sean Mayor: Charles H. Armstrong. Orlofske. Recorder: Lonnie Carpenter. Members of Council: Larry English; Lewis Treasurer: Larry Simmons. Richmond; John Zinn; Wayne Bero; Elliott Grisell. Civil Defense Director: Marvin Blankenship II. City Clerk: Jane Criswell-Rickman.

Director of Public Works: John Qualls III. ______

Fire Chief: Marvin Blankenship II. Charter on file with Madden and Police Chief: Gary Vaughn, Ranking Officer. Whorton, 635 Court Ave., Moundsville.

Members of Council: Larry Simmons; ______David Persinger; Sheena Totten; Travis Hager; John Qualls III. Glenville—Gilmer County

______Zip Code 26351

(Magisterial District: Glenville). Incorporated June 20, 1920. It has a general charter under Chap. 8 of the State County seat. Charter originally granted in Code. the year 1856. Incorporated February 13, 1871, by an Act of the Legislature. Formerly known as ______Stewart’s Creek and Hartford. Location of Glenville State College. Here was composed the song, “The West Virginia Hills”, words by Mrs. Glen Dale—Marshall County Ellen King, music by H. A. Engle. Host for West Virginia State Folk Festival. Zip Code 26038 Class IV town; population, 1,537; elevation, (Magisterial District: Washington). 734 feet; volunteer fire department; elections held every two years on the second Tuesday in Incorporated in 1924 by Circuit Court. June; officials take office July first; next Named after “Glen Dale”, the name of the election, June 11, 2013. Samuel A. Cockayne farm, upon which the municipality was laid out. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 700

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Active banks: United National Bank, Calhoun Class III city; population, 5,164 (2010 Banks. Census); elevation, 1,000 feet; paid fire department; elections held every two years on Libraries: Robert Kidd Library (GSC); Gilmer the second Tuesday in May; council takes office County Public Library. July first; next election, May 13, 2014.

Mayor: Tashua M. Allman. Hospital: Grafton City.

Recorder: Debbie Starcher-Johnson. Library: Taylor County Public Library.

Treasurer: Anna James. Active banks: First Community Bank, BB&T.

Municipal Judge: Tashua M. Allman. Mayor: G. Thomas Bartlett III.

Chief of Police: John Moss, Jr. Vice Mayor: Robert A. Klepfel.

Fire Chief: Jess McVaney. Members of Council: G. Thomas Bartlett III; Robert A. Klepfel; Jerold P. Isner; Peggy Members of Council: Vonda Pedro Knotts Barney; Brenda K. Thompson. Montgomery; Garry Kight; Dennis T. Fitzpatrick; Kevin Wiant; Tammy Stewart. City Clerk: Larry M. Richman.

______City Manager: Kevin M. Stead.

Finance Director: Larry M. Richman. Incorporated 1871 by special charter enacted by Virginia assembly prior to Chief of Police: Robert W. Beltner. 1936. Copies on file in Mayor’s Office. Fire Chief: John Casey Jones. ______City Attorney: Shawn D. Nines.

Grafton—Taylor County Police Judge: Robert C. Gorey, Jr.

Zip Code 26354 Building Inspector: R. Wayne Beall.

(Magisterial District: Grafton). Code Officer: Glenn H. Bartlett II.

County seat. Originally chartered on March Public Works Director: Gerald T. Weber. 15, 1856, in the Virginia General Assembly, and named in honor of John Grafton, a civil Sewer Department Director: Timothy R. engineer in the employment of Colonel Bosley. Benjamin Latrobe, who laid out the route of the Bluemont Cemetery Director: David G. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in 1852 across what Jones. was then northwestern Virginia. Planning Commission: Carole F. Klepfel; Location of the Andrews Methodist Episcopal John F. McDaniel; Emily S. Bolliger; L. Roger Church (International Mother’s Day Shrine) Fleming II; John Michael Hulley. where the first Mother’s Day was observed on May 10, 1908; birthplace of Anna Jarvis, Historic Landmarks Commission: Nancy founder of Mother’s Day, and the Anna Jarvis Ellen Judy; Ramola J. Lee; Rebecca A. Willis; Home and Museum; the Grafton National David L. Marshall; Kermit B. Bias, Jr. Cemetery and the West Virginia National Cemetery; West Virginia State Supreme Court Housing Authority: Catherine J. Harman; Thomas R. Gillispie; RoseMary Knight; Donald Judge Marmaduke H. Dent, first graduate of Dale Rhodes; (Vacancy). West Virginia University and the first graduate of West Virginia University School of Law, is Fire Civil Service Commission: John W. buried in the Bluemont Municipal Cemetery; Murray; Jeffrey M. Freeze; Robert T. Memorial Day Celebration and Parade since Duckworth. 1867; and monument to Private Thornberry Bailey Brown, first Union soldier killed in a Police Civil Service Commission: Daniel land battle in the Civil War. E. Mankins; John C. Snyder; Rick L. Pisino.

Also site of the Tygart River Reservoir Dam, Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA): Joseph the largest flood control dam east of the W. Reneman; M. Rebecca Thayer; John C. Mississippi River, and the location of Tygart Snyder; Kenneth S. Willis; Jeffrey L. Tansill. Lake State Park. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 701

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Board of Appeals: John F. McDaniel; In October 1992, an 80 MW American Carroll L. Tingler, Jr., Herbert N. Estell; Beryl Bituminous Project's construction was E. Riley, Jr.; Virginia A. Ellis. completed on the edge of Grant Town. In March 1993, it completed commercial operation Hospital Board of Trustees: John L. Bord; performance testing and entered commercial Ronald L. Cole; Nancy Virginia Fowler; Wayne operations the following month. This project F. McDevitt; Paul D. Shroyer; Wanda E. Taylor; will gradually purge its site of over 20 million John E. Whitescarver; Mark T. Witrowski, MD; tons of bituminous coal waste, or gob, left by David Efaw. local coal mining operations. As the project consumes the gob, approximately 1,200 pounds Mother’s Day Shrine Foundation: Marvin per day of acidic coal refuse which used to be D. Gelhausen; Clarence E. Paugh, Jr.; Chad runoff will diminish until it is no longer Proudfoot; Larry M. Richman; Marcia Malone discharged. After combustion, the gob is Slaven; Linda M. Shriver; Katharine Antolini; converted to a harmless ash which is returned Ronald L. Curry; Stuart M. Slaven; Evan W. to the abandoned underground mine or used as Bays; Kimberly D. Mitchell; Peggy Knotts a building material. Barney; Ruth G. Marshall (Honorary); Lorrain Boston (Honorary). Construction was complete in May of 1996 of improvements and enhancements to the Grant ______Town Water Distribution System which serves the Baxter-Grant Town area. Under a grant Incorporated March 15, 1856. It has a obtained from the Small Cities Block Grant general charter under Chapter 8 of the Program, Grant Town obtained $450,000 which State Code. replaced a major portion of the main water line serving the communities of Grant Town and ______Baxter.

Population, 613 (2010 Census); elevation, 930 Grant Town—Marion County feet; elections held every two years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office Zip Code 26574 July first; next election, June 10, 2014. (Magisterial District: Paw Paw). Mayor: Robert Riggs, Jr. The original settlers of the area that is now Recorder: Melanie Thompson. Grant Town were the McCoy, Ballah, Toothman and Hibbs families. Clerk: Tonya Trinajstick.

The town was established in 1901 by the City Attorney: Scott Tharp. Federal Coal and Coke Company, and was named Grant Town for Robert Grant who was Municipal Judge: Robert Riggs, Jr. at that time vice president of the coal company. Chief of Police: Matthew Biggie. The town was incorporated on November 12, 1946, by an order of the Circuit Court. Carl Fire Chief: John Riley. Gedel was the first mayor and the members of Members of Council: Mile Jordan; Mary the first town council were: Hobert Dodd, Fred Ann Kuretza; Bob Tuttle; Jim Muth; Brad Pitman, John Basile, Lawrence Clair, E. G. Shahan. Dennison. The first recorder was Adam Savich. ______The town’s city building was completed in 1949 and houses the mayor’s office and the water department offices. Construction of a Charter and copies on file in Office of large, modern building was completed in April, Recorder, Municipal Building, Grant 1979, housing a fire department–consisting of Town. three modern trucks, a new equipment truck and two emergency cars. ______

Construction was completed in May 1985 for Grantsville—Calhoun County a new, modern community building, located on Ballah Avenue, to be available for all Zip Code 26147 community activities. (Magisterial District: Center). The town completed construction of a new City Park in May 1987, containing basketball County seat. Established in 1865, but not and tennis courts, a jogging track, playground incorporated until 1896. Named in honor of equipment, horseshoe pits and a picnic pavilion. General Ulysses Simpson Grant. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 702

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Population, 561 (2010 Census); elevation, 726 Hambleton—Tucker County feet; volunteer fire department; elections held Zip Code 26269 every two years on the first Tuesday following the first Monday in June; officials take office (Magisterial District: Black Fork). July first; next election, June 4, 2013. Established in 1889, but not incorporated Active bank: Calhoun County Bank. Hospital: until 1905. Named by the then United States Minnie Hamilton Rural Health Care Center. Senator Stephen B. Elkins in honor of a Library: Calhoun County, Branch of Alpha stockholder by this name in the West Virginia Regional Library. Central Railroad Company. Formerly known as Hulings. Mayor: Curtis Gouetson. Population, 232 (2010 Census); elevation, Recorder-Treasurer: (Vacancy). 1,682 feet; elections held every four years on the first Tuesday in June; officials take office July Clerk: Pam Davis. first; next election, June 2, 2015.

Chief of Police: Jeff Starcher. Mayor: Linda S. Bates.

Fire Chief: (Vacancy). City Clerk: Frances Shupp/Benbush Business Service. City Attorney: (Vacancy). Recorder: Michael A. Griffth. Members of Council: Dorothy McCauley; Loretta Stevens; Katheryn Kerby; Erin Members of Council: Larry W. Bates; Barnhart; Andrew Smith. Matthew Phillips; Bernie Phillips; Russell Helmick; Glenn Summerfield. ______Granville—Monongalia County

Zip Code 26534 Hamlin—Lincoln County Zip Code 25523 (Magisterial District: Western). (Magisterial District: Carroll). Incorporated in 1947. Named by Felix Scott, who laid out the town. County seat. Date originally chartered unknown, but thought to be about 1867, the Population, 781 (2010 Census); elevation, 880 only available records having been destroyed by feet; volunteer fire department; elections held fire when the courthouse burned in 1909. every two years on the second Tuesday in June; Named for Leonides Lent Hamline, prominent officials take office July first; next election, Methodist bishop. June 11, 2013. Hometown of Brig. Gen. Charles E. (Chuck) Mayor: Patricia A. Lewis. Yeager, famous test pilot whose statue is located on the lawn of Hamlin High School. Recorder: Michelle L. Boyers. Memorial honoring World War I, World War City Attorney: Michael Solomon. II, Korean and Vietnam veterans located on Fire Chief: Butch Renner. lawn of Lincoln County Courthouse.

Chief of Police: Craig Corkrean. Community Center houses all municipal offices. City Manager: Ron Snyder. Population, 1,142 (2010 Census); elevation, Municipal Judge: Todd Johnson. 643 feet; volunteer fire department; elections held every four years on the second Tuesday in Court Clerk: Jeff Gilchrist. June; officials take office July first; next election, June 10, 2014. Members of Council: Jeremy Sickles; Linda Tomago; Mary Beth Renner; David Active banks: City National Bank (Hamlin Bean; Wilbur England. Branch), Community Trust Bank (Hamlin Branch), Guaranty Bank (Hamlin Branch). ______Hamlin Public Library serves 10,000 area residents. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 703

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Mayor: Chris Wilkinson. Members of Council: Joanna McClure; Mathew Matics; Bill Matics, Jr.; Jeannie Recorder: Elizabeth E. Rexroad. Campbell-Blazic; Jack Hutchinson.

Town Clerk: Jennifer Browning. ______Chief of Police: Chris Wilkinson. Harman—Randolph County

Municipal Court Judge: Phyllis K. Smith. Zip Code 26270

City Attorney: James W. Gabehart. (Magisterial District: Cheat).

Fire Chief: Joe Vinson. Incorporated in 1901 by Circuit Court. Named for Rev. Asa Harman, donor of the site Members of Council: Daniel McKay; Rick of the town, formerly known as Harman Town. Walls; Roy Lambert; Kenneth Lambert; Olive Located in narrow valley between the Allegheny Hager. and Rich Mountains. ______The town lies at the intersection of Route 33, coming from Elkins, and Route 32 going to Incorporated prior to 1890, exact date Canaan Valley and Davis. The Dry Fork River is not known, Courthouse burned 1909. the boundary line on the west side.

______Population, 143 (2010 Census); elevation, 2,400 feet; volunteer fire department; elections Handley—Kanawha County held every two years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next (Magisterial District: Cabin Creek, District election, June 11, 2013. One). Active bank: Grant County Bank-Stockmans Zip Code 25102 Branch.

First established in 1877. Known as Upper Mayor: Jerry D. Teter. Creek until July 29, 1881, when name was changed to Handley for pioneer settlers who Recorder-Treasurer: Patty Teter. farmed the area. Has distinction of bearing a Fire Chief: Jerry D. Teter. name like no other town in the United States. Incorporated November 1972. Members of Council: Ralph Mowery, Sr.; Roger Roy; Vickie Mowery; Linda Teter; Shelby Located in the Upper Kanawha Valley on the Mullenix. south side of the Kanawha River on West Virginia Route 61, along the B & O, C & O ______Railway, Huntington Division. Railroad yards moved here from nearby Montgomery in 1899. Trains and barges hauled coal for the Charter on file in Recorder-Treasurer’s Chesapeake Mining Co. until deposits were Office, Elkins, West Virginia and copies on removed from the town and surrounding hills. file in Office of Recorder for Municipal Council, Harman. Population, 349 (2010 Census); volunteer fire department; police department; two churches; ______elections held every two years on the second Tuesday in June; next election, June 10, 2014. Harpers Ferry—Jefferson County

Mayor: Essie Ford, Jr. Zip Code 25425

Recorder: Deborah Matics. (Magisterial District: Harpers Ferry).

Clerk: Jennifer Strickland. First settled in 1732 by Peter Stephens whose “squatter’s rights” were bought in 1747 by Police Chief: Essie Ford. Robert Harper, for whom the town was named, Fire Chief: Charles Baldwin. and who first operated ferries across the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers at that point. City Attorney: John Mitchell, Jr. Incorporated by Circuit Court in 1872. President George Washington asked Congress Municipal Judge: Russell Kees. in 1794 for an Armory and Arsenal at Harpers Court Clerk: Connie Baldwin. Ferry. Building was commenced in 1796. Departure point for Lewis and Clark Expedition Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 704

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in 1803. Scene of John Brown’s raid in 1859. as a 1997 State and National Blue Ribbon First American meeting of the Niagara School. Movement in August, 1906, at Storer College led by W. E. B. DuBois. Site of Harpers Ferry The town owns an 8 3/4-acre Municipal Park National Historical Park with over 250,000 which has ball fields, a playground, tennis visitors each year. courts, basketball courts and a 10-pit horseshoe court. Another recreational facility is North Lowest point in the state, the elevation being Bend Golf Course, which is only five miles from but 247 feet above sea level at the Potomac accesses to North Bend Rail Trail; lodging River level. facilities include Heritage Inn, Log House at Sweet Trees and North Bend State Park. The Harpers Ferry owns and operates its own North Bend Dam and Lake has a marina and municipal waterworks. The Chesapeake and recreation site at Harrisville which includes a Ohio, Amtrak and MARC trains operate three-field softball/Little League Complex. This through Harpers Ferry, main line and the valley recreation area also hosts the “By the Lake line. Organizations: Lions Club, Masonic Lodge, Antique Engine and Equipment Show” twice a IOOF, Rebekahs and Woman's Club. year.

Population, 286 (2010 Census); police Specialty industries include Troy Mills, department; volunteer fire department; fully- manufacturer of vehicle carpets; and Simonton equipped rescue unit; elections held every two Building Products (windows). Also a business years on the second Tuesday in June; officials and recreation complex which includes a take office July first; next election, June 11, football/soccer field and primary care office 2013. situated on eight acres, along with a refurbished gymnasium. Mayor: Joe Anderson. Population, 1,876 (2010 Census); elevation, Recorder: Kevin Carden. 870 feet; volunteer fire department; elections Clerk: Caitlyn Delashmutt. held every two years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next Treasurer: Kathryn Payne. election, June 11, 2013.

Police Chief: John Brown. Library: Ritchie County, Branch of Alpha Regional Library. Active banks: Union Bank Fire Chief: Donnie Dunn. Harrisville, Huntington National Bank, West Members of Town Council: Dan Riss; Union Bank - Harrisville Office. Charlotte Thompson; Betsy Bainbridge; Jerry Mayor: Alan R. Haught. Hutton; Greg Vaughn. Recorder: Ronda K. White. ______Cashier/Billing Clerk: Audrey Dressler.

Incorporated 1872 by Circuit Court of Police Chief: Mark Lamp. Jefferson County. Certificate of Incorporation on file with Clerk of Circuit Municipal Judge: Alan R. Haught. Court, Jefferson County, Chancery Order Book 2, p. 63. Fire Chief: Dana Nutt.

______Municipal Attorney: Ira M. Haught. Maintenance Superintendent: James Harrisville—Ritchie County Thompson.

Zip Code 26362 Members of Council: Joseph W. Jarrell; Richard D. Kerns; David L. Lamm; Jeffrey L. (Magisterial District: Union). Hardman; Barbara A. Lowther.

County seat. Established in 1822. ______Incorporated in 1869 by Act of the Legislature. Named for Thomas Harris, pioneer. Hartford—Mason County Home of Berdine’s Variety Store, West Virginia's oldest 5 and 10 cent store and Zip Code 25247 General Thomas M. Harris Museum. (Magisterial Districts: Graham and Harrisville Elementary School was recognized Waggener). Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 705

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Located on a portion of land of Colonel summer resort town with a large Victorian Andrew Waggener, who received a patent of hotel, Mt. Clifton, and a smaller Summit House, about 4,000 acres granted to him by King providing summer lodging for guests from George III of England, for his services in the Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland. French and Indian War. The patent was issued in December, 1772. The town was designated as a 1976 “All West Virginia City” by the state Chamber of It was established as a town in 1853, and Commerce, a federal Bicentennial community surveyed and laid out by the County Surveyor, and has been designated by listing on the Thomas Hogg, and the first coal mine opened National Register, U. S. Department of Interior, the same year. The first salt manufactured was as the Hedgesville Historic District. in 1856, by some eastern capitalists from Connecticut, who named the town in honor of The town is a part of the Hedgesville Area Hartford in that state. The same year William Public Service District. Water was made Harpold began operating a saw mill and boat available to the public in February, 1978. yard and began manufacturing salt. Consolidation of the county’s three water districts formed the Berkeley County Public The success of the early business and progress Service Water District in 2001. Berkeley made in building up the town was due to the County Public Service Sewer District provided public spirited enterprises of William Harpold. sewer service in August, 1988.

The first post office was opened August 16, Zoning was implemented in 1995. The town 1858, and its first postmaster was John Fish. council meets on the first Wednesday of each month. It was incorporated as Hartford City, by an Act of the Legislature March 5, 1868, and The Planning Commission meets on the third George W. Moredock was first mayor. Wednesday of each month immediately following the council meeting. Population, 614 (2010 Census); nominating conventions for town officials are held every two Bank: BB&T. years on the first Thursday in April and the town election is held on the second Tuesday in Library: Naylor Hall Memorial Library which June; officials take office on July first; next also serves as the Town Hall. election, June 11, 2013. Population, 318 (2010 Census); volunteer fire Mayor: Sam Anderson. department; elections held every four years on the first Tuesday in June; officials take office Recorder: Cheryl Oldaker. July first; next election, June 4, 2013.

Police Chief: Sam Anderson. Mayor: Mary Sue Catlett.

Municipal Judge: Cheryl Oldaker. Recorder: Terri Miskovsky.

Court Clerk: Sarah Zuspan. Treasurer: Cheryl Young.

Members of Council: Susan Kensler; Secretary: Amy Corvin, Contracted. LeeAnnn Zerkle; Diane McMillin; Scott McMillin; David Burris. Members of Council: William Donaldson; Ron Good; Mary Beth Good. ______Hedgesville—Berkeley County Henderson—Mason County Zip Code 25427 Zip Code 25106 (Magisterial District: Norborne). (Magisterial District: Clendenin). Hedgesville, as a political entity, is older than the State of West Virginia, being incorporated Incorporated in 1893 by Circuit Court. under the laws of Virginia in 1854. It was Named for Samuel Bruce Henderson, a platted in 1830 from land owned by Josiah confederate soldier in the Civil War, who at the Hedges and Mary Claycomb; these plots coming time owned all the land upon which the town is from the Lord Fairfax and Westenhaver grants. located. His gravesite is maintained in the town along with that of General John McCausland. The town grew from a trading village in the Henderson is the battleground of the Shawnee gap of North Mountain for settlers moving battle with Chief Cornstalk and Chief Red west. In the 1880s through 1920 it was a Hawk at Gilmore Point Site. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 706

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Located on the banks at the confluence of the Population, 260 (2010 Census); elections held great Kanawha and Ohio rivers. every four years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next election, Population, 271 (2010 Census); elections held June 9, 2015. every four years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next election, Mayor: Anne M. Walker. June 9, 2015. Recorder: Sandra Gladwell. Mayor: Jack McCoy, Sr. Finance Director: Sandra Simmons. Recorder: Carolyn McCoy. Members of Council: Janice Goode; John Clerk: Carolyn McCoy. Hill; James Johnson; Sandra Gladwell; Lois Wilfong. Police Chief: David W. McCoy, Jr. ______Municipal Judge: Ricky D. Wright.

City Attorney: Dan Roll. Charter and copies on file in Circuit Clerk’s Office. Court Clerk: Carolyn McCoy. ______Members of Council: Rex Patterson; William Moore; William Carper, Jr.; Mabel E. Long; Mary E. McCoy. Hinton—Summers County

______Zip Code 25951 (Magisterial District: Greenbrier). Hendricks—Tucker County County seat. Established in 1873, but not Zip Code 26271 chartered until 1897, by an Act of the Legislature. Named for John (Jack) Hinton, (Magisterial District: Black Fork). prominent lawyer of Summers County and husband of Avis Gwinn Hinton, pioneer, who Incorporated in 1894 and named by the late owned the land upon which the city is now Henry Gassaway Davis for Thomas A. located. Hendricks, Vice President of the United States, 1885. Listed February 17, 1984, in the National Register of Historic Places. Home of the Population, 272 (2010 Census); elevation, Veterans Memorial Museum of Southern West 1,721 feet; industry, Hincliff Lumber Company; Virginia, Hinton Railroad Museum and the elections held every two years on the second Bluestone Dam. Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next election, June 11, 2013. Class III city; population, 2,676 (2010 Census); elevation, 1,382 feet; part-paid and Mayor: Solena L. Roberts. volunteer fire department; elections held every Recorder-Treasurer: April Miller. four years on the second Tuesday in April; officials take office July first; next election, Members of Council: Pete Bava; Ray April 9, 2013. Tuesing; John Hinkle; Steve Booth; Floyd Lowell Carr. Hospital: Summers County ARH Hospital. Active banks: First Century Bank, City ______National Bank, First Community Bank.

Library: Summers County Library. Hillsboro—Pocahontas County Mayor: Joseph M. Blankenship. Zip Code 24946 City Manager: Cris C. Meadows. (Magisterial District: Little Levels). Chief of Police: Derek S. Snavely. Established in 1843 but not incorporated until 1886 by Circuit Court. Named for John Street Commissioner: Ralph L. Trout, Jr. Hill, who was instrumental in having the town laid out. Birthplace of Pearl S. Buck, famous Fire Chief: L. R. Pivont, Jr. author. City Attorney: Richard Gunnoe. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 707

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Members of Council: Pat Jordan; Larry K. County seat of Cabell County. Collis P. Meador; Bobby Basham; Charles S. Oxley, Jr. Huntington founded the city which bears his name to be the western terminus for the Police Civil Service Commission: David Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company. Madison; Gary Miller; Geoff Tuckerman. Incorporated in 1871, the city’s site was planned and laid out by Mr. Huntington, president of the ______C & O. The wide, straight avenues of the city attest to his engineering talent and aesthetic Charter on file in City Hall, Hinton, foresight. His statue stands in front of CSX West Virginia. Copies on file in County Transportation offices, its original site when first Court, Hinton. given to the community. The hub of a three-state area, Huntington is where West Virginia, Ohio ______and Kentucky join hands. Hundred—Wetzel County Location of Marshall University (founded in 1837 as Marshall Academy) and the Joan C. Zip Code 26575 Edwards School of Medicine at Marshall University. Home of Huntington Museum of (Magisterial District: Church). Art, a nationally recognized art museum designed by world-renowned architect Walter Incorporated in 1894. Named in honor of Gropius. Site of Harris Riverfront Park, Big Henry Church and his wife, first settlers, who Sandy Superstore Arena, Ritter Park and Rose lived to be 109 and 106 years of age, Gardens, Cam Henderson Center (home of respectively. Formerly known as Old Hundred. Marshall University basketball), Marshall Population, 299 (2010 Census); elevation, University Stadium (James F. Edwards Field) 1,019 feet; volunteer fire department; public site of NCAA football, two amphitheaters, park, swimming pool; elections held every two numerous public tennis courts and ball fields; years on the second Tuesday in June; officials public and private boat docks encourage boating take office July first; next election, June 11, and water skiing on the Ohio River. Rotary Park 2013. and Camp Mad Anthony Wayne are home to the only 18-hole disc golf courses on public land Active bank: Union Bank (Hundred Branch). in West Virginia. Host to the district High School Marching Band Festival (first Saturday Mayor: Charles A. Sine. in May), and the Dogwood Arts and Crafts Festival (last week in April). Recorder-Treasurer: Sherry A. Hayes. The East Huntington Bridge is the only cable Chief of Police: J. Clay Lunceford. stayed box girder design with one single Fire Chief: Bert Anderson. concrete tower.

Maintenance Supervisor: Terrell Class II city; population 49,138 (2010 Greathouse. Census); downtown elevation 564 feet; highest point 900 feet. Members of Council: Charles Himelrick; Johanna Lemasters; Brian Bartlett; Shirley Strong Mayor charter adopted in 1985. First Miller. primary election under new charter held on September 10, 1985, and the general election on ______November 5, 1985. Next general election, November 5, 2012. The city is divided into nine districts; the council candidates run to Incorporated 1890, special charter represent the district in which he or she lives, enacted by the West Virginia Legislature and two members are elected at large. Members prior to 1936. Charter on file in Charleston of council and the mayor are elected for four- and Wetzel County Courthouse. year terms. ______Paid fire and police departments, ambulance Huntington— service. One daily, one Sunday and one weekly newspaper; five AM and eight FM radio stations Cabell and Wayne Counties plus three television stations; three national Zip Codes 25701, 25702, 25703, 25704, 25705 television networks and cable service with 71 channels available. (Magisterial Districts: Kyle, Gideon, part of Guyandotte (Cabell) and Westmoreland Hospitals: Cabell-Huntington Hospital, St. (Wayne)). Mary’s Hospital, Mildred Mitchell-Bateman Hospital, Veterans Administration Hospital, Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 708

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System, HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital Hurricane—Putnam County and River Park Hospital. Zip Code 25526 Libraries: Cabell County Public Library (Downtown) with branches in Guyandotte, (Magisterial District: Curry). Gallaher Village and West Huntington; James E. Morrow Library and John Deaver Drinko Incorporated in 1888 by Putnam County Library (Marshall University). Circuit Court. Named for Hurricane Creek, which was so named about 1774 when Active banks: Chase, Huntington Banks, City surveyors discovered the effects of a tornado National Bank, BB&T, First Sentry Bank, that many years before had laid low giant trees Guaranty Bank & Trust Co., United National of the forests covering that section of the state. Bank. Savings and loan companies: Huntington Class III city; population, 6,284 (2010 Federal Savings Bank, Fifth/Third. Census); elevation, 667 feet; volunteer fire Mayor: Kim Wolfe. department; elections held every four years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office City Clerk: Barbara Nelson. July first; next election, June 9, 2015.

Big Sandy Superstore Arena Director: Active banks: Putnam County Bank, BB&T Brian Sipe. Bank, City National Bank.

Finance Director: Deron Runyon. Public library: Hurricane Branch Library.

Fire Chief: Randy Ellis. Television station: WVAH-TV; weekly newspaper: Hurricane Breeze. Municipal Judge: Sharon Frazier.

Purchasing Agent: Darryl Miller. Parks and facilities: Hurricane City Park, featuring sprayground, tennis and basketball Parking Board Director: Mike Wilson. courts, picnic shelters, fitness trail, baseball and softball fields, skatepark and adventure Personnel Director: Sherry Lewis. playground equipment; Valley Park, featuring a wave pool, water slide park, baseball field, Police Chief: William Holbrook. tennis courts, picnic shelters, walking trail, Public Works Director: David Hagley. sand volleyball, miniature golf, shuffleboard, horseshoes and playground equipment. Director of Development and Planning: Hurricane Valley Community Center is Charles Holley. available for meetings and seminars with a 200- seating capacity. Director of Administration and Finance: Brandi Jacobs-Jones. Mayor: Scott Edwards.

Members of Council: Frances Jackson; Recorder: Linda Gibson. James Insco; Scott Caserta; Teresa Loudermilk; Sandra Clements; Nate Randolph; Mark Bates; Treasurer: Dennis Carte. Kirk Gillenwater; Joyce Clark; Steve Williams (At-large); Rebecca Thacker (At-large.) Chief of Police: Michael Mullins.

Firemen’s Civil Service Commission: Planning and Tourism Director: Brenda Charles Bagley III; Tim Carpenter; Roger Earl. J. Campbell.

Policemen’s Civil Service Commission: City Manager: Ben Newhouse. Matt Miller; Greg Rowsey; David Harris. Fire Chief: Frank Stover. Sanitary Board: Kim Wolfe, Mayor; Garry Black; Alex Vance. Water Board: Reggie Billups, Chairperson; Scott Edwards; Jack H. Gibson; James ______McGehee; Stephan Goff.

Sanitary Board: Scott Edwards, Charter on file in offices of City Clerk, Chairperson; Jack H. Gibson; Stefan Goff; Al Cabell County Clerk, and Wayne County Howard; Marshall Ginn. Clerk (in accordance with 8A-2-10, West Virginia Code). Copies on file in office of Water Distribution and Sewer City Clerk, Huntington. Collections: Ronnie Woodall.

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Wastewater Plant Superintendent: John Incorporated in 1917. Named for Colonel Thayer. William G. W. Iaeger, whose son, Dr. William R. Iaeger, had a plat of the present town made Street Superintendent: Lee Campbell. about the year 1885.

Building Inspector and Code Population, 302 (2010 Census); elevation, 982 Enforcement Officer: Danny Brickles. feet; volunteer fire department; elections held every two years on the second Tuesday in June; Municipal Planning Commission: officials take office July first; next election, Michael Johnson, Chairman; Mike Keller, Jim June 11, 2013. Colvin; Brenda Campbell; Brian Ellis. Active bank: Pioneer Community Bank. Board of Zoning Appeals: (Vacancy). Mayor: Joseph D. Ford. Police Judge: Phyllis Smith. Recorder: Ruby Fanning. Members of Council: Reggie Billups; Brian Ellis; Donna Dunlevy; Marshall Ginn; Stefan Chief of Police: Joe Ford. Goff. Fire Chief: Paul Hare, Jr. Economic Development Authority: Brenda Campbell, Chairperson; Mike Keller; Municipal Judge: Lawrence Crigger. Gary Walton; Clara Carmichael; Linda Gibson; Members of Council: Delbert Kiser; Lionel Kozee; Joe Young; Donna Dunlevy. Eugene Shaw; Danny Kennedy; Jimmy Cline; Convention and Visitors Bureau: Brenda Cleda Carter. Campbell, Director; Linda L. Gibson; Ben ______Newhouse. Building Commission: Gary Walton; Jack Jane Lew—Lewis County Gibson; (Vacancy). Zip Code 26378 ______(Magisterial District: Hacker’s Creek). Huttonsville—Randolph County Laid out in 1835 by Lewis Maxwell, member of Congress from Virginia, 1827-1833, but not Zip Code 26273 incorporated until 1907. Named in honor of Jane Lewis, mother of the founder of the town. (Magisterial District: Huttonsville). Population, 409 (2010 Census); elevation, Incorporated in 1899 by Circuit Court and 1,007 feet; elections held every four years on the named for the Hutton family, pioneers in the second Tuesday in June; officials take office Tygart Valley River section of Randolph County. July first; next election, June 11, 2013. Location of West Virginia Medium Security Prison. Mayor: Charles Straley.

Population, 221 (2010 Census); elevation, Recorder-Treasurer: Deborah Frazier. 2,024 feet; elections held every two years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office Fire Chief: (Vacancy). July first; next election, June 11, 2013. City Attorney: Thomas Michael.

Mayor: Rodney McAtee. Municipal Judge: Lloyd T. Fox.

Recorder-Treasurer: (Vacancy). Court Clerk: Deborah Frazier.

Members of Council: Jedson Liggett; Lisa Members of Council: David Cottrill; Tom Fincham; Reuben Currence; Bradley McAtee; Fox; Charles Straley; Maxine Olson; Gene Suzanne Thompson. Davis; Cynthia Swiger.

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Zip Code 24844 Zip Code 26275

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Incorporated November 13, 1897, by Circuit Public Works Supervisor: Fox Heaberlin. Court and named by the late Henry Gassaway Davis for his son, Harry Junior Davis. Members of Council: Don Bias, President; Ted Rakes, Vice President; Dan Pelfrey; Terry Population, 412 (2010 Census); elevation, Parsons; Betty Spry. 1,731 feet; volunteer fire department; elections held every two years on the first Tuesday in ______June; officials take office July first; next election, June 4, 2013. Kermit—Mingo County

Mayor: Gary Miller. Zip Code 25674

Recorder: LouAnn Shomo (Magisterial District: Kermit).

Treasurer: (Vacancy). Incorporated in 1909 by Circuit Court and named for Kermit Roosevelt, son of President Clerk: Susan Strawder. Theodore Roosevelt. Formerly known as Lower Chief of Police: Carlton Haller. Burning Creek and Warfield.

Fire Chief: Greg Peek. Population, 406 (2010 Census); elevation, 628 feet; volunteer fire department; elections City Attorney: Thomas Michael. held every four years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next Municipal Judge: Ron Grey. election, June 11, 2013.

Town Council: Jack Skidmore; Richard Mayor: Johnny Linville. Vest; Jerry Wilson; Steven Rhodes; Robert Skidmore. City Clerk: L. Dawn Fluty Hunt.

______Fire Chief: Wilburn Preece.

Kenova—Wayne County Chief of Police: Johnny Maynard. Municipal Judge: John Linville. Zip Code 25530 Members of Council: Tommy Preece; Anna (Magisterial District: Ceredo). Mae Wellman; Charles Castle; Charles Sparks; Founded in 1858, but not incorporated until Sue Lacy. 1894. Kenova’s present charter was granted ______June 21, 1986. The municipality’s name is a compounded abbreviation of Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia, because Kenova is located at Keyser—Mineral County the point where the three states converge. Zip Code 26726 Class III city; population, 3,216 (2010 Census); elevation, 567 feet; volunteer fire (Magisterial District: New Creek). department; paid police department; elections County seat. Incorporated in 1874 and named held every four years on the first Tuesday in for William Keyser, first vice president of the June; officials take office July first; next Baltimore & Ohio Railroad when the city was election, June 2, 2015. originally incorporated. Formerly known as Active banks: United National Bank, Fifth Paddytown, and during the Civil War as New Third Bank, BB&T. Creek, scene of numerous military engagements. Location of Potomac State Mayor: Rickey W. Griffith. College of West Virginia University.

Clerk-Treasurer: Linda Myles. Class III city; population, 5,439 (2010 Census); elevation, 809 feet; volunteer fire City Attorneys: Debra Price; Ryan Turner. department; elections held annually on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office Police Chief: William Lett. July first; next election, June 10, 2014. Police Judge: Steven G. Jordan. Hospital: Potomac Valley. Library: Keyser Volunteer Fire Department Chief: Tim Mineral County Public Library. Active banks: Bias. BB&T, M&T Bank, First United Bank of West Virginia. Building Inspector: W. Jennings Jarrell. Mayor: Randy Amtower. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 711

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City Manager: Deborah Pamepinto. Charter on file in offices of Circuit Court and County Court, McDowell Chief of Police: Karen Shoemaker. County. Fire Chief: Chris Paitsel. ______

City Attorney: John Athey. Kimball—McDowell County Municipal Judge: John Lusk. Zip Code 24853 Public Works Director: Jim Hannas. (Magisterial District: Browns Creek). Sanitary Board Director: William Rhodes. Incorporated in 1911 and named for the late Water Board Director: Glen Shumaker. Frederick J. Kimball who, as president of what is now the Norfolk and Western Railway, blazed Human Resources Director: Bonnie L. a trail through the mountains of southwestern Hawkins. Virginia into the great coal fields of southern West Virginia. Location of first war memorial Members of Council: Sonny Alt; Ed Miller; building erected in the United States to the Clinton Faulk; Bill Roy; Herman Judy. memory of black veterans of World War I.

______Population, 194 (2010 Census); volunteer fire department; elections held every two years on Keystone—McDowell County the second Tuesday in July; officials take office August first; next election, July 14, 2013. Zip Code 24868 Mayor: Randolph Deloatch. (Magisterial District: Browns Creek). Recorder: Clara Thompson. Incorporated in 1909 by Circuit Court. Name derived from the name of a coal and coke Clerk-Treasurer: Glenna Anderson. company operating at that point. Formerly City Supervisor: Terry Jerrells. known as Cassville. Chief of Police: Glen P. McCoy. Population, 282 (2010 Census); elevation, 1,645 feet; volunteer fire department; elections Fire Chief: James J. Gianato. held every four years on the first Thursday in February; officials take office March first; next City Attorney: Paul R. Cassell. election, February 6, 2014. Municipal Judges: Floyd Graham; Glenna Mayor: Dennis Robertson. Anderson.

Recorder: Vondelere A. Scott. Members of Council: James Gianato; Adam Granato; James Redd; Willie Weaver; Members of Council: Sylvene Thomas; Nathaniel Burroughes. Tishie Myers; Elizabeth Carrington; Jerry Warden. ______

Chief of Police: Patrick McKinney. Kingwood—Preston County Street and Water Commissioner: Ronnie Mitchem. Zip Code 26537

Fire Chief: Harold Scott. (Magisterial District: Kingwood).

City Attorney: Stephen Paesani. County seat. Established in 1811, but not chartered until March 22, 1853, by the Virginia Municipal Judge: Vondelene Scott. Assembly. The Legislature on March 2, 1868, provided for election of officers. Name selected Assistant Clerk: Vondelere A. Scott. because of the location there of a forest of unusually tall trees: forest king, i.e. “king Water Works and Maintenance: Nathan wood”. Evans; Ronnie Mitchem; Tony Mullins. Class III city; population, 2,939 (2010 ______Census); elevation, 1,862 feet; volunteer fire department; elections held every two years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next election, June 11, 2013. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 712

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Active banks: WesBanco Bank Kingwood, City Attorney: James Casey. BB&T, Clear Mountain Bank. Hospital: Preston Memorial. Sanitary Board Director: M. Bruce Riffle.

Mayor: James G. Lobb. Members of Council: Crystal Cash; Gregory M. Barker; Adam Null; Terri A. Rymer; Recorder: William Robertson. Dawn Livingston.

Clerk-Treasurer: Martha Moore. ______

City Supervisor: Bruce Pyles. Incorporated by an order of the Circuit Chief of Police: James G. Lobb. Court, May 21, 1872.

Fire Chief: Clifford Thomas, Jr. ______

City Attorney: Sheila Kae Williams. Lester—Raleigh County Municipal Judge: Marsha Diane Thomas. Zip Code 25865 Members of Council: Jeffrey J. Zigray; Michael Loughry; James Maier; James Shaffer; (Magisterial District: Trap Hill). Jean-Manuel Guillot. Incorporated in 1910 by Circuit Court. Water Department: Robert McVicker, Chief Named for Champ Lester, early settler. Operator; Erik Degler, Field Supervisor. Population, 348 (2010 Census); elevation, Water Commission: Robert DeRiggi, Vice 2,030 feet; municipal water system; volunteer Chairman; Kerri Shultz, Secretary; William fire department; elections held every four years Bolyard, Treasurer; James Maier, Council on the first Tuesday in June; officials take office Representative. July first; next election, June 2, 2015.

Parks and Recreation Commission: Mayor: Kenneth Sam Allen. (Vacancies). Finance Director: Kenneth Allen. Library Commission: Rosemary Recorder: Xavier Bell. Bernotowicz; Sheila Kae Williams; Mary Ellen Snyder; Roger Hardesty; Joel Beane, Librarian; Clerk: Rebecca McGhee. William Robertson, Council Representative. Fire Chief: Frank Matics. Sewer Board: James G. Lobb, Chairman; William Rosier, Vice Chairman; Charles Miller, City Attorney: James Kelsh. Secretary-Treasurer. Municipal Judge: Patricia Farruggia. ______Members of Council: Doug McGhee; Rebecca McGhee; Charles Canterbury; Brian Leon—Mason County Joyce; Ronald Lester.

Zip Code 25123 ______(Magisterial District: II). Lewisburg—Greenbrier County Laid out in 1840 by Benjamin Byram, but not incorporated until 1872 by an order of the Zip Code 24901 Circuit Court. Named by Mr. Byram after a town he visited during the Mexican-American (Magisterial District: Lewisburg). War. Records of the Post Office Department County seat. History of city dates back to show the post office at Leon was established Camp Union in 1774, rendezvous of the army of March 5, 1831. General Andrew Lewis (after whom the town Population, 158 (2010 Census); elevation, 559 was named) preparatory to his march to feet; elections held every four years on the participate in the Battle of Point Pleasant second Tuesday in June; officials take office (Dunmore’s War), the last between the white July first; next election, June 11, 2013. men and Indians east of the Ohio River. Site of Fort Savannah (1755). Mayor: M. Bruce Riffle. Location of West Virginia School of Recorder: C. Renae Riffle. Osteopathic Medicine, Greenbrier Valley Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 713

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Theatre, New River Technical & Community department; elections held every four years on College, Carnegie Hall and North House the first Tuesday in April; officials take office Museum. May first; next election, April 7, 2015.

Class III city; population, 3,830 (2010 Hospital: Logan Regional Medical Center. Census); elevation, 2,200 feet; volunteer fire Library: Logan Public. Active Banks: Bank One department; elections held every two years on of Logan, Logan Bank & Trust Company. the second Tuesday in June with staggered, Federal Savings and Loan Association: United four-year terms of office; officials take office National. July first; next election, June 11, 2013, for election of recorder and three council members. Mayor: Serafino J. Nolletti.

Library: Greenbrier County. Active banks: Recorder/Clerk: Amber Miller-Viars. City National Bank, First National Bank of Finance Director: Jeff Vallet. Ronceverte, First Citizens Bank, BB&T, Bank of Monroe. Chief of Police: E. K. Harper.

Mayor: John Manchester. Fire Chief: Scott Beckett.

Recorder: Shannon Ninnemann. City Attorney: Kendal Partlow.

Treasurer: Susan Honaker. Municipal Judge: Robert Kuenzei.

Chief of Police: Tim Stover. Court Clerk: Stephanie Avis.

Director of Public Works: Mark Carver. Public Works Director: Pete Brumfield.

Fire Chief: Wayne Pennington. Sanitary Board Manager: Tommy Esposito. City Attorney: Jesse Guills, Jr. Water Department Manager: Carol Members of Council: Mark Etten; Joshua Conley. Baldwin; Beverly White; Andrew Evans; Joseph Lutz. Members of Council: Mike Allie; Donna Willis; Josh Muncy; Densil Mullins; Basil Lee. ______Incorporated 1782 by State of Virginia prior to formation of West Virginia. Charter on file at Virginia Assembly, Lost Creek—Harrison County Capitol Building, Richmond, Virginia. For copies see 11 Hennings Statutes at Large Zip Code 26385 139. (Magisterial District: Grant). ______Incorporated May 6, 1946, by Act of the Legislature. According to tradition, the town Logan—Logan County received its name from a message carved on trees along the creek before this part of the Zip Code 25601 state was settled.

(Magisterial District: Logan). Population, 496 (2010 Census); volunteer fire department; elections held every two years on County seat. Laid out in 1827. First known as the second Tuesday in June; officials take office Lawnville. Originally chartered by the Virginia July first; next election, June 10, 2014. Assembly in 1852 as Aracoma, after Princess Aracoma (buried here), beautiful daughter of Active bank: Harrison County Bank. Cornstalk, Shawnee Chief, who was mortally wounded in a battle between the settlers and Mayor: Rondal K. Lake. her band of Indians. Name changed to Logan in 1907 after the Indian chief, Logan, who at one Recorder/Clerk: Kathryn L. Goldsmith. time is said to have roamed the hills and valleys Police Chief: Rondal Lake. of this section of the state. Here Thomas Dunn English, who served as Mayor from 1852 to Fire Chief: Bill McNemar. 1857, wrote the song “Ben Bolt”. City Attorney: Thomas Michael. Class III city; population, 1,779 (2010 Census); elevation, 682 feet; paid fire Municipal Judge: (Vacancy). Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 714

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Members of Council: Walter Knight; Chief of Police: (Vacancy). Orville Lake; Linda Maul; Amy Rogers; Edward Corkrean. Fire Chief: Daryl Bailey.

______City Attorney: Floyd M. Sayre III. Municipal Judge: Floyd M. Sayre III. Lumberport—Harrison County Public Works Director: Wayne Houck. Zip Code 26386 Members of Council: Larry Raines; Ronald (Magisterial District: Eagle). W. Martin; James Avis; Jesse A. Farley; Carolyn Davis. Originally chartered in 1838. So named because of the location at this point, over a ______hundred years ago, of a boat yard where timber was dressed by hand and floated in rafts to Madison—Boone County market at Pittsburgh. Zip Code 25130 Population, 876 (2010 Census); volunteer fire department, 35 members; rated a Class VI fire (Magisterial District: Scott). town; elections held every two years on the first Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; County seat. First established as Boone Court next election, June 4, 2013. House. Burned during the Civil War. Incorporated in 1906 and named for Colonel Mayor: George A. Hagan. William Madison Peyton, pioneer coal operator, who was leader of the movement which resulted Recorder: Sherry Exline. in the formation of Boone County. Clerk: Meshelle D. Gregory. Class III city; population, 3,076 (2010 Assistant Clerk: (Vacancy). Census); elevation, 703 feet; volunteer fire department; elections held every four years on Fire Chief: Wilbur Cook. the first Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next election, June 4, 2013. Chief of Police: Jeff Beach. Active bank: Premier Bank, Inc. Municipal Judge: George A. Hagan. Hospital: Boone Memorial. Sanitation Board Director: Bill Fratto. Mayor: H. H. Howell, Jr. Members of Council: Johnny T. Raven; David Markley; Leslie Gianettino; Rhonda Recorder: Randell Foxx. Cook; Emily Cook. Clerk: Kim Bannister. ______Chief of Police: Chet R. Burgess.

Mabscott—Raleigh County City Manager: Chet R. Burgess.

Zip Code 25871 Fire Chief: James Nelson.

(Magisterial District: First). City Attorney: H. G. Shaffer III.

Incorporated in 1906 by Circuit Court and Municipal Judge: Alice McClure. named for Mable (Shinn) Scott of Fairmont, wife of the late Cyrus H. Scott, prominent coal Court Clerk: Joanna Bias. operator of Raleigh County. Members of Council: P. J. Johnson; Renee Population, 1,408 (2010 Census); elevation, Hager; James Hudson; Carolyn Mullins; Danny 1,107 feet; elections held every four years on the Warner. second Tuesday in June; officials take office ______July first; next election, June 11, 2013. Mayor: R. Wayne Houck. Man—Logan County

Recorder: Mary Basham. Zip Code 25635

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Established July 8, 1918, as Buffalo City. Street and Water Superintendent: Changed to Man, February 5, 1925, by Circuit Willard Nice. Court. Name derived from the last syllable of the surname of Ulysses Hinchman, member of Fire Chief: Jim Moran. the House of Delegates from Logan County, 1866-69. Members of Council: Terry Starsick; Christina Dunigan; Larry Smith; Rana Taylor; Population, 759 (2010 Census); elevation, 729 Becky Williams. feet; volunteer fire department; elections held every four years on the second Tuesday in June; ______officials take office July first; next election, June 9, 2015. Incorporated 1921, special charter Active bank: First Community Bank. enacted by West Virginia Legislature prior to 1936. Charter and copies on file Mayor: Jim Blevins. at Mannington, Marion County Courthouse and State Capitol, Clerk: Mavis Toler. Charleston, Acts of Legislature, Chapter Municipal Judge: Bonnie Grimmett. 13, p. 359. New Charter enacted July 1, 1975. Recorder-Treasurer: Cheryl A. Merritt. ______Chief of Police: David Walls.

Fire Chief: William Weese. Marlinton—Pocahontas County City Attorney: Adrian Hoosier. Zip Code 24954 Members of Council: Roger Muncy; Mavis Toler; Darrell Mangrum; Johnathon Fekete; (Magisterial District: Edray). Steven Adkins. County seat. First established in 1749. ______Known as Marlin’s Bottom until 1887. Incorporated in 1900 by Circuit Court. Named for Jacob Marlin, one of the first settlers to Incorporated 1926 by Circuit Court of spend a winter in Pocahontas County, the other Logan County. Charter on file with Clerk being Stephen Sewell. of Circuit Court, Logan, and copies on file at City Hall, Man. Population, 1,054 (2010 Census); elevation, 2,127 feet; volunteer fire department; elections ______held every four years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next Mannington—Marion County election, June 9, 2015.

Zip Code 26582 Hospital: Pocahontas Memorial. Active banks: First Citizens Bank, City National Bank, (Magisterial District: West Augusta). Pendleton Community Bank.

Chartered as a town in 1856 by the Virginia Mayor: Joseph W. Smith. General Assembly. Reincorporated as a town by the State of West Virginia in 1871. Incorporated Recorder: Robin Mutscheller. as a city in 1921 by Act of the Legislature. Treasurer: Teresa S. Barlow. Class III city; population, 2,063 (2010 Housing Authority: Fred C. Burns, Jr., Census); elevation, 975 feet; fire department; Chairman. elections held every two years on the first Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; City Attorney: Martin Saffer. next election, June 4, 2013. Police Chief: Everette Tinney. Active bank: First Exchange Bank. Industries: Coal, oil and gas. Fire Chief: Herb Barlow.

Mayor: Robert Garcia. Municipal Judge: Richard Groseclose.

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Members of Council: David Zorn; Loretta Martinsburg—Berkeley Malcomb; Norris Long; Mark Jackson; Joe County Smith. Zip Code 25401 ______(Magisterial District: Martinsburg).

Order of Incorporation on record in County seat. Originally chartered in 1778 and Circuit Clerk’s Office in Law Order Book named in honor of Colonel Thomas Bryan 6, 409. No charter. Martin, nephew of Lord Fairfax. Incorporated by Act of the Legislature March 30, 1868. ______Class II city; population, 17,227 (2010 Marmet—Kanawha County Census); elevation, 457 feet; paid fire department; elections held every four years on Zip Code 25315 the second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next election, June 14, 2016. (Magisterial District: District I). Hospitals: Veterans Administration Center, Incorporated in 1921. Named for the Marmet WVUH-East City Hospital. Library: Coal Company, owned by William and Edwin Martinsburg Public. Active banks: First United Marmet, which began the development of large Bank and Trust, BB&T, City National Bank, tracts of coal lands at that place in 1899. First Jefferson Security, BCT (Bank of Charles named Elizaville after Mrs. Leonard Morris, Town), Centra Bank, Inc., Citizens National original settler here in 1773. Later known as Bank, Premier Bank, Susquehanna Bank and Browntown after Charles Brown, who was MVB Bank. financially interested in the salt business. Mayor: George Karos. Home of Genesis Health Care Center; company owned and operated. City Manager: Mark S. Baldwin.

Population, 1,503 (2010 Census); volunteer Recorder: Gena Long. fire department; elections held every four years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take Treasurer: Dennis J. Etherington. office July first; next election, June 11, 2013. Finance Director: Mark Spickler. Mayor: Billy L. Pauley. Chief of Police: Kevin E. Miller. Finance Director: David Fontalbert. Public Works Director: Jeff Wilkerson. Recorder: David Fontalbert. Utilities Director: Steve Knipe. City Clerk: Sherry Jones. Fire Chief: Paul Bragg. Chief of Police: Fred Maynor. City Engineer and Planning Director: Fire Chief: Jerry L. McGhee. Mike Covell.

Municipal Judge: Billy L. Pauley. City Planner: Tracy A. Smith.

Clerk: Fred Maynor. Community Development Director: Patricia McMillan. Public Works Superintendent: James Halstead, Jr. Members of Council: Gregg Wachtel; Jason W. Baker; Kevin Knowles; Roger Lewis; Max City Attorney: Wyatt Hanna III. Parkinson; Dennis J. Etherington; Don Anderson. Sanitary Board Director: Billy L. Pauley. Firemen’s Civil Service Commission: Members of Council: Ruth Meadows; Gary Fleming; P. C. DiMagno; Steve Canby. Peggy Jacobs; Bob Wells; Jerry L. McGhee, II; Walter Tardy; Belinda Hudson, office manager. Policemen’s Civil Service Commission: Robert L. Lowe II; William R. Gain; Tom ______Belfield.

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Mason—Mason County Water Works Commission: Roger Street; Luther Thrasher; Wade Lowdermilk. Zip Code 25260 Sanitary Sewer Board: Lydia Main; (Magisterial District: Waggener). Preston Street; Ted Gregg.

Originally chartered by the General Assembly Members of Council: Luther H. Thrasher; of Virginia in 1856. Named for the county, Roxie Turner; Marvin Stuck; Curtis Dalton. which was named for George W. Mason, author of the Constitution of Virginia. Formerly known ______as Waggener’s Bottom. Matewan—Mingo County Population, 968 (2010 Census); elections held every two years on the second Tuesday in June; Zip Code 25678 officials take office July first; next election, June 11, 2013. (Magisterial District: Magnolia).

Mayor: Mindy L. Kearns. Incorporated in 1895. Named after Matewan, New York, home city of the engineer who laid Recorder-Treasurer: Deann Russell. out the town.

Clerk: (Vacancy). Population, 499 (2010 Census); elevation, 698 feet; volunteer fire department; elections held Chief of Police: David Woolard. every four years on the second Tuesday in June; Fire Chief: Kevin Turley. officials take office July first; next election, June 11, 2013. City Attorney: Joe Supple. Active bank: Bank of Mingo. Municipal Judge: Paul Crump. Mayor: Sheila Kessler. Members of Council: Sarah Stover; Marty Yeager; Nick Northup; James Pauley; Michelle Clerk: Nancy Day. Pearson. Recorder: Rebecca Addair. ______Chief of Police: David Stratton. Masontown—Preston County Fire Chief: Michael Preston.

Zip Code 26542 Utility Board: Sheila Kessler; Bobby Horton; Michael Collins; Nancy Day; Bill (Magisterial District: Valley). Sutterlin; Frank Collins.

Incorporated in 1905 by Circuit Court and Water Superintendent: Timothy Collins. named for William Mason, the founder and the town’s first postmaster. City Attorney: Ron Flora.

Population, 546 (2010 Census); elevation, Members of Council: Edward Nenni; Steve 1,275 feet; volunteer fire department; elections Fullen; Keith Blankenship; Lois Justice; David held every two years on the second Tuesday in Smith. June; officials take office July first; next ______election, June 10, 2014.

Mayor: Lydia Main. Incorporated 1895, special charter enacted by the West Virginia Legislature Recorder: James Cottrell. prior to 1936. Charter lost in flood.

Treasurer: (Vacancy). ______Fire Chief: William Cress. Matoaka—Mercer County Chief of Police: (Vacancy). Zip Code 24736 Water Superintendent: John Lambert. (Magisterial District: Rock). Assistant Water Superintendent: (Vacancy). Incorporated in 1910 by Circuit Court. Named for the Indian princess, Pocahontas, Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 718

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daughter of Powhattan, Indian chief, Matoaka Members of Council: Nancy Boreman; being another name, "secret or sacred", for Eric Thornton; David Kobaskio; Alice Hill; Pocahontas. Patricia Wilson; Jill Hawkins.

Population, 227 (2010 Census); elevation, ______2,363 feet; volunteer fire department; elections held every two years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next Meadow Bridge—Fayette County election, June 11, 2013. Zip Code 25976 Mayor: Todd Colonna. (Magisterial District: New Haven). Recorder/Clerk: Lamar Lancaster. Incorporated in 1920. Name coined from the Chief of Police: Tom Anderson. pioneer community name of “The Little Meadows”, a bridge having been constructed Fire Chief: Wayne Billings. across Meadow Creek within the town limits at Municipal Judge: Todd Colonna. the time.

Sanitary Board: Wayne Billings. Located in the southeast corner of Fayette County on State Route 20, 12 miles southwest Members of Council: Douglas Hawkes; of Rainelle. Principal industry: Farming. Frank Caruso; Roby Shrewsburgy; Kelly Colonna; Debra Vickers, Secretary. Population, 379 (2010 Census); elevation, 2,426 feet; volunteer fire department; elections ______held every two years on the first Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next election, June 4, 2013. Charter and copies on file with Circuit Court, Mercer County, Princeton. Mayor: Tim L. Killen.

______Recorder: Heather Hanshew.

Clerk: Sheena Brown. McMechen—Marshall County Fire Chief: B. L. Wade. Zip Code 26040 City Attorney: H. Wyatt Hanna. (Magisterial District: Union). Sanitary Board Director: Dwayne Cales. Incorporated in 1905 and named for the original settlers, William and Sidney (Johnson) Water Board Director: Tim Killen. McMechen. Members of Council: Barney Wade; Class IV city; population, 1,926 (2010 Elizabeth Rhodes; Charles Barnett; Patrick Census); volunteer fire department; elections Hamilton; Clara Richmond. held every four years on the second Tuesday in May; officials take office July first; next ______election, May 13, 2014. Library: Public. Middlebourne—Tyler County

Active bank: WesBanco. Zip Code 26149

Mayor: Michael A. Gracik. (Magisterial District: Ellsworth).

Clerk: Suzanne Debolt. County seat. Established 1813. Named because it was halfway between Pennsylvania Chief of Police: David Robinson. and the old Salt Wells on the Kanawha above Fire Chief: Mark Martin. Charleston. The “Jug Handle” on Middle Island Creek is one of the noted beauty spots of the City Attorney: Joseph Canestraro. Ohio Valley.

Water and Sewage Disposal Board: Population, 815 (2010 Census); elevation, 745 Michael A. Gracik, Chairman; Larry Bratton, feet; elections held every two years on the Vice Chairman; Tom Fox; Tony Polsinelli; Wade second Tuesday in June; officials take office Richey; Traci Barker, Secretary. July first; next election, June 11, 2013. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 719

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Active bank: Union Bank of Tyler County. Library. Parks: April Dawn Park, featuring picnic shelter, dragon spray ground and coming Mayor: Gayla Fisher. soon, a skateboard park; Jarrell Sargent Memorial Park, Mason and Lawhorn Streets, Finance Director: David Smith. featuring basketball, open area and volleyball. Members of Council: Vera Henthorn; Doug Mayor: Tom Canterbury. Doak; Dave Myers; Rodney Miller; Robert Clem. Recorder-Treasurer: H. M. Adams. ______Utility Commission: Tennis Adkins; Mill Creek—Randolph County Charles Conard; Eli White; Ralph Bassett.

Zip Code 26280 Chief of Police: Gary Lilly.

(Magisterial District: Huttonsville). Fire Chief: Brent Taylor.

Incorporated in 1903 by Act of the City Clerk: Benita Ryalls. Legislature. So named because a large mill was Building Inspectors: Chad Carmichael; Bill operated by William Currence on the original Morris. location. City Attorney: Travis Hoffman. Population, 724 (2010 Census); elevation, 2,013 feet; elections held every two years on the Police Judge: Andy Brison. second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next election, June 11, 2013. Members of Council: Charles Conard; Carl Harshbarger; Jimmy Smith; Phyllis K. Smith; Active bank: Mountain Valley Bank. Pat Wisman.

Mayor: William Brock. ______Recorder: Carolyn Meade.

Clerk: Janet Hosaflook. Mitchell Heights—Logan

Fire Chief: Rodney McAtee. County

Attorney: Jeffery S. Zurbuch. Zip Code 25601

Members of Council: Clyde Croston; Alan (Magisterial District: Guyan). Armstrong; Diane Currence; Eddie Currence; Gary Coffman. Incorporated February 18, 1949. Named by reason of the location being the old Mitchell ______Farm, pioneer residents of Logan County. Population, 323 (2010 Census); nominations Charter and copies on file at County for town officials made at the town convention Courthouse, Elkins. thirty days before the election; general elections held every four years on the second Tuesday in ______June; officials take office July first; next election, June 9, 2015.

Milton—Cabell County Mayor: D. Michael Ferrell.

Zip Code 25541 Town Recorder: Tom Gagnon.

(Magisterial District: Grant). Clerk: Carolyn Muncey.

Incorporated in 1876 and named for Milton Acting Police Chief: Robert Adkins. Reece, large landholder in the vicinity at the time the town was established. Municipal Judge: Frank Ruloff. Members of Council: Raymond Rushden; Class III city; population, 2,423 (2010 Terri Rodighiero; Justin Brown; Kenny Jeffrey; Census); elevation, 583 feet; volunteer fire James C. Motes. department; elections held every two years on the first Tuesday in May; officials take office ______July first; next election, May 7, 2013.

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Monongah—Marion County Mayor: James F. Higgins, Jr.

Zip Code 26554 Recorder: Greg Ingram.

(Magisterial Districts: Grant and Lincoln). Treasurer: Angela Tackett.

Incorporated in 1891 by Circuit Court. Name Fire Chief: Brent Musick. abbreviated from Monongahela, the river formed by the junction of the West Fork and City Attorney: Brian Parsons. Tygart Rivers a few miles north of the town. Police Chief: John Kauff. Population, 1,044 (2010 Census); elevation, 873 feet; volunteer fire department; elections City Engineer: Will Thornton. held every two years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next City Health Officer: Dr. Ghassan Dagher. election, June 11, 2013. Members of Council: Terrance Hamm; Mayor: Roger Huffman. Fred Lockard; Pamela Lopez; Les Thomas; David White. Recorder: Patty McCombs. ______Clerk: Donna Harris. Chief of Police: Anthony Veltri. Montrose—Randolph County

Fire Chief: Harless McCombs. Zip Code 26283

City Attorney: Thomas Michael. (Magisterial District: New Interest).

Municipal Judge: George Hagan. Incorporated in 1895 by Circuit Court. So Members of Council: Charlie Parker; named because of the profusion of wild roses Sanford Carr; Greg Vandetta; Stephen Leach; found growing in that section when the former Don Harris. West Virginia Central Railroad, now the Western Maryland, was under construction. ______Population, 156 (2010 Census); elevation, 1,996 feet; elections held every two years on the Charter and copies on file at Monongah second Tuesday in June; officials take office Town Hall, Monongah. July first; next election, June 11, 2013. ______Mayor: Joseph Bennett. Montgomery—Fayette and Kanawha Counties Recorder: Barbara Miller. Members of Council: James Bartlett; Lisa Zip Code 25136 Owens; LeRoy Wilfong; Blair Taylor; Merriam (Magisterial Districts: Valley and District Thompson. I). ______Incorporated April 1, 1891, and named for James Montgomery, one of the first settlers. Moorefield—Hardy County Location of West Virginia University Institute of Technology (formerly New River State Zip Code 26836 College) and the Bridgemont Community and (Magisterial District: Moorefield). Technical College. County seat. Originally chartered in 1777 and Class III city; population, 1,638 (2010 named for Conrad Moore, who owned the land Census); part-paid and volunteer fire upon which the town was laid out. department; elections held every four years on the second Tuesday in June; next election, June Class III city; population, 2,544 (2010 12, 2012. Census); elevation, 821 feet; volunteer fire department; elections held every two years on Hospital: Montgomery General. the first Tuesday in June; officials take office Active Banks: City National Bank, United July first; next election, June 4, 2013. Bank. Library: Public. Active banks: Summit Community Bank, Capon Valley Bank, First Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 721

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United Bank of West Virginia, Pendleton Building and loan associations: Norwest County Bank, Grant County Bank. “Poultry Financial, National City of Pennsylvania, First Capital” of West Virginia. Federal of Greene County. Federal savings and loan associations: United Bank Federal, Fed Mayor: Gary B. Stalnaker. One, F.A.

Recorder: Debra Hefner. Mayor: Jim Manilla.

Chief of Police: Steve Reckart. City Manager: Terrence R. Moore.

Recreation Director: Ken Molen. Clerk: Linda L. Little.

Superintendent, Water Department: Chief of Police: Edward Preston. Donald Eye. Fire Chief: Mark Caravasos. Planning Commission Chairman: Jeff Fraley. Police Judge: Stephen Higgins.

Members of Council: Roger Pratt; City Attorney: Stephen Fanok. Marshall Combs III; Steven Wilson; Carol Zuber; Doug Mongold. Members of Council: Jenny Selin; Bill Byrne; Ron Bane; Jim Manilla; Marti Superintendent, Street Department: Shamberger; Linda Herbst; Wes Nugent. Jesse Bierkamp. Firemen’s Civil Service Commission: Wastewater Department: Brian Wilson. Ashley Hardesty; Dan Hursh; Shane Mardis.

Municipal Judge: Larry Johnson. Police Civil Service Commission: Jerry Summers, Chairman; Ed Bodkin; Charles Building Inspector and Zoning Officer: Chico. Brian Wolfe. Planning Commission: Peter DeMasters, ______Chairman; Sam Loretta; Tim Stranko; William Wyant; William Petros; Mike Shuman; Carol Morgantown—Monongalia Pyles; Dr. Ken Martis; Jennifer Selin. County Board of Zoning Appeals: Bernie Bossio, Chairman; James Shaffer; Thomas Zip Code 26505 Shamberger; Leanne Carsoso; George Papandreas. (Magisterial District: Morgan). Board of Park and Recreation County seat. Founded 1766-1768 by Colonel Commissioners: Robert Clonch, Chairman; Zackquill Morgan, son of Morgan Morgan, on Frank Scafella; Nancy Ganz; Edward Cordwell; site of settlement established in 1758 by Ron Justice; Marti Shamberger; Denver Allen. Thomas Decker, who was killed by the Indians. Originally chartered in 1785. Location of West Morgantown Utility Board: J. T. Straface, Virginia University. Chairman; Frank Scafella; William Burton, Jr.; John Ganz; Ron Bane. Class II city; population, 29,669 (2010 Census); elevation, 892 to 1,296 feet; paid fire Library Board of Directors: Lyndell department; elections held every two years in Millecchia, Chairman; Larry Buchman; Linda odd-numbered years on the last Tuesday in Durfee; Robert Gallagher; Penny Pugh. April; next election, April 30, 2013. Parking Authority: Charles McEwuen, Hospitals: Monongalia General, West Virginia Chairman; Shane Mardis; Dennis Bidwell; University Hospitals, Inc., HealthSouth Jeanne Hagen; Linda Herbst. Regional Rehabilitation Hospital, Chestnut Ridge Hospital. Urban Landscape Commission: Kara Hurst, Chairman; Jessie Reckart; Kitty Lozier; Libraries: Morgantown Municipal Library; Nicole Panaccione; Julie Latanzi; Annette College of Law Library; West Virginia University Library. Tanner; Jerry Steketee; Anne Cumming; Bill MacDonald; Mark Wise; Jenny Selin; Marchetta Active banks: BB&T, Huntington Bank, Clear Maupin; Judith Kierig; (Vacancy). Mountain Bank, WesBanco, Citizens Bank of Morgantown, Fed One, First Exchange Bank, Historic Landmarks Commission: National City, United Bank. Rodney Pyles; Shannon Tinnell; Ralph Schmitt; Linda Herbst; Jeanne Grimm. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 722

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Building Code Appeals Board: Pat the first Monday in November in even- Esposito, Chairman; J. Vincent Bartling; Jim numbered years; officials take office January Pompili; Barry Dickson; Ron Eck. first; next election, November 6, 2012.

Personnel Board: Ken Fones-Wolf, Hospitals: Reynolds Memorial Hospital (Glen Chairman; Diana Rogers, Sarah Stevenson. Dale); Mound View Health Care, Inc. Library: City-County Library. Active banks: United Traffic Commission: Roy S. Nutter, National Bank of Moundsville, BB&T, Chairman, Margaret Roberts; Paul Steel; David WesBanco, Progressive. McKain; Chris Gluck; Jamie Lewis; Terry Hough; Mike Lantz; Wes Nugent; Chris Mayor: Dennis Wallace. Fletcher; Julie Thalman; Michael Wolfe; City Manager: (Vacancy). William Wyant. City Clerk: Sondra Hewitt. Ward Boundary Commission: Alan Donaldson, Chairman; Don West; David Treasurer: Karen Ankrom. Huffman; Robert Feathers; Steve Carpenter; Finance Director: Kay Goddard. William Ryan; Marca Paparozzi. Chief of Police: Thomas Mitchell. Building Commission: Terry Jones, Chairman; Marlene Savino; Gary Murdock. Fire Chief: Noel Clarke.

Transit Authority: Jenny Dinsmore, Office of Emergency Service Director: Chairman; Ron Bane; Denny Poluga; Hugh Tom Hart. Kierig; Asel Kennedy; David Flynn; (Vacancy). City Attorney: Tom White. Metropolitan Theatre Commission: Patricia Watson, Chairman; Richard McEwuen; City Engineer: James Schellhase. Keith Reed; Joshua Williamson; Tina Tallaksen; Members of Council: Eugene Saunders; Kacy Weidebusch; Connie Merandi; Marti Mark Simms; David Wood; Virginia DeWitt; Shamberger; (Vacancy). Paul Haynes; Denny Wallace; Philip Remke.

Museum Commission: Pamela Ball, Firemen’s Civil Service Commission: Chairman; Charlie Byrer; Christi Venham; David Oiler; Ken Rhodes. Richard McEwuen; Darryl DeGripp; Tim Terman; Jack Thompson; Wes Nugent; Jim Policemen’s Civil Service Commission: Snyder; Pamela Casto. Dale Coffield; Rebecca Cox; Michael O’Donnell, Sr. Sister Cities Commission: Pam Hodge, ______Chairman; George Lies; Elizabeth Finklea; Richard Fleisher; Peggy Myers-Smith; Rosalyn Becker; Betsy Pyle; Bill Byrne; Bethany Sypolt; John Gaddis. Incorporated 1911 by special charter enacted by West Virginia Legislature prior ______to 1936. Charter and copies on file in City Clerk’s Office. Acts of the Legislature Moundsville—Marshall 1911, Chap. 82; Amendments 1921, Chap. County 16; Amendments 1923, Chap. 76; Amendments 1931, Chap. 79; Amendments Zip Code 26041 1935, Chap. 136.

(Magisterial District: Washington). ______

County seat. Originally chartered in 1832. Name derived from Mammoth Grave Creek Mount Hope—Fayette County Indian Mound, 69 feet high and 900 feet in Zip Code 25880 circumference at the base, which is located in the city. Northern Regional Jail and (Magisterial District: Plateau). Correctional Facility and the Grave Creek Mound State Park located here. Built on a land grant by Commonwealth of Virginia to William Austin and Sarah Austin in Class III city; population, 9,318 (2010 1786. Land descent has been from Austin to Census); elevation, 689 feet; paid fire William Blake, 1796; Blake heirs to C. C. department; elections held on the Tuesday after Brown, 1857; Blake heirs to Luther Warner, Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 723

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1867; Blake heirs to J. H. McGinnis, 1870. The Hospital: Precious Years Care Center. Active town of Mount Hope was pioneered by Blake banks: People’s Bank of Mullens, First heirs and Brown, Warner and McGinnis Community Bank--Castle Rock. City swimming families. Named for an early county school that pool. had been called Mount Hope School. Mayor: Jon M. McKinney. Incorporated as Town of Mount Hope in 1895. Reincorporated as City of Mount Hope, City Clerk: Kimberly Woodrum. April 25, 1921, by Act of the Legislature. Police Chief: Norvell Ray Toler. Population, 1,414 (2010 Census); located on Fire Chief: Chad Cox. the Dunloup headwaters plateau; elevation, 1,740 feet. City Attorney: Todd Houck.

Headquarters of National Bureau of Mines. Municipal Judge: Thomas Daniels.

Active bank: Bank of Mt. Hope. Sanitary Board Director: Ken Eldridge.

City owns a new water processing plant and Members of Council: Reese Neely; Dave new 300,000 gallon storage tank sewage Ashley; Jerry Green; Jeff Bailey. treatment plant; is smallest city in county with a slum clearance low rent housing project of 135 ______units. Has paid volunteer fire department.

Elections held every four years on the second New Cumberland—Hancock Tuesday in May; officials take office June first; County next election, May 8, 2012. Zip Code 26047

Mayor: Michael Martin. (Magisterial Districts: Clay and Grant).

Recorder: Michael Kessinger. County seat. Laid out in 1839 by John Cuppy, City Auditor: Larry Misiti. but not incorporated until 1872. Formerly known as Cuppy Town and Vernon. Name Fire Chief: Shane Wheeler. changed to New Cumberland “out of deference to the wishes of the purchasers of land” at a lot Chief of Police: Tom Peal. sale conducted by John Cuppy.

Members of Council: Ernest Wickline; Population, 1,103 (2010 Census); elevation, Richard Smith; Charles Kidd; Steve Brown; 671 feet; 25-man volunteer fire department Kathleen Scott. with three trucks, three full-time and three part-time policemen; elections held every two ______years on the second Tuesday in May; officials take office July first; next election, May 14, 2013. Mullens—Wyoming County Mayor: Richard D. Blackwell. Zip Code 25882 City Clerk: Tamera M. Jenkins. (Magisterial District: Slab Fork). Fire Chief: Brandon Tibbs. Incorporated as a Town on September 17, 1912, and operated under a charter issued by Police Chief: Lester Skinner, Jr. the Circuit Court of Wyoming County. Named City Attorney: Kevin Pearl. for A. J. Mullins, who owned the land upon which the town is built, the incorporated name City Judge: John R. Ashcraft. being spelled “Mullens” through inadvertence. Building Inspector/Water/Sewage Board: An Act of the Legislature granting a charter Richard Blackwell, Building Inspector; Jack to the City of Mullens was passed February 22, Watson, Water/ Sewage Board. 1929. Utility Clerk: Dawn Harmon. Class IV city; population, 1,559 (2010 Census); elevation, 1,419 feet; volunteer fire Planning Commission: (Vacancy). department; elections for a mayor and four commissioners held every four years on the Parks and Recreation: Patty Binkoski; second Tuesday in June; officials take office Andrea Everly; John Everly. July first; next election, June 10, 2014. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 724

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Finance Director: William White. (Magisterial District: Magnolia).

Emergency Services Director: John Paul County seat. Originally chartered as Jones. Martinsville in 1838 by the General Assembly of Virginia and name changed to New Martinsville Swaney Memorial Library Board: Helen about 1846. Named for Presley Martin, one of Kirpan. the first settlers, owners of the land upon which the city is located. Present charter by Acts of Members of Council: Brian Webster; Jack the Legislature. Location of the Hydroelectric Watson; William White; Pat Jones; Shawn Plant. Marks; Judy Bartley. Class III city; population, 5,366 (2010 ______Census); elevation, 630 feet; volunteer fire department; public city library; four city parks Incorporated 1891 by special charter totaling 64 acres with two swimming pools (only enacted by West Virginia Legislature prior Lewis Wetzel Pool open this year); elections to 1936. Charter on file in City Building, held every two years with the Wetzel County New Cumberland. Acts of the Legislature primary elections. Next election, May 13, 2014. 1891, Chap. 48. Hospital: Wetzel County. Active banks: ______Peoples, WesBanco of New Martinsville, Progressive Bank. Federal savings and loan New Haven—Mason County association: Doolin Federal Savings and Loan Association. Zip Code 25265 Mayor: N. Keith Nelsen. (Magisterial District: Graham). Recorder-Treasurer: Bonnie S. Shannon. Incorporated in 1935 by Circuit Court. Named for New Haven, Connecticut, the home Chief of Police: Tim Cecil. city of the owners of the first coal mine opened Street Commissioner: Gary Willey. at that place. Formerly known as New London. Fire Chief: Larry Couch. Population, 1,560 (2010 Census); elections held every two years on the first Tuesday in City Attorney: Carolyn Flannery. June; officials take office July first; next election, June 4, 2013. Water and Sewer Superintendent: Patrick Durant. Active bank: City National Bank. Electric Utility General Manager: David Library: New Haven Library. L. White.

Mayor: George W. Gibbs. Hydroelectric Plant Manager: Chuck Stora. Recorder: Roberta Hysell. Members of Council: Linda Barth; Doris City Attorney: Craig Tatterson. Fannin; Kay Goddard; Steve Pallisco; Iris Fire Chief: Stephen Duncan. Isaacs; Chris Bachman.

Members of Council: Sarah Gibbs; James Police Civil Service Commission: David H. Elias; Jessica Howard; Kenneth Vickers; Benson, Chairman; Steve Hunt; William Amy Ferguson. Hornbrook. ______Planning Commission Chairman: Brian Feldmier.

Charter on file in Mason County Airport Authority Chairman: Ronald Courthouse, Point Pleasant, and Copies Schupbach. on file at Town Hall, New Haven. Parks and Recreation Director: Beverly ______Gibb.

New Martinsville—Wetzel Municipal Building Commission: Karl R. County Brookover, Chairman. ______Zip Code 26155 Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 725

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Newburg—Preston County Chief of Police: Brian Oxley. Fire Chief: Ernest Hedrick. Zip Code 26410 City Attorney: Richie Robb. (Magisterial District: Lyon). City Engineer: S-S Engineers. Incorporated in 1868. So named presumably because a “new” town was being established on City Treasurer: John Young. the Baltimore & Ohio railroad lines. Formerly known as “Stop 88”, the location being 88 miles Members of Council: Craig Matthews; west of Cumberland, Maryland. David Casebolt; Bill Javins; Bill Racer; Laurie Elkins; Brenda Taylor; Andy Shamblin. Population, 329 (2010 Census); elevation, 1,230 feet; Newburg volunteer fire department; Building Commissioner: Ron King. served by Mountaineer Ambulance Service and Newburg Water Works; elections held every two Firemen’s Civil Service Commission: years on the second Tuesday in June; officials Allen Weeks; Jack Jordan; Jim McKay. take office July first; next election, June 11, Policemen’s Civil Service Commission: 2013. John Montgomery; Greg Knight; Lesley Oxley. Health Facilities: Preston-Taylor Health Public Works: Alex Hill. Clinic; North Central Black Lung Clinic. Recreation Director: Ivan Meadows. Funeral Home: Bolyard Funeral Home. Sanitary Board Manager: Danny Lewis. Mayor: Edgar Fortney. ______Recorder: Melissa Bolyard.

Fire Chief: Chuck Smith. Charter and copies on file at Secretary of State Office, Capitol Building, City Attorney: Sheila Williams. Charleston; City of Nitro; Kanawha Members of Council: Bonnie Nelson; Mary County Courthouse and Putnam County Sheets; James Weaver; Rhonda Myers; Joyce Courthouse. Bolyard. ______North Hills—Wood County Nitro—Kanawha and Putnam Counties Zip Code 26104

Zip Code 25143 (Magisterial Districts: Parkersburg and Williams). Magisterial Districts: District III and Poca). Incorporated February 15, 1979. Located Incorporated in 1932 by Circuit Court. Name about three miles north of Parkersburg on selected by the United States Government Route 68. because of the establishment there during World War I of a large federal plant for the Population, 832 (2010 Census). manufacture of explosives. Elections held every two years on the Class III city; population, 7,178 (2010 Tuesday after the first Monday in November; Census); paid fire department; elections held next election, November 4, 2014. every four years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next election, Mayor: William Summers, Jr. June 14, 2016. Recorder: Bob High.

Active banks: Huntington Bank, People’s Fire Chief: Eric Taylor. Federal, Woodforest, Mountainview Credit Union. City Attorney: Steve Hardman.

Library: Nitro Public Library. Members of Council: Todd Nelson; Don Stemple; Kathy Schrader; Dr. Paul Kupferberg; Mayor: Dave Casebolt. Mark McCullough.

Recorder: Rita Cox. ______Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 726

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Northfork—McDowell County Members of Council: Barbara Gorby; Karen Phillips; Stephen Korn; William Zip Code 24868 Beninsosa; Robin Newhouse. ______(Magisterial District: North Elkin). Incorporated in 1901. So named because of its Oak Hill—Fayette County location on the north fork of Elkhorn River at its junction with the south fork. Towns of Zip Code 25901 Northfork and Clark were consolidated March 26, 1948. (Magisterial District: Plateau).

Population, 429 (2010 Census); elevation, Incorporated in 1905. So named on account of approximately 1,700 feet; volunteer fire the location under a spreading white oak tree at department; elections held every four years on nearby Hill Top, the first post office built in the second Tuesday in June; officials take office community, the name being suggested by reason July first; next election, June 14, 2016. of the association of the oak tree with the fact that the town is located on a hill. Active Bank: Pioneer Community Bank. Class III city; population, 7,730 (2010 Mayor: Marcus Wilkes. Census); volunteer fire department; elections held every four years on the second Tuesday in Recorder: Michelle Hargrave. June; officials take office July first; next election, June 9, 2015. Chief of Police: Kenneth Adams. Hospital: Plateau Medical Center. Active Fire Chief: James Rose. banks: Chase, BB&T, Fayette County National City Attorney: Sid Bell. Bank, Bank of Mt. Hope.

Members of Council: Latonia Foster; Mayor: Jon Lopez. Curtis Spencer; Rhonda Cox; Robert White; City Manager: William Hannabass. Mike Capparelli. Clerk-Treasurer: Damita Johnson. ______Chief of Police: Michael Whisman. Nutter Fort—Harrison County Fire Chief: Timothy Richardson. Attorney: William File III. Zip Code 26301 Police Judge: Wilbur Toney. (Magisterial District: Clark). Members of Council: Jeff Atha; Bruce Incorporated in 1923 by Circuit Court and Coleman; Dianna Smallwood; Fred W. named for Thomas Nutter, who built and Dickinson; Diana L. Janney; Mollie Ray; Tom maintained an old Indian fort at that place. Oxley.

Population, 1,593 (2010 Census); volunteer Street Department Superintendent: Paul fire department (one career fireman); elections Kirk. held every two years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next Police Civil Service Commission: Rev. election, June 11, 2013. Ralph Shupe; Jeremy Crosier; John Trimble.

Mayor: Nathan T. Rohrbough. Sanitary Board: Larry Dotson; Barney Stinnett; Bill Hannabass. Recorder: Sam Maxson. Sanitary Board Manager: William C. Treasurer/Clerk: Julia Foley. Hannabass.

Chief of Police: Ronald W. Godwin. Plant Operators: Mark Via; Steven Whitmore. Fire Chief: Jeremy Haddix. ______City Attorney: Smith, McMunn & Glover.

Municipal Judge: James K. Terango. Incorporated 1925 by special charter enacted by West Virginia Legislature prior Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 727

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to 1936. Charter on file with City Paden City—Tyler and Wetzel Manager; City Attorney and City Clerk’s Counties Office. Copies on file with Manager and Zip Code 26159 Mayor. Acts of Legislature Chap. 8, 1925; Chap. 8A: Home Rule, Ward System. (Magisterial Districts: Lincoln and ______Magnolia). Incorporated in 1916 by Circuit Court and Oakvale—Mercer County named for the family of Obediah Paden, an early settler. Zip Code 24739 Class III city; population, 2,633 (2010 (Magisterial District: East River). Census); volunteer fire department; elections Incorporated in 1907. Named for the held annually on the first Thursday in June; magnificent oak trees growing in this valley. officials take office July first; next election, Formerly known as Frenchville, Virginia. June 6, 2013.

Population, 121 (2010 Census); elevation, Library: Paden City Public Library. 1,712 feet; elections held every four years on the Mayor: John D. Hopkins. second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next election, June 11, 2013. Recorder: Tamra Billiter.

Mayor: Mary F. Nelson. Clerk: Julie Efaw.

Recorder/Treasurer: Shanae Bailey. Chief of Police: Michael Owens.

Members of Council: Jack Thomas; Fire Chief: James S. Richmond, Jr. Randolph Honaker; Ronnie Rumley; Paula Akers. Municipal Judge: Donnie Harris. ______City Attorney: Carolyn Flannery.

Oceana—Wyoming County Members of Council: Glenn Casteel; Larry Zip Code 24870 Potts; Tom Trader; Matt Ferrebee; Richard Wright, Jr.; Dan Probst. (Magisterial District: Oceana). ______Originally settled in 1797 by John Cooke. County seat of Wyoming County from 1850 to Parkersburg—Wood County 1907. Incorporated in 1947 by Circuit Court. Zip Code 26101 Population, 1,394 (2010 Census); elevation, 1,252 feet; volunteer fire department; elections (Magisterial District: Parkersburg). held every four years on second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next County seat. Originally chartered in 1820, election, June 14, 2014. and named for Alexander Parker, whose daughter, after his death, donated the land for Mayor: William Clark Manning. the site of the courthouse and county building in Wood County. Parkersburg was formerly Recorder: Jerry T. Cook. known as Newport and the name was changed to Parkersburg in 1810. Incorporated by an Act City Attorney: Lela Walker. of the Legislature, February 11, 1911. Situate Municipal Judge: Christine Morgan. at the Little Kanawha and Ohio Rivers.

Chief of Police: Jeffrey S. Barlow. Location of WVU-Parkersburg, Ohio Valley University, Mountain State College, The Fire Chief: Arvin Drake. Caperton Center and three high schools.

Members of Council: Bryant Whisenant; Near Blennerhassett Island on the Ohio Michael Fleshman; Don Morgan; Jim Cook; River, there are two major parks and Jesse Womack. neighborhood parks, Point Park on the Ohio River, a waterslide and public and private boat ______docks. The city is protected by the Parkersburg flood wall which was constructed during the Charter on file at Circuit Clerk’s Office, period of March, 1946, to April, 1950. Pineville. Class II city; population, 31,492 (2010 ______Census); elevation 616 feet; paid fire Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 728

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department and police department. Two Housing Inspector: Ed Bonar. television stations. The Parkersburg News and Sentinel. Serviced by the Mid Ohio Valley Code Administration Director: Gary Airport. Headquarters for the Bureau of the Moss. Public Debt, Department of the Treasury. Utility Board Superintendent: Eric Under charter, adopted October 7, 1969, the Bennett. city adopted the Strong Mayor form of Members of Council: Nancy Wilcox; government. First general election was held Sharon Lynch; Brad Kimes; John Sandy; July 28, 1970. Elections held every four years; Sharyn Tallman; Mike Reynolds; Tom Joyce; primary on second Tuesday in May; general John Rockhold III; James Reed. elections held first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, coinciding with the Mid-Ohio Valley Health Department: county election. Officials assume office on the Richard Wittberg, Director. first Monday in January of the year immediately following their election. Next Firemen’s Civil Service Commission: general election is November 6, 2012. Jerry Shaw; Steve Brown, Jr.; Aaron Boone.

Hospitals: Camden Clark Medical Center; Policemen’s Civil Service Commission: PARS Spine and Brain Center. Robert Campbell; Doug Kreinik; Jack Hunley.

Library: Parkersburg and Wood County ______Public Library.

Active banks: Community Bank of City charter and ordinances on file at Parkersburg, BB&T, WesBanco, United City Clerk’s Office, second floor, National Bank, Williamstown National Bank, Municipal Building, One Government Huntington Banks, Peoples Bank. Federal Square, and on-line at www.parkersburg- Savings and Loan Association: Doolin Federal wv.com. Savings and Loan Association. Several credit ______unions. Parkersburg is also home to The Parkersburg Parsons—Tucker County Art Center, The Smoot Theater, Parkersburg Actor’s Guild, Blennerhassett Museum, Oil and Zip Code 26287 Gas Museum, Cooper Log Cabin, Historic Cook (Magisterial District: Black Fork). House. County seat. Incorporated in 1893 and named Festivals throughout the year include the for Ward Parsons, who owned the land upon Parkersburg Homecoming, the Parkersburg which the town is built. Half Marathon, the Honey Festival, the Multi- Cultural Festival and Taste of Parkersburg. Here (Corrick’s Ford Battlefield), on July 13, Bicentennial Celebration, 2010. 1861, was fought one of the first land battles of the Civil War. General Robert S. Garnett, of the Mayor: Robert D. Newell. Confederate forces, was killed during the battle, City Clerk: Connie Shaffer. the first officer to meet death during the Civil War. Chief of Police: Joseph E. Martin. Population, 1,485 (2010 Census); elevation, Fire Chief: Eric Taylor. 1,649 feet; volunteer fire department; elections held every two years on the second Tuesday in City Attorney: Joseph T. Santer. June; officials take office July first; next Assistant City Attorney: Robert Tebay III. election, June 10, 2014.

Municipal Judge: William Crichton V. Hospital: Parsons Direct Care.

Public Works Director: Jerry Edman. Active banks: Mountain Valley Bank, N.A., Citizens Bank of West Virginia, Inc. Development Director: Ann Conageski. Industries: Kingsford Manufacturing Finance Director: Angie Smith. Company.

City Engineer: Justin Smith. Mayor: Dorothy L. Judy.

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Administrator-Treasurer: Jason L. Myers. Court Clerk: Tina Lewis.

Assistant Administrator/Treasurer: Public Works Director: Jack Delawder. Madeline C. Hebb. Sanitary Board Director: Jack Delawder. Attorney: Patrick A. Nichols. Water Board Director: Jack Delawder. Municipal Judge: Linda B. Hockman. Members of Council: Susie Fletcher; Police Chief: Edward C. Surguy, Sr. Eldridge Kerns; David Clark; Joshua Miller; Robert Rowzee. Fire Chief: Charles D. Lloyd. ______Public Works Superintendent: Marshall D. Parsons. Incorporated 1891 by Circuit Court of Water/Wastewater Department Chief Morgan County. Charter and copies on file Operator: Franklin L. White. in Office of Circuit Clerk, Berkeley Springs. Members of Council: Timothy L. Auvil; David E. Gidley, Sr.; David K. Greenlief, Sr.; ______Melissa D. Jones.

______Pax—Fayette County Zip Code 25904 Incorporated 1907 by special charter enacted by West Virginia Legislature prior (Magisterial District: Plateau). to 1936. Charter on file at Mayor’s Office, Incorporated in 1920. Named for the stream, City Building, Parsons. Acts of the Pack Branch, which in turn was given the Legislature, 1907, p. 57. surname of hunters who early in the history of ______the community camped near the present location of the town.

Paw Paw—Morgan County Host of the “Pax Town Reunion” every two years. Zip Code 25434 Population, 167 (2010 Census); elevation, (Magisterial District: Cacapon). 1,639 feet; volunteer fire department; elections held every four years on the second Tuesday in Incorporated April 8, 1891. Name derived June; officials take office July first; next from the paw paw, a wild fruit which formerly election, June 9, 2015. grew in abundance throughout this section of the state. Mayor: Jeremiah Johnson.

Population, 508 (2010 Census); elevation, 534 Recorder: Rachael Ramsey. feet; elections held every two years on the first Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; City Clerk: Cindy Wingrove. next election, June 4, 2013. Fire Chief: Shawn Ellison. Mayor: Alton Wolfe, Jr. City Attorney: John Wooton. City Manager: Tina Lewis. Sanitary/Water Board Director: William Recorder: Regina Brack. Bailey.

Finance Director: Tina Lewis. Members of Council: Janet Honaker; James Williams; William Hughes; Howard City Clerk: Tina Lewis. Hughes; Shirley Roberts.

Human Resource Director: Tina Lewis. Water and Sewer Superintendant: William Bailey. Police Chief: Timothy Harthun. ______Fire Chief: Steven Moreland. Municipal Judge: James Dawson. Pennsboro—Ritchie County

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(Magisterial District: Northeast). Active banks: Grant County Bank, Pendleton County Bank, Summit Community Bank. Incorporated in 1885 as a town and Hospital: Grant Memorial Hospital. incorporated as a city in 1915 by an Act of the Legislature. Named for a Baltimore surveyor Mayor: Gary A. Michael. named Penn, who made the first town plat. Location of “The Old Stone House”, built about Recorder: Sarah J. Moomau. 1810, a well known tavern in stage coach days. City Clerk: Sheila VanMeter. The city owns a 374-acre City Park which has Acting Police Chief: John Shockey. a 12-acre lake (Tracy) and a 10-acre reservoir. Fire Chief: Wes Alt. The town has a community-built and -owned gymnasium; the C. R. “Pop” Sullivan municipal City Attorney: J. Paul Geary II. park which features a lighted outdoor basketball court; Myles Stadium with a 1/4- Members of Council: Alvin Rumer; Bruce mile paved walking track and two fields for Hyre, Jr.; Michael Feaster; Donnalie Hope; John softball and Little League, tennis courts and a Paul Hott II. children’s play area; a library; weekly newspaper; an osteopath and a medical clinic ______housing a physician and dentist; an industrial park housing Simonton Windows (manufacturer Peterstown—Monroe County of vinyl windows). Zip Code 24963 Population, 1,171 (2010 Census); elevation, 861 feet; volunteer fire department; elections (Magisterial District: Red Sulphur). held every two years with the state primary Chartered in 1803 by the Virginia General elections; officials take office July first; next Assembly. Incorporated in 1892 by Circuit election, May 13, 2014. Court. Named for Christian Peters, Active banks: West Union Bank, Union Revolutionary soldier, who settled nearby and Bank, Inc. founded the town shortly after the Revolutionary War. Mayor: Mary Jane Allen. Population, 653 (2010 Census); elevation, City Clerk: Rebecca Talkington. 1,612 feet; volunteer fire and rescue squad; elections held every four years on the second Billing Clerk: Joyce Cain. Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; City Attorney: H. Wyatt Hanna III. next election, June 11, 2013.

Fire Chief: James R. Robinson. Active bank: First National Bank.

Municipal Judge: Irvin D. Talkington. Mayor: Scott Boggess.

Chief of Police: Jeffrey T. Kennedy. Recorder: Michael Lively.

Members of Council: James Props; Vance Clerk-Treasurer: Melissa Raines. Weekley; Donnie Jones; (Vacancy). Fire Chief: Jerry Brown. ______Members of Council: Burke Porterfield; William S. Phipps; Christopher Whitt; James Petersburg—Grant County Maness; James R. Holliday.

Zip Code 26847 ______

(Magisterial District: Milroy). Philippi—Barbour County County seat. Founded circa 1745 by Jacob Zip Code 26416 Peterson, who owned the first merchandising store. Incorporated 1910. (Magisterial Districts: West and North).

Class III city; population, 2,467 (2010 County seat. Originally chartered in 1844 Census); elevation, 984 feet; volunteer fire and named for Philip Pendleton Barbour, department; election held every two years on Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the the first Tuesday after the first Monday in United States, 1836-1841. Incorporated by Act June; officials take office July first; next of the Legislature, February 22, 1905, Chapter election, June 4, 2013. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 731

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13; amended by Chapter 7, 1907 Acts; amended Fire Chief: Tim Jackson. 1909 Acts, by Chapter 11; amended by 1915 Acts and again amended by 1923 Acts; Chapter Chief of Police: Ralph Rice. 71, Section 2. Members of Council: Paula Boggs; Ray Here was fought the first land battle of the Hall; Freda Fisher; Grace Russell; Bob Fike. Civil War, the Federal troops on June 3, 1861, ______commanded by General B. F. Kelley, surprising and routing the Confederate forces under Colonel George A. Porterfield. Location of Pine Grove—Wetzel County Alderson-Broaddus College. Zip Code 26419 Class III city; population, 2,966 (2010 Census); elevation, 1,311 feet; volunteer fire (Magisterial District: Grant). department; nonpartisan elections held every Incorporated in 1907 by Circuit Court. So four years on the third Tuesday in May; officials named on account of the location there at the take office July first; next election, May 17, time of a large pine thicket. 2016. Population, 552 (2010 Census); elevation, 713 Mayor: Charles J. Mouser. feet; volunteer fire department; nonpartisan City Clerk: Tammy Stemple. elections held every two years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; City Manager: Karen N. Weaver. next election, June 11, 2013.

Chief of Police: Mitchel Payne. Mayor: David Barr.

Fire Chief: John Green. Recorder: Kimberly J. Bates.

City Solicitor: John Ashcom. Fire Chief: Lindsey Greathouse.

Director of Public Works: (Vacancy). City Attorney: Gary Rymer.

Members of Council: Barbara Bryan; Sanitary Board Director: David Barr. Terrence Boyd; Edward Larry; John Green. Water Board Director: Tom Dulaney. ______Members of Council: Tom Dulaney; David Williams; Eva A. Adams; John Johnston; Bobby Charter on file at City Clerk’s Office, Adams. Philippi. ______Pineville—Wyoming County Piedmont—Mineral County Zip Code 24874 Zip Code 26750 (Magisterial District: Center). (Magisterial District: Piedmont). County seat. Incorporated in 1907, Home Rule. Originally chartered in 1856. So named So named on account of the location at the because of its location at the foot of the original site, when selected, of a black or pitch mountain, Allegheny Front, which is known to pine second growth forest. travelers on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad as “the seventeen mile grade”. Population, 668 (2010 Census); elevation, 1,323 feet; volunteer fire department; Population, 876 (2010 Census); elevation, 871 municipally owned water system; elections held feet; volunteer fire department; elections held every four years on the second Tuesday in June; every two years on the second Monday in May; officials take office July first; next election, officials take office June first; next election, June 10, 2014. May 13, 2013. Active banks: First Community Bank, First Active bank: First United. Public library. Century Bank, Pineville Branch of the Peoples Bank of Mullens. Mayor: Lester Clifford. Mayor: Tim Ellison. Clerk: Betsy Rice. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 732

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Recorder-Treasurer: Victoria Clay. City Clerk: Rebecca Rennie-Teets.

Chief of Police: Roger L. Snow. City Attorney: J. Scott Tharp.

City Attorney: Charles B. Mullins II. Members of Council: Jeff Boyles; Chad Nuzum; Charles Ledsome; Margaret Garrett; Fire Chief: Jack Lambert. Gary Boyles; Keith Holt.

Members of Council: Clay Cook; Jack Bias; ______Linda Goode Phillips; Robert Warner; Mike Clay. Charter enacted July 1, 1996, on file at ______the Marion County Clerk’s office; State Capitol in Charleston; and copies on file Pleasant Valley—Marion at the City Clerk’s office, 2340 Kingmont County Rd., Pleasant Valley, 26554.

Zip Code 26554 ______

(Magisterial District: Union). Poca—Putnam County Incorporated on November 1, 1995, by the Marion County Court and by popular vote of Zip Code 25159 the residents in an election held on October 18, (Magisterial District: Poca). 1995. Incorporation included four communities: Benton’s Ferry, Kingmont, Incorporated February, 1958. Population, 974 Millersville and Pleasant Valley. (2010 Census).

The boundaries on three sides of the city are Elections held every four years on the second the Monongahela and the Tygart rivers. The Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; rivers are available for water sports and next election, June 9, 2015. recreation. The city is served by Interstate 79 which passes through the center of the city Mayor: Jim Coruthers. with three exits, 133, 135 and 136. Recorder: Carroll Westfall. Principal industries are: Ruskin Corporation; West Virginia Electric Corp.; Clerk: Jolita Raine. Francis Engineering; Superior Industrial Police Chief: William Seanze. Laundries; MED Plus; Mining Dynamics; United Parcel Service; O. C. Cluss, Inc.; TMC Fire Chief: Earl Conrad. Technologies, Inc.; Soles Electric Corp.; Winners Choice; Myers Industrial Complex; Sanitary Board: Jim Caruthers; Donna DISH Network; Hendershot Heating and Massey, Secretary. Cooling; Valley Worlds of Fun; Middletown Members of Council: Brian Hutchison; Tractor; John Deere. Dale Parkins; Jolita Raine; Lawrence Echols; Citizens are served by seven churches, William Jones. Marion County Y.W.C.A., Kingmont Post Librarian: Verna Carr. Office, Valley Volunteer Fire Department, Kingmill Valley Public Service District, ______Fairmont Municipal Airport, East Fairmont High School, Pleasant Valley Elementary School, Youth Academy, LLC, FMC (Dialysis Point Pleasant—Mason Center) and three motels, Comfort Inn, Super County 8, Holiday Inn Express; two gas stations; Zip Code 25550 several food outlets including Cracker Barrel and Fazoli’s. (Magisterial District: Lewis).

Class III city; population, 3,149 (2010 County seat. Originally chartered in 1794 and Census); elevation, 1,000 feet; area, 3.38 incorporated 1833. Named after Camp Point square miles; elections held every two years on Pleasant, established there by General Andrew the second Tuesday in June; officials take Lewis at the time of his famous battle with the office July first; next election, June 10, 2014. Indians in 1774. Built on the site of the bloodiest battle ever fought between the Indians Mayor: Barbara Metcalfe. and white settlers: The Battle of Point Pleasant, Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 733

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October 10, 1774, the chief event of Dunmore’s out a patent for acreage that included the site War, a forerunner of the American Revolution. of the present town. Many Indian relics have Location of Tu-Endie-Wei Point Pleasant Battle been unearthed in and around the town, Monument State Park. Burial place of indicating that in an earlier age Indians Cornstalk, Indian Chieftain, and Ann Bailey, roamed the land bordering Paint Creek and celebrated in annals of the border. the south bank of the Great Kanawha River.

Class III city; population, 4,350 (2010 In the 1840s, Dickinson Morris, grandson of Census); elevation, 569 feet; volunteer fire Kanawha Valley pioneer William Morris, department; elections held every four years in purchased the land from Jones. Morris later May; officials take office July first; next divided his property into lots and streets so a election, May 2016. town could be established. He designated one lot to be used as a public square as long as it Library: Mason County. City Parks: Krodel benefitted the townspeople. The property Park, Harmon Park, Gunn Park, River Front continues to be used for town activities which Park, Medal of Honor Park, Fort Randolph. are held in Pratt’s historic Old Town Hall, Festivals: Point Pleasant Regatta, Mason built on the town square in 1875. County Fair, Mothman Festival, Battle Days, Krodel Christmas Fantasy Light Show. Active Originally called Clifton, then Dego, the banks: Ohio Valley Bank, Peoples Bank, City town adopted the surname of Charles K. Pratt National Bank and Farmers Bank. Hospital: at the turn of the century. Pratt’s New York Pleasant Valley. company owned timber and mineral rights in the area and maintained offices in the town. Museums: Point Pleasant River Museum, On June 4, 1905, Pratt was incorporated. State Farm Museum, Mothman Museum. Gracious old homes are scattered Mayor: Brian L. Billings. throughout the town, each contributing significantly to Pratt’s rich heritage. The City Clerk/Treasurer: Amber Tatterson. town’s only church, Old Kanawha Baptist, Chief of Police: Paul Watterson. celebrated the 200th anniversary of its founding in 1993. In the hillside cemetery, City Attorney: Ronald F. Stein. weathered stones mark graves that date as far back as 1835. Many of today’s residents can Street Commissioner: Ernest “Willie” Call. trace their ancestry to the town’s pre-Civil City Inspector: Jeremy Bryant. War settlers.

Members of Council: Janet Hartley; During the mine war of 1912-13, the little Charles Towner; Doug Tawney; Robert C. town was thrust into national prominence Doeffinger; Allen Moran; Kieth Sargent; Elaine when Mary Harris Jones (“Mother” Jones), G. Hunt; Linda W. Smith; Robert Rulen; Rick fiery labor organizer, was imprisoned in Pratt. Simpkins. Tents of the state militia sent to enforce martial law dotted the open fields near the City Housing Authority: John H. Sauer; boardinghouse where “Mother” Jones was Stevenson Carpenter; Charles Garland; Jane kept. When the plight of the well-known Martin; Dr. Stephen K. Rerych. agitator was telegraphed around the country, the United States Congress was forced to take ______action.

Focusing on the town’s role in the history of The City of Point Pleasant was unionization, the Pratt Old Town Hall originally granted a Charter by the Association commissioned a play to be written Legislature of West Virginia on February about “Mother” Jones during her confinement 16, 1915 (Chapter 19, Senate Bill 311). in the town. The play is presented annually during the Pratt Fall Festival. ______Because of its historic importance, a part of the town was designated a historic district in Pratt—Kanawha County 1984 and placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Zip Code 25162 Population, 602 (2010 Census); volunteer (Magisterial District: District I). fire department; elections held every two years on the second Tuesday in June; officials Pratt’s recorded history dates to 1792 when take office July first; next election, June 11, John Jones, a Revolutionary War veteran, took 2013. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 734

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Mayor: Gary A. Fields. Library: David Shumate.

Recorder: Lois Hudge McPhil. Railroad Museum Director: Connie Shumate. Fire Chief: Timmy Walker. Recreation Center Director: Amanda Police Chief: Eric L. Eagle. McCabe.

Members of Council: Kaye Ford; Charlotte Planning and Development: Bill Buzzo, Calhun; Rose Perry; John McPhail; Jeff Davis; Jr. Chris Tincher. Code Enforcement Director: Bill Buzzo, ______Jr.

Princeton—Mercer County Director of Finance: Kelly Davis. Municipal Judge: Kenneth Clay. Zip Code 24740 Zoning Board of Appeals: William H. (Magisterial District: East River). Draper III, Chair; Joyce Kephart; Derrick County Seat. Incorporated February 20, 1909. Lefler; Todd Boggess, Vice Chair; Robert E. Named for Princeton, New Jersey, where in the Allen. battle of 1777, during the Revolutionary War, Princeton Sanitary Board: Patricia General Hugh Mercer, Fredericksburg Wilson, Chair; Kevin Graham; Charles Stores. (Virginia) apothecary, was killed. Princeton Board of Parks and Class III city; population, 6,432 (2010 Recreation Commissioners: Ed Whittaker, Census); elevation, 2,449 feet; paid fire Chairman; Millie Hedrick; Jimm Norman; department; elections held every two years on Becky Carter; John Wilborn. the first Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next election, June 4, 2013. Policemen’s Civil Service Commission: Charles Kassay, Chairman; Charlie Carter; Home of the Princeton Rays, Appalachian Randall D. Price. Rookie Baseball League franchise of the Tampa Bay Rays; Princeton Railroad Museum; Firemen’s Civil Service Commission: Mathena Cultural Center. Kelli L. Harshbarger, Chair; Kathy Morris; John M. Morris. Hospitals: Princeton Community Hospital, Southern Hills Regional Rehabilitation Princeton Planning Commission: Ted Hospital. Library: Princeton Public Library. Boggess; Patricia Wilson; Bob Lohr; Peggy Active banks: BB&T, First Community Bank- Johnson; Brenda Miller; John Hickman; Vic Princeton (two locations), First Century Bank Allen; Marshall Lytton. of Bluefield-Princeton Branch, MCNB, New Peoples Bank. Board of Library Directors of Princeton: Robert L. Schumacher, President; Gina Boggess; Martha Draper; Roger Kimble; (Vacancy). Mayor: Patricia W. Wilson. ______Clerk: Kenneth E. Clay.

City Manager: Wayne C. Shumate. Pullman—Ritchie County Chief of Police: P. V. Powell. Zip Code 26421 City Attorney: Paul Cassell. (Magisterial District: Union). Fire Chief: Shawn Vest. Incorporated in 1901. Named for George M. Members of Council: Dewey Russell; Tim Pullman, of Chicago, famous as the Ealy; Chris Stanley; Marshall Lytton; John manufacturer of pullmans, then commonly Wilborn; James Norman. known as “palace cars”.

Sanitary Board Director: Mike Saffel. Population, 154 (2010 Census); elevation, 844 feet; elections held every two years on the Zoning Official: Bill Buzzo, Jr. second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next election, June 11, 2013. Director of Public Works: Kenneth Rose. Mayor: Jeanie Topper. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 735

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Recorder: Michelle Stutler. Mayor: Andrea Pendleton, first woman mayor of Rainelle. Members of Council: Mike Leggett; Everett Newman; Todd Adams; George Topper; Special Assistant to the Mayor: Joan C. Glenna Amos. Browning.

______Recorder: Danny Milam.

Chief of Police: J. P. Stevens. Quinwood—Greenbrier County Town Clerk: Sandra Hanna.

Zip Code 25981 Water Clerk: Joey Lilly.

(Magisterial District: Meadow Bluff). Fire Chief: Shawn Wolford.

Laid out in 1921, but not incorporated until Municipal Judge: Earl Cook. 1947. Named for Quin Morton and Walter Wood, formerly prominent coal operators in this Municipal Court Clerk: Deborah McCall. section of the state. Members of Town Council: Ron Population, 435 (2010 Census); elevation, Fleshman; Gary Harris; Michael Neal; David 3,013 feet; volunteer fire department; paid Spitzer; Monica S. Venable. ambulance service; community center; park; ______community library; elections held every two years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next election, June 11, Charter on file at Circuit Court, 2013. Lewisburg, West Virginia.

Mayor: Willard Eugene Wright. ______

Recorder: Deborah Lynne Rogers. Ranson—Jefferson County Members of Council: Charlotte Bennett; Cassandra Baker; Michael Nutter; Larry Zip Code 25438 Nutter; Brenda Sizemore. (Magisterial District: Charles Town). ______Incorporated in 1910 and named for the members of the Ranson family, who owned the Rainelle—Greenbrier County land upon which the town was built.

Zip Code 25962 Class III city; population, 4,440 (2010 Census); elections held every three years on the (Magisterial District: Western). first Tuesday in June; officials take office July Located on the Midland Trail Scenic Highway first; next election, June 4, 2013. (U. S. 60) and junction of State Road 20. Active bank: BB&T. Hospital: WVU-Hospital Named for brothers Thomas W. and John Raine East. and Thomas’ daughter Nellie. Raine brothers were prominent lumber manufacturers. From Mayor: A. David Hamill. 1910 to 1970, Rainelle was home of the largest hardwood sawmill in the world. City Recorder: Tony Braithwaite.

Originally chartered April 25, 1913, by City Treasurer: Chris Bontoft. Circuit Court. Consolidated with the town of East Rainelle on July 1, 1969, and now City Manager: P. David Mills. operating under charter granted to East Chief of Police: William Roper. Rainelle by Circuit Court in 1921. City Attorney: Andrew Blake, Esq. Population, 1,505 (2010 Census). Elevation: 2,425 feet; volunteer fire department; elections Members of Council: Duke Pierson; Scott held every two years on second Tuesday in Coulter; Donnie Haines; David Cheshire; June; officials take office July first; next Debbie McClure. election, June 11, 2013. Police Judge: John Dorsey. Active banks: City National Bank, Summit Community Bank. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 736

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Policemen’s Civil Service Commission: ______Tylisa Beveridge; Mike Hoffmaster; Samantha Mullens. Incorporated 1852 by State of Virginia prior to formation of West Virginia. Planning Commission: Tony Grant; Mike Charter and copies on file at Office of City Anderson; Chris Gaskins; Donnie Haines; Chad Clerk, Ravenswood. Shade. ______Board of Zoning Adjustments: Sue Lawton; George Rutherford; Amy Boyd; Sarah Reedsville—Preston County Custer; Ruth Dillow. Zip Code 26547 Board of Appeals: Sue Lawton; George Rutherford; Amy Boyd; Sarah Custer; Ruth (Magisterial District: Valley). Dillow. Incorporated in 1906 and named for James Building Commission: Pete Breeden; Reed, of Monongalia County, formerly of Shannon Reed; Michelle Braithwaite. Berkeley County, owner of the land upon which the larger part of the town is laid out. Convention of Visitors Bureau: Nelson Parkinson; Tony Braithwaite; Sarah Custer; Population, 593 (2010 Census); elections held Dave Cheshire; Tara Perry. every four years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next election, Parks and Recreation Commission: Duke June 11, 2013. Pierson; Scott Coulter; William Roper; Gene Taylor; Jimmy Williams. Mayor: James B. Wagner.

______Municipal Judge: James B. Wagner. Recorder: (Vacancy). Ravenswood—Jackson County Town Clerk: Danielle Spiker. Zip Code 26164 Fire Chief: Scott Spiker. (Magisterial District: Ravenswood). Chief of Police: (Vacancy). Originally chartered in 1852. Named after Allan, Lord of Ravenswood, in Sir Walter Scott’s Members of Council: Gregory Sypolt; “The Bride of Lammermoor”. Pindle Roth; Stephen Swank; Robert Soccorsi.

Class III city; population, 3,876 (2010 ______Census); elevation, 586 feet; volunteer fire department; elections held every four years on Reedy—Roane County the second Tuesday in May; officials take office July first; next election, May 10, 2016. Zip Code 25270

Library: Branch of Jackson County Library. (Magisterial District: Reedy).

Active banks: BB&T; Wesbanco-Ravenswood, Incorporated February 28, 1894. Named for Premier Bank, First Federal Savings and Loan Reedy Creek, which in turn was so named by Association, Ravenswood Federal Credit Union. William Beauchamp, first settler, because of the numerous reeds that grew on the stream at that Mayor: J. Michael Ihle. time. Formerly known as Three Forks of Reedy. First post office in Roane County, January 4, Recorder: Kathryn R. Garrett. 1853. New home for many Amish farmers. Clerk-City Treasurer: Kimberly Benson. Class IV town; population, 182 (2010 Chief of Police: Lance Morrison. Census); elevation, 676 feet; elections held every four years on the first Tuesday in June; Fire Chief: Craig Blackhurst. officials take office July first; next election, June 2, 2015. City Attorney: Stephen W. Cogar. Mayor: Frank Vannoy. Police Judge: Alvin Lawson. Recorder: Neri McKenzie. Members of Council: Jared Bloxton; Gary Cross; Judy Wiseman; Mike Kelly; Don Titus. Fire Chief: George Callow. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 737

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Members of Council: Larry Tucker; Police Judge: Dixie Cornell. Mitchell McCumbers; Andrew McKenzie; Steven Mullins; Donna Pitts. Chief of Police: Larry J. Tinney.

______Superintendent of Streets: Charles D. Madden.

Rhodell—Raleigh County Water, Sewer and Sanitation: (Vacancy).

Zip Code 25915 Fire Chief: Tom Coleman.

(Magisterial District: Slab Fork). City Attorney: Callaghan & Callaghan.

Laid out in 1907, but not incorporated until Librarian: Robin Bartlett. 1937 by Circuit Court. Named for I. J. Rhodes, one of the founders. Formerly known as City Health Officer: Clemente Diaz, M.D. Rhodesdale. Members of Council: James Vannoy; Britt Population, 173 (2010 Census); elections held Nicholas; Gladys Juergens; Ralph Brown; Ann every four years on the second Tuesday in June; Spencer; J. C. Callaghan; Vickie Hinkle; William officals take office July first; next election, June Starcher. 11, 2013. ______Mayor: Cal Powell. Ridgeley—Mineral County Recorder: Patricia Fortner. Zip Code 26753 Municipal Court Judge: Patricia Fortner. (Magisterial District: Frankfort). Council Members: Edward Cunningham; Pat Farruggia; Rick Huff; Andrea Lilly; Pat Cox. Incorporated November 28, 1914, by Circuit Court. Named for the former owners of the land ______upon which the town is laid out. Formerly known as St. Clairsville. Charter and copies on file at Raleigh Population, 675 (2010 Census); volunteer fire County Courthouse. department; elections held every two years on ______the second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next election, June 11, 2013.

Richwood—Nicholas County Mayor: James L. Twigg.

Zip Code 26261 Police Chief: Michael Miller.

(Magisterial District: Beaver). Fire Chief: Rodney Twyman.

Incorporated November 13, 1901, by Circuit Members of Council: Thomas Hedrick; Court. Named because of the wealth of natural Lynn Carr; Donald McFarland; Mark Jones; resources surrounding the town site. Tanya Ryan.

Chartered by state effective March 23, 1921, ______as a Class III city; population, 2,051 (2010 Census); elevation, 2,193 feet; volunteer fire Ripley—Jackson County department; elections held every two years on the second Tuesday in June for some council Zip Code 25271 terms and every four years for mayor, recorder and remaining council terms; officials take (Magisterial District: Ripley). office July first; next election, June 10, 2014. County seat. Originally chartered in 1832 and Nursing home: Nicholas County Health Care named in honor of Harry Ripley, who drowned Center. Public library. in Big Mill Creek in 1830.

Active bank: First Community Bank. Class III city; population, 3,252 (2010 Census); elevation, 615 feet; volunteer fire Mayor: Robert Johnson. department; elections held every four years; officials take office July first; next election, May Recorder: Ronnie G. Bragg. 2014. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 738

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Library: Jackson County, Branch of Alpha Fire Chief: Justin Stover. Regional Library. Morad Hughes Health Clinic; Westbrook Health Services. Hospital: Jackson City Attorney: Mary Sansalone. General Hospital. City Water Inspector: Trevor Waters. Active banks: City National Bank, United City Planner: David Sapp. Bank, BB&T, Premier Bank and Citizens First. Savings and loan associations: National Farm Members of Council: Mark Dorsey; Bill Loan Association, Ravenswood Federal Credit Newhouse; Lauronza Harmon; Donald Union. Edwards.

Mayor: Carolyn L. Rader. ______Recorder: David S. Casto. Romney—Hampshire County Treasurer-Clerk: Tom Armstead. Zip Code 26757 Chief of Police: Raymond L. Fridley. (Magisterial District: Romney). Fire Chief: David Brubaker. County seat. Declared to be the oldest town City Attorney: Kevin Harris. in the State. Chartered in 1762 by State of Virginia. Established at the site of Fort Pearsall, Municipal Judge: William L. Rectenwald. built in 1756 for defense against the Indians. Clerk: Deborah Scarbrough. Named by Lord Fairfax for the town of Romney, one of the Cinque Ports in Southern England. Planning and Development: Roger Location of West Virginia School for the Deaf Anderson. and Blind.

Public Works Director: Timothy King. Population, 1,848 (2010 Census); elevation, 731 feet; volunteer fire department; USARC Sanitary/Water Board Director: Carolyn Armory; elections held every four years on the Rader. second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next election, June 11, 2013. Human Resource Director: Thomas Armstead. Library: Hampshire County Public Library. Active banks: Bank of Romney, First National Members of Council: Ed Moore; Russ Bank. Hospital: Hampshire Memorial. Industry: Vannoy; Bryan Thompson; John McGinley; Hampshire Manufacturing; Phoenix Mechano; Carolyn Waybright; David Casto. Gourmet Central. ______Mayor: Daniel Hileman.

Rivesville—Marion County City Manager: Eileen Johnson.

Zip Code 26588 Recorder: Iliff Maphis.

(Magisterial District: Paw Paw). City Clerk: Betty C. Colebank.

Established in 1837, but not incorporated Chief of Police: Donald Eugene See. until April 22, 1875, by Circuit Court. Named in honor of William Cabell Reeves, a Virginian Fire Chief: J. T. Parsons. of great prominence at that time, later United Municipal Judge: Robert Johnson. States Senator from the state. City Attorney: Cathe Moreland. Population, 934 (2010 Census); elevation, 881 feet; volunteer fire department; elections held Court Clerk: Stacey Lambert. every two years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next election, Sanitary Board Director: Duncan Holt. June 11, 2013. Water Board Director: Tim Anderson. Mayor: James Hershman. Members of Council: James Rinker; Recorder: Barbara Beatty. Dennis Morris; Timothy Anderson; Duncan Hott; Ronald Diciolla; Holly Cowie. City Clerk: Michelle Bradley. ______Chief of Police: Michael Daff. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 739

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[Editor’s note. — Governor of Virginia Originally chartered in 1858 by State of signed charters for Romney and Mecklenburg Virginia. Named for James Rowles, engineer, (Shepherdstown) December 23, 1762. Chapter who, about 1850, was in charge of the survey of XXI, Laws of Virginia, to establish the town of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in that section of Romney was adopted by the Virginia Assembly the State. on November 3, 1762. Also adopted on that same date was Chapter XXII, establishing the Population, 584 (2010 Census); elevation, town of Mecklenburg.] 1,441 feet; volunteer fire department; elections held every two years on the second Tuesday in ______June; officials take office July first; next election, June 11, 2013.

Ronceverte—Greenbrier Active bank: Clear Mountain Bank County Incorporated, Rowlesburg branch.

Zip Code 24970 Mayor: Margaret Schollar.

(Magisterial District: Fort Spring). Treasurer/Recorder: Kimberly Felton.

Incorporated in 1882. Name derived from the Fire Chief: Walter Sheets. French for Greenbrier, i.e., Ronce, brier; verte, green. City Attorney: Sheila Kay Williams.

During the Civil War, saltpeter was Municipal Judge: Margaret Schollar. manufactured by the Confederate forces in Organ Cave, a natural cave located three miles Members of Council: Scott Maxwell; Don south. Riggs; Bruce Simon; Bobby Goff; Gary Henline.

Population, 1,765 (2010 Census); elevation, Library Board of Directors: LaDonna 1,667 feet; volunteer fire department; elections Hershman, Chairperson; Roxanne Hare; Cindy held every two years on the first Tuesday in Bolyard. June; officials take office July first; next ______election, June 4, 2013. Hospital: Greenbrier Medical Center. Rupert—Greenbrier County

Active bank: First National. Zip Code 25984

Mayor: Gail White. (Magisterial District: Western District).

City Recorder: Jan Johnson. One of the older settlements in Greenbrier County. Founded by and named for Dr. Cyrus A. City Administrator: Reba Mohler. Rupert. Incorporated December 31, 1945. City Legal Counsel: Aaron Ambler. Population, 942 (2010 Census); elections held Chief of Police: James Bowyer. every two years on the second Tuesday in June; next election, June 11, 2013. Fire Chief: Casey Morgan. Mayor: Charles W. Mundy. Sewage Treatment Plant Supervisor: Ronnie Tipton. Clerk: Valerie L. Currence.

Public Works Director: Marvin R. Recorder: Jim Nichols. Zimmerman, Jr. Fire Chief: Dalton Elmore. Members of Council: David Smith; Crystal Members of Council: Ric Boice; Jim Byer; Bob Baker; Shawn Honaker; Barbara Nichols; Leah Yoakum; David McAfee; Ronald Morgan. Osborne; Shelia Tygrett. ______Rowlesburg—Preston County

Zip Code 26425

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Salem—Harrison County Fire Chief: Richard Todd.

Zip Code 26426 Chief of Police: Robert Willis II.

(Magisterial District: Tenmile). City Clerk: Kayla Lowther.

Incorporated in 1794. Originally named New Members of Council: Al Romagnoli; Israel Salem because the settlers who established the Williams; Doug Fischer; Robert Knight; James town came in a body from Salem, New Jersey, Robert Samples II; Laurie McKowen. arriving in the spring of 1792. ______The first civilized habitation on the land now occupied by the City of Salem was a hunter’s Incorporated 1905 by special charter camp established in 1785 by Nicholas enacted by West Virginia Legislature prior Carpenter, who used it for a hunting and to 1936. Charter and copies on file at trapping center. He also used it as a crude hotel Recorder’s Office, Salem. for himself and his men who drove cattle from Clarksburg to the Ohio River at Marietta which ______was the nearest market.

Samuel Fitz Randolph purchased the Sand Fork—Gilmer County property on which the village was founded in Zip Code 26430 1790. Randolph had started with a caravan of pioneer settlers from Salem, New Jersey, who (Magisterial District: Glenville). crossed the mountains in 1789 and made their first stop at Woodbridgetown, Pennsylvania. Incorporated in 1903 as Layopolis, after Randolph, a number of Davises, some Maxsons, William R. Lay, an employee of the Eureka Pipe and others came on to what is now Salem, after Line Company, operating at that time in the oil a two and one-half year trek from the sea coast. fields of Gilmer County. The post office was named Sand Fork after the creek on which the Salem was the first settlement of Seventh town is located, which derived its name because Day Baptists west of the mountains. It is now of the numerous sand bars found in early times the home of Salem International University, along the course of the stream. The town name founded in 1888, and the Industrial Home for was changed to Sand Fork as the result of an Youth, established in 1898. Glass has been a election in June 1983. major industry. It is the birthplace of United States Senator Jennings Randolph and writer Population, 159 (2010 Census); elevation, Granville Davison Hall, author of Daughter of approximately 720 feet; elections held every the Elm, The Rending of Virginia, and many four years on the second Tuesday in June; other historical books. officials take office July first; next election, June 11, 2013. Location of the Annual Applebutter Harvest Festival held the first weekend in October, Mayor: Frank Tomblin. featuring crafts, foods, street square dancing, cloggers, country and western music, gospel Recorder: Kati Wilson. music, Blue Ribbon Applebutter contest and Members of Council: Sue Edwards; Jim Blue Ribbon Apple Pie contest. The theme for Tatman; Judy Jones; Bud Spaur; Martin Hess. the festival is “Turn of the Century”. ______Class III city; population, 1,586 (2010 Census); elevation, 1,047 feet; volunteer fire department; elections held every two years on Shepherdstown—Jefferson the first Tuesday in June; next election, June 4, County 2013. Zip Code 25443 Active banks: BB&T, Salem Branch; Corner (Magisterial District: Shepherdstown). Stone Bank; West Union Bank, Salem Branch. *Claimed to be oldest town in State, Mayor: Donald Stamm. presumably being settled between 1730 and Recorder: Harley Horner. 1734, although first settlers probably arrived here as early as 1719. Originally chartered in City Manager: Joseph Davis. 1762 as Mecklenburg. Name changed to Shepherd’s Town in 1798 after Thomas City Attorney: Lisa Furbee-Ford. Shepherd, founder of the town, and again Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 741

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changed to Shepherdstown in 1867. First by Circuit Court. Shinnston City Charter newspaper in state, “Potomac Guardian and calling for a Mayor-Council form of government Berkeley Advertiser”, published here in was approved in 1915 and was in effect until November 1790, by Nathaniel Willis. Here in July 1, 1998. Citizens approved a new charter 1787 James Rumsey, inventor, conducted the in an election June 9, 1998, which called for a first public exhibition of his steamboat, and a City Manager form of government. monument to his memory has been erected by the state. Location of Shepherd University; the Class III city; population, 2,201 (2010 National Conservation Training Center and the Census); elevation, 909 feet; volunteer fire Federal Management Training Center. department; elections held every two years on the first Tuesday in June; officials take office Population, 1,734 (2010 Census); elevation, July first; next election, June 2, 2014; website: 405 feet; volunteer fire department; elections www.shinnstonwv.com. held every two years on the first Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next Library: Lowe Public Library. Active banks: election, June 3, 2014. Wesbanco, Huntington Bank. Museum: Bice/Ferguson Memorial Museum. Active banks: Jefferson Security Bank, BB&T, United National Bank, Premier Bank. Mayor: Sammy J. DeMarco. Library: Public. Vice Mayor: Robert Burnett. Mayor: Arthur J. Auxer III. Members of Council: Mary Ann Ferris; Recorder: Lori Robertson. David Signorelli; Rodney Strait; Brian Parrish; James Coulter. Town Clerk: Amy L. Boyd. City Manager: Debra Herndon. Chief of Police: David Ransom. Finance Officer: Emma Clarke. City Attorney: Charles Printz, Jr. City Clerk: Kathleen Panek. Fire Chief: Ross Morgan. Chief of Police: Michael L. Secreto. Public Works Supervisor: Frank Welch. Fire Chief: Douglas Gregory. Historian Laureate: Dr. James Price. City Attorney: Thomas Michael. Poet Laureate: Georgia Lee McElhaney. Sanitary Board: Sammy J. DeMarco; John Town Crier: Seth Rapheal. L. Lowman; Clement Sees.

Members of Council: Wanda Grantham ______Smith; David Rosen; Bane Schill; Karene Motivans; David Springer. Sistersville—Tyler County ______Zip Code 26175

[Editor’s note. — Governor of Virginia (Magisterial District: Lincoln). signed charters for Romney and Mecklenburg Established in 1815, but not incorporated (Shepherdstown) December 23, 1762. Chapter until 1839. Named for two sisters, Sarah and XXI, Laws of Virginia, to establish the town of Delilah Wells, owners of the land upon which Romney was adopted by the Virginia Assembly the town is now located. on November 3, 1762. Also adopted on that same date was Chapter XXII, establishing the Population, 1,396 (2010 Census); elevation, town of Mecklenburg.] 649 feet; volunteer fire department; elections held every two years on the fourth Thursday in ______March; officials take office first Monday in April; next election, March 22, 2012. Shinnston—Harrison County The city has a ferry boat that carries vehicles Zip Code 26431 across the Ohio River between Sistersville and Fly, Ohio. (Magisterial District: Clay). Hospital: Sistersville General. Library: Originally chartered in 1852 and named for Sistersville Public Library. Active banks: the Shinn family, pioneer settlers from New WesBanco, Union Bank, Peoples First Federal Jersey. Formerly known as Shinn’s Town. Was Savings Bank. incorporated with present name June 11, 1877, Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 742

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Mayor: David B. Fox. Smithfield—Wetzel County

Clerk-Treasurer: Diana Mace. Zip Code 26437

Chief of Police: Ben Placer. (Magisterial District: Grant).

Patrolmen: Byran Owens; Alex Northcraft; Incorporated in 1904 and named for Henry Steve Robinson. Smith, who established a store here at the beginning of the Wetzel County oil boom. City Commissioner: Vance Ash. Population, 145 (2010 Census); elevation, 836 Fire Chief: Steve Leasure. feet; elections held every four years on the City Attorney: Dean Rohrig. second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next election, June 9, 2015. Municipal Judge: Donald Harris. Mayor: Beth Edgell. City Health Officer: Dr. Gary Nichols. Recorder: Christina Shreve. Members of Council: Richard Long; Curtis Heintzman; Bill Rice; Dave Dietrich; Mitch Fire Chief: Roy Edgell. Conley; Jason Hood; Julie Schlier. City Attorney: Carolyn Flannery. Sanitary Board: Dave Fox; Allen Wilson; Members of Council: Jena Hendershot; Craig Pritchard. Turner Wright; Bill Hendershot; Hank Ferry Board: Carmen Silliman; Vance Ash; Hendershot. Terry Willey; Charles Winslow; Phil Konocaphy; ______Ann Doig.

______Sophia—Raleigh County

Zip Code 25921 Smithers—Fayette County (Magisterial District: Slab Fork). Zip Code 25186 Incorporated in 1912 by Circuit Court and (Magisterial District: Valley). named for Sophia McGinnis, whose residence was located between the two tunnels near the Incorporated in 1938. Named for James city. Smithers, early settler, who resided at the mouth of what is now known as Smithers Population, estimated 1,344 (2010 Census); Creek. elections held every four years on the first Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; Class IV town; population, 813 (2010 next election, June 4, 2013. Census); elevation, 640 feet; elections held every four years on the second Tuesday in June; Library: Sophia Library. officials take office July first; next election, June 10, 2014. Active banks: Pioneer National Bank, United National Bank. Mayor: Thomas Skaggs. Mayor: Danny Barr. Recorder-Treasurer: Susan Skaggs. Recorder-Treasurer: Ron Mills. Police Chief: Gerald Proctor. Chief of Police: Tomi Peck. Fire Chief: Tim Whittington. Fire Chief: Jeff Pittman. City Attorney: Anthony Ciliberti. City Attorneys: Gorman/Sleatsley. Municipal Judge: Teresa Dorsey. Members of Council: Randy Paul; Thomas Members of Council: Patsy C. Tucker; McKinney; Gary Basham; Mark Trotter; John Cathy Fox; Thomas B. Whittington, Jr.; Alice Greer. Cosgrove; Alma Bowles. ______Charter and copies on file in offices of Circuit Court and County Court, McDowell County. ______Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 743

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South Charleston—Kanawha Class III city; population, 2,322 (2010 County Census); elevation, 719 feet; volunteer fire department and police department centrally Zip Codes 25303 and 25309 dispatched by E911; elections held every four years on the second Tuesday in June; officials (Magisterial Districts: Districts II and III). take office July first; next election, June 11, 2013. Established in 1906, but not incorporated until 1919 by special charter enacted by West The City has five recreational areas: Virginia Legislature. So named because of its Washington and Griffith Parks have tennis location on the south side of the Kanawha courts; Heritage Park features a Depot Museum River, opposite part of the city of Charleston. and one-room school house; Miletree Lakes provide trout and bass fishing; and at the 1,500- Class II city; population, 13,450 (2010 acre Charles Fork Recreational Area, hunting, Census); paid fire department; elections held fishing and camping are available. The city also every four years on the first Tuesday in June; operates a modern swimming pool. officials take office July first; next election, June 2, 2015. Spencer is the home of the West Virginia Black Walnut Festival held each year in October Hospital: Herbert J. Thomas Memorial since 1956. The Spencer Tour de Lake Hospital. Active banks: Chase, Huntington Mountain Bike Race is held each summer. Banks, Wesbanco, United Bank, BB&T Bank, Heritage Days are held in June at Heritage City National Bank. Park.

Mayor: Frank A. Mullens, Jr. Industries: Armell Co., Mustang Survival. City Treasurer: Hannah Pettitt. Radio Station: WVRC-AM, FM. Weekly newspapers: The Times Record, The Roane City Clerk: Margie Spence. County Reporter. Library: Roane County. Hospital: Roane General Hospital. Nursing Deputy City Clerk: Rene Young. Home: Miletree Health Care Facility. Banks: Premier Bank, First Neighborhood Bank, Poca City Attorney: Moore & Biser Attorneys at Valley Bank. Medical Services: Roane County Law. Family Health Care, Roane County Health Police Chief: Brad Rinehart. Department.

Fire Chief: John Taylor. Mayor: Terry A. Williams.

Director of Public Works/Engineering: City Clerk: Annette Sanchez. Gerald Burgy. Recorder: David Holland. City Manager: Carlton Lee. Fire Chief: Rob Miller. Recreation Director: Joe Daugherty. Chief of Police: (Vacancy). Municipal Judge: H. Wyatt Hanna III. City Attorney: Thomas N. Whittier. Sanitary Board Manager: Steve DeBarr. Planning and Development: Jacob Fetty. Members of Council: Kathleen Walker; Dayton Griffith, Jr.; Jef Stevens; Jamie Sibold Public Works Director: Rob Miller. III; Jeff Means; Meg Britt; Kent Rymer; Linda Members of Council: Robin Stump; Aaron Anderson. Richardson; Toby Ford; Cecil Banks; David ______Holland. ______Spencer—Roane County St. Albans—Kanawha County Zip Code 25276 Zip Code 25177 (Magisterial District: Roane). (Magisterial District: District III). County seat. Originally chartered in 1858. Named for Spencer Roane, a distinguished Laid out in 1816. Originally known as Virginia jurist. Formerly known as New Philippi, after Philip Thompson, an early California. Incorporated by an Act of the settler, the name afterwards being changed to Legislature, February 20, 1867. Coalsmouth from its location at mouth of Coal Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 744

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River. Incorporated as Kanawha City in 1868. Firemen’s Civil Service Commission: Lee Name changed to St. Albans in 1871, that name Roberts; Sandra Ashley; Les Smith. being suggested by a man named Parsons, a member of the town council, after his home Policemen’s Civil Service Commission: town of St. Albans, Vermont. Steve Zubrzycki, President; James E. Shepherd; Jim Utterback. The city has a 92-acre city park and has adopted the marigold as its official flower. ______

Annual special events include: Festival of St. Marys—Pleasants County Lights, City Park during December; Riverfest, Roadside Park last weekend in June. Zip Code 26170

Class II city; population, 11,044 (2010 (Magisterial District: Washington). Census); elevation, 596 feet; paid fire department; elections held every four years on County seat. Originally chartered in 1815. the first Tuesday in June; officials take office Named in 1849 by its founder, Alexander H. July first; next primary election, April, 2013; Creel, in honor of the Virgin Mary, who next general election, June 4, 2013. according to legend appeared to him in a vision one night as the steamer upon which he was Active banks: BB&T Bank, Chase, City traveling on the Ohio River was passing the National, Star Credit Union, WV Federal Credit point where he afterwards established the town. Union. Class IV city; population, 1,860 (2010 (City under Charter with two Census); elevation, 628 feet; volunteer fire parties–Citizens and Peoples, nonpolitical). department; elections held every two years on the second Tuesday in June; next election, June Mayor: Dick Callaway. 11, 2013. Vice Mayor: Helen Warren. Site of state-operated St. Marys Correctional City Clerk/Treasurer: Barbara Facility. Cunningham. Library: The Pleasants County Public Chief of Police: Mike Matthews. Library.

Fire Chief: Steve Parsons. Active banks: Pleasants County Bank, Pleasants County Bank Drive-Thru, Union City Attorney: Charles Riffee. Bank and Union Bank Drive-Thru.

Municipal Judge: Tom Stricklen. Mayor: L. Paul Ingram.

Municipal Court Clerk: Vanessa Peters. City Manager: Rick Phillips.

Prosecuting Attorney: Charles Riffee. Recorder-Treasurer: Linda K. Wilson.

City Recorder: Veronica A. Westfall. Chief of Police: Bill Stull.

Building Inspector/Zoning Official: Patrolmen: Jason Reed; Nathan Boron; Charles Roberts. Salvatore Travaglio.

Public Works Director: Orville Browning. Fire Chief: Mark Hadley.

Parks and Recreation Department: City Attorney: Keith White. Parks Maintenance Foreman, Timmy Russell; Program Coordinator, Scott Tweedy. Members of Council: Charlie Knight; Rick McCullough; Mike McGee; J. B. Phillips; Bill Senior Services Director: Kathy Barnette. Israel; Pat Boyles.

Members of Council: Robert Keiffer; Municipal Police Judge: Brian Carr. Ronald K. Colby III; Helen Warren; Desper Lemon; Loretta Griffith; J. D. Adkins; Cheryl ______Thomas; Kevin Pennington; Steve Donelson; John Boles; Jerry Cogar; Dan Cain, Sr.

Municipal Utility Commission Board: Ron Colby; Frank Offutt; Tim Sheldon; Jerry Cogar. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 745

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Star City—Monongalia County Recorder: John Ciesla. Treasurer: Amanda J. Seti. Zip Code 26505 Chief of Police: Thomas Bokey. (Magisterial District: Morgan). Fire Chief: (Vacancy). Incorporated May 17, 1907, by Circuit Court and named by Louis F. Kauffield, owner of the City Attorney: Gregory Tucker. Star Glass Company, after the company name. Public Works Director: Travis Yost. Population, 1,825 (2010 Census); volunteer fire department; elections held every two years Sanitary/Water Board Director: John on the second Tuesday in June; officials take Hines. office July first; next election, June 11, 2013. Members of Council: Angela Sipko; Dan Mayor: Allen R. Sharp. Carder; Brenda Martin; Tom Rhinehart; Kay Defazio. Recorder: Sharon Doyle. ______Treasurer: Robert Lloyd.

Chief of Police: Victor Propst. Summersville—Nicholas County Fire Chief: John Huber. Zip Code 26651 Public Works Director: Kevin Nuce. (Magisterial District: Summersville). City Attorney: Paul Cranston. County seat. Originally established in 1824, Members of Council: Robert Musick; but not incorporated until 1897 by Circuit Anthony Giambrone; Frank Andrews; Sylvia Court. Named in honor of Judge Lewis Buzby; Janice Rowan. Summers, who introduced the bill in the Virginia Assembly creating Nicholas County. Zoning Board of Appeals: Willa Jarvis; Chad Laskody; Tanya Musick; Patsy Class III city; population, 3,572 (2010 DeChristopher; (Vacancy). Census); elevation, 1,894 feet; volunteer fire department; elections held every four years on Policemen’s Civil Service Commission: the second Tuesday in June; officials take Emile Frere; Judi Murray; (Vacancy). office July first; next election, June 9, 2015. Municipal Court Judge: Todd Johnson. Active banks: BB&T Bank, Community ______Trust Bank, First Community Bank, United Bank. Hospitals: Summersville Memorial Hospital, Mental Health Center, Out-Patient Charter and copies on file with Circuit Clinic. Court of Monongalia County, Morgantown. Mayor: Robert L. Shafer. ______Recorder: L. Fred Reed.

Stonewood—Harrison County Finance Director: Joetta Comer.

Zip Code 26301 Chief of Police: Jay Nowak.

(Magisterial District: Clark). Fire Chief: Rodney Snodgress.

Incorporated December 17, 1947. Name was Director of Emergency Services: Jay derived from two smaller towns formerly known Nowak. as Stonewall and Norwood. City Attorney: Gregory Tucker. Population, estimated 1,975 (2010 Census); volunteer fire department; elections held every Municipal Judge: Steven Callaghan; G. two years on the second Tuesday in June; Jarroll. officials take office July first; next election, June 11, 2013. Court Clerk: Marsha Querrey.

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Members of Council: Wayne Halstead; Mayor: Manuel P. Arvon. Amy Young; Mike Steadham; Joe Rapp; Lisa Baker; David Harper; Eugene Underwood. Recorder: Sande’ Minturn.

______Members of Council: Johnnie Elswick; James Massey; Harry White; Diane Wiseman; Shelia Anderson. Charter and copies on file at Office of Recorder, Municipal Building, Chief of Police: Andrew White. Summersville and Clerk’s Office, Nicholas County Courthouse, Summersville. ______

______Terra Alta—Preston County

Sutton—Braxton County Zip Code 26764

Zip Code 26601 (Magisterial District: Portland).

(Magisterial Districts: Holly and Otter). Originally chartered in 1860 as Portland, after Portland, Maine. Incorporated in 1890 by County seat. Established as Suttonsville in Circuit Court. Formerly known as Cranberry 1826. Named for John D. Sutton, the founder of Summit from the abundant yield of cranberries the town. Reincorporated in 1883. Site of found there at the time. Incorporated as Terra Sutton Dam and Lake. Town was burned Alta in 1890. Name derived from the Latin during civil war. meaning “high land”.

Population, 994 (2010 Census); elevation, 843 Hopemont State Hospital is located near feet; volunteer fire department; elections held here. Alpine Lodge, a multi-million dollar every two years on the second Tuesday in June; winter and summer resort is located outside of officials take office July first; next election, Terra Alta. Fishing, boating, swimming, golf June 11, 2013. and modern restaurant. Cabins and camping Active banks: City National Bank, Bank of facilities. Gassaway. Population, 1,477 (2010 Census); elevation, Mayor: J. L. Campbell. 2,559 feet; volunteer fire department; elections held every two years on the second Tuesday in Recorder: Joan Bias. June; officials take office July first; next election, June 11, 2013. Clerk: Wilda Skidmore. Active banks: Clear Mountain Bank, BB&T Chief of Police: C. E. Westfall. Bank.

Fire Chief: Mike Baker. Mayor: Charles Feather.

Municipal Judge: J. L. Campbell. City Clerk: Tonya Myers.

Municipal Court Clerk and Secretary: Town Recorder: Jessica Nice. Wilda Skidmore. Fire Chief: Rob Kirk. Members of Council: Allen Bly; Francis Crites; Gabriel Hopen; John Chidister; Mary City Attorney: Sheila Williams. Redman. Municipal Judge: Charles Feather. ______Sanitary Board Director: Charles Feather.

Sylvester—Boone County Water Board Director: James Sypolt, Jr.

Zip Code 25193 Members of Council: Jim Myers; John Burns; Wayne Lewis; Christopher DeLauder; (Magisterial District: Sherman). Karen Nordeck.

Incorporated April 11, 1952, by Circuit Court. ______Population, 160 (2010 Census); elections held every four years on the first Tuesday in June; Charter on file at Preston County officials take office July first; next election, Courthouse, Kingwood. June 2, 2015. ______Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 747

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Thomas—Tucker County Members of Council: Melissa Dragan; Cynthia Dragan; Tighe Bullock. Zip Code 26292 ______(Magisterial District: Fairfax).

Chartered in 1892. Incorporated by an Act of Charter on file with Circuit Court of the Legislature April 17, 1925. Named for Fayette County, Fayetteville. Records Colonel Thomas Davis, pioneer railroad and destroyed by fire 1963. mine owner in that section of the state. ______Thomas is situated at the door of the Eastern Panhandle of the state, just west of the divide Triadelphia—Ohio County that separates the waters of the Chesapeake Bay by way of the Potomac River, from those of Zip Code 26059 the Gulf of Mexico, by way of the Cheat, Monongahela and Mississippi rivers; and is 78 (Magisterial District: Triadelphia). miles southwest of Cumberland, Maryland, and Originally chartered in 1829. Name adopted 35 miles northeast of Elkins. from the Greek word meaning three brothers, Population, 586 (2010 Census); elevation, and probably named for the three sons of 3,013 feet; volunteer fire department; elections Colonel Josias Thompson, who donated the land held every two years on the first Tuesday in upon which the town was originally laid out. May; officials take office July first; next Population, 811 (2010 Census); elevation, 745 election, May 6, 2014. feet; volunteer fire department; elections held Active bank: Miners and Merchants Bank. every four years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next election, Mayor: Matt Quattro. June 9, 2015.

Clerk: Kathy Helmick. Mayor: Kenneth Murphy.

Recorder: Mary Johnson. Recorder: Jean Hunter.

Fire Chief: Joseph DiBacco. Clerk: Linda Violet.

City Attorney: Pat A. Nichols. Treasurer: (Vacancy).

Members of Council: Jean Dement; Junior Police Chief: Dave McClothlin. Davis; Matt Sherald; Jodi Flanagan; Matt Quattro. City Attorney: Kurelac Law Office.

______Members of Council: Neal Carr; Tom Allietta; Clifton Adkins; Joyce Johnston; (Vacancies). Charter on file at City Hall Building, Thomas. ______

______Tunnelton—Preston County

Thurmond—Fayette County Zip Code 26444

Zip Code 25936 (Magisterial District: Kingwood).

(Magisterial District: Plateau). Incorporated in 1897. So named because of its location at the eastern end of the Baltimore and Incorporated in 1903 by Circuit Court and Ohio Railroad Company’s tunnel at the point, named for Captain W. D. Thurmond, who owned the longest on the entire system. Formerly the land upon which the town is located. known as Cassidy’s Summit.

Population, 5 (2010 Census); elevation, 1,071 Population, 294 (2010 Census); elevation, feet; elections held every four years on the 1,829 feet; volunteer fire department; elections second Tuesday in June; officials take office held every two years on the second Tuesday in July first; next election, June 11, 2013. June; officials take office July first; next election, June 11, 2013. Mayor: Melanie Dragan. Mayor: Paul J. Fiedler. Recorder: Chad L. McCune. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 748

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Recorder: Paul Fiedler. Police Chief: Bernard G. Davidson, Jr.

Treasurer: April Maier. Fire Chief: Mike Zink.

Fire Chief: Franklin Schnopp. City Attorney: Susan Moser.

City Attorney: Tom Micheal. Municipal Judge: Lorraine Eckard.

Members of Council: Walter Moats; April Court Clerk: Patty Naumann. Maier; Timothy Kennedy; Donna Zeigler; Nathaniel Mullenax. Planning and Development: Stephanie Brogan. Water Commissioner: Nancy Acuff. Water Board Director: Robert Games. Town Clerk: Rita Nicholson. Members of Council: Darryl Nick; ______Stephanie Brogan; Chad Kleeh; Donna McCave; John Harto, Jr.; Patty Naumann; Gerry Trager, Union—Monroe County Sr. ______Zip Code 24983 (Magisterial District: Union). Vienna—Wood County County seat. Settled by James Alexander in Zip Code 26105 1774 and originally chartered in 1799. Established by an Act of the General Assembly (Magisterial Districts: Parkersburg and of Virginia, January 6, 1800. So named because Williams). in frontier days, the site of the town was a rendezvous for troops during the Indian wars. Originally laid out in 1794 by Dr. Joseph Spencer, but not incorporated until May 13, Population, 565 (2010 Census); elevation, 1935, by Circuit Court. Named for Vienna, 2,071 feet; elections held every two years on the Fairfax County, Virginia. second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next election, June 11, 2013. Class II city; population, 10,749 (2010 Census); next general election, November 6, Active bank: Bank of Monroe. 2012; officials take office January 1, 2013.

Mayor: Caroline Sparks. Active banks: United National Bank; Community Bank; BB&T; Wesbanco. Recorder: Robert N. Pomphrey. Mayor: David C. Nohe. Treasurer: (Vacancy). Recorder: Randall C. Rapp. Fire Chief: (Vacancy). Treasurer: Steven Black. Members of Council: Barbara Weikle; Jody Gullette; Randall Mills; Shirley Weikle; John Chief of Police: George Young. Metzer. Fire Chief: Daniel Goodwin. ______City Attorney: Russell Skogstad.

Valley Grove—Ohio County Municipal Judge: William Crichton VI.

Zip Code 26060 Public Works Director: Craig Metz.

(Magisterial District: Liberty). Human Resource Directors: S. Black and Incorporated in 1951. C. Starcher.

Population, 378 (2010 Census); volunteer fire Members of Council: Paul Thornton; department; elections held every four years on Cathy Smith; Bruce E. Rogers; Roger Bibbee; second Tuesday in June; officials take office Jim Miracle. July first; next election, June 11, 2013. ______Mayor: Chad D. Kleeh.

Treasurer-Recorder: Patty L. Naumann. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 749

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War—McDowell County Recorder: John H. Sayers.

Zip Code 24892 Town Manager: Patrick B. Ford.

(Magisterial District: Big Creek). Members of Council: Greg Alderman; Michael Funkhouser; Grace Garrett; Chester R. Incorporated in 1920 by Circuit Court. Name Tharp; Karen Pappas. derived from War Creek, which runs through the town, and which was so named by the ______settlers about 1788 because of an Indian-settler Charter on file in Office of Clerk of battle which occurred near the source of the Circuit Court; copies on file at Recorder’s creek. Formerly known as Miner’s City. Office, Wardensville. Population, 862 (2010 Census); elevation, ______1,342 feet; volunteer fire department; nonpartisan elections held every four years; Wayne—Wayne County election held on the second Tuesday in May; officials take office July first; next nonpartisan Zip Code 25570 election, May 13, 2013. (Magisterial District: Union). Active bank: Ameribank. County seat. Originally founded in 1842 as Mayor: Carolyn Cempella. Trout’s Hill, honoring Abraham Trout, a first settler, owner of the land upon which the town Recorder-Treasurer: Peggy Deel. was laid out. Incorporated as Fairview in 1882 City Clerk: Kitten Cempella. by Circuit Court. Name was changed to Wayne in 1911. Chief of Police: Mark Shelton. Population, 1,413 (2010 Census); elevation, City Judge: Lawrence Crigger. 707 feet; volunteer fire department; elections held every two years on the second Tuesday in Fire Chief: Matthew Dash. June; officials take office July first; next election, June 11, 2013. City Attorney: (Vacancy). Active banks: Chase, City National Bank, Members of Council: Margaret Beavers; Huntingtonized Federal Credit Union. Orbie Campbell; Paul Whitt; Manuel Collins; Helen Katie Linkous. Mayor: Dwayne Stiltner.

______Recorder: Toney Atkins.

Acting Chief of Police: Joshua Stephens. Charter on file at City Hall and copies at McDowell County Courthouse, Welch. Police Judge: Kevin Bradshaw.

______Fire Chief: Jerry Maynard.

Wardensville—Hardy County Members of Council: Rosie Whipkey; Danny Grace; Terry Ramey; Mick Sanders; Jon Zip Code 26851 Reed.

(Magisterial District: Capon). ______

Chartered in Virginia in 1832, incorporated Weirton—Hancock and Brooke in West Virginia in 1879. Named for Jacob Counties Warden, first merchant. Formerly known as Trout Run. Zip Code 26062

Population, 271 (2010 Census); elections held (Magisterial Districts: Butler and Cross every two years on the second Tuesday in May Creek). to coincide with the state primary election; officials take office July first; next election, May Incorporated July 1, 1947, by Circuit Court. 13, 2014. Consolidation of towns of Hollidays Cove, Weirton Heights, Marland Heights and Weirton. Active bank: Capon Valley Bank. Located on the Ohio River. Served by water, rail and highway. Mayor: Tracey S. Miller. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 750

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Class II city; population, 19,746 (2010 Welch—McDowell County Census); combination paid and volunteer fire department; elections held every four years on Zip Code 24801 the first Tuesday in June; next election, June 2, 2015. (Magisterial District: Browns Creek).

City-owned water, sewage and sanitation County seat. Incorporated in 1894 and named works; Milsop Community Center–Park Board for Isaiah A. Welch, a captain in the Recreation Commission. Hospital: Weirton Confederate Army. Present municipality created Medical Center. Library: Mary H. Weir Public by an Act of the Legislature, and annulling the Library. Active banks: Wesbanco, Huntington charter granted to the city by Act of the Bank, United National Bank, Hancock County Legislature in 1919. Federal Savings & Loan Company. Location of the first memorial building Mayor: George Konkik. erected in the United States to the memory of the veterans of World War I. (The building was Clerk: Nicole Schuetzner. destroyed by fire April 22, 1979.)

Finance Director: Thomas Maher. The City of Welch received its designation in the National Register of Historic Places in City Manager: Valerie A. Means. April, 1992. The McDowell County Courthouse has also been named to the National Historic City Attorney: Vince Gurrera. Register and was the site of the trial and Members of Council: Chuck Wright; Dave shooting of Sid Hatfield and Ed Chambers who Dalrymple; George Gaughenbaugh; Ron Jones; played significant parts in the coalfield wars. George Ash; Fred Marsh; Terry Weigel. Site of War Memorial honoring McDowell Chief of Police: Bruce Marshall. County veterans.

Fire Chief: Jerry Shumate. Site of the 40 & 8 boxcar (the same car in which American soldiers of World Wars I and II Police Judge: Mike Adams. rode to and from the front lines in) donated in 1949 by the French to the Americans as a Chief Code Official: Rod Rosnick. means of showing their gratitude for the millions of dollars of aid sent to them (The Public Works Director: John Brown. Marshall Plan). The boxcar was filled with gifts City Engineer Consultant: Joe Chek. from France and its people, among which included French oak tree acorns, some of which Sanitation Foreman: Rick Flynn. were planted at Point Pleasant, West Virginia.

Water General Supervisor: Sam American Legion Post 8, sponsors the oldest, Stoneking. continuous running Veteran’s Day Parade and Celebration which has been host to many Water Plant Foreman: Chuck Tenaglio. national and state dignitaries over the years. Utility Director: A. D. Mastrantoni. The parade takes place in downtown Welch.

Community Center Director: Terry Location of first municipally owned and Weigel. operated parking building erected in the United States. Library Director: Richard Rekowski. Class III city; population, 2,406 (2010 Street Department Superintendent: Census); elevation, 1,303 feet; volunteer fire Dave Smith. department; elections held every four years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office Sanitary General Supervisor: Kevin July first; next election, June 10, 2014. Board. Hospital: Welch Community (a state ______hospital). Library: McDowell County Public Library. Active banks: MCNB Bank & Trust Charter and copies on file at City Company, Ameribank. Radio/broadcasting Clerk’s Office, Weirton. station: WELC AM/FM. One newspaper: Welch News. ______Mayor: Martha H. Moore (deceased 10-13- 10) Reba Honaker (appointed 2-24-11). Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 751

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City Clerk: Robin G. Lee. Lewis and Clark expedition, and author of its “Journal”. Also the home of Dr. Joseph Chief of Police: Eugene Muncy. Doddridge, author of Frontier Notes, and Grimes Golden Apple, planted Jonny Appleseed. Street Commissioner: Robert L. Lee. Class III city; population, 2,805 (2010 Members of Council: William Spencer; Census); elevation, 661 feet; volunteer fire Emily Yeager; Frank Cooley; James Ingole, Sr.; department; elections held every two years on Fred Odum. the second Tuesday in June; officials take office Welch-Woodmont Housing Authority: July first; next election, June 11, 2013. Jim Ingole, Sr.; David Falin; Andrew Library: Brooke County Public Library. Montgomery; Christine Williams. Active banks: Progressive Bank, Wesbanco of Historic Landmarks Commission: Leta Wellsburg. Building and loan association: First Harman; Danny Barie; Bobby Whittaker; Ron National Bank and Main Street Bank. Estep; Jay Chatman. Mayor: Sue Simonetti. Policemen’s Civil Service Commission: City Manager: Mark Henne. Cathy Rae Underwood Wright; Martha Carol Calloway; Jesse J. Rose. City Clerk: Mary Blum.

Municipal Police Judge: McGinnis E. Treasurer: Francine Kraus. Hatfield, Jr. Chief of Police: Stanley W. Kins. Welch Water and Wastewater Department Superintendent: Jack R. Judge: Dean MaKricostas. Whittaker. Fire Chief: Richard Kins. Welch Building Commission: Mary L. Odum, Chairman; Donald Morgan; Vesta Members of Council: Sue Simonetti; Mary Larkin. Blum; Mike Mitchell; Bruce Hunter; Paul Billiard; Ron Michaux; Randy Fletcher; Tom Building Inspection Commission: Reba Diserio; Della Serevicz; Jeff Tarr. Honaker, Chairman; Tony Larkin; Claude Banner. ______

Health Inspector: Jesse J. Rose. Charter on file at Wellsburg City Fire Chiefs: Tony Larkin; Denny Hale. Collector and Treasurer’s Office, City Building, Wellsburg. Acts of the Volunteer Fire Chief: Dennie W. Hale. Legislature of West Virginia, Regular Session 1931, Chap. 82, p. 283, House Bill Assistant Fire Chief: Guy Wyatt. No. 190.

Sanitary Board: Reba Honaker, Chairman; ______John E. Caffrey. Water Board: Reba Honaker, Chairman; West Hamlin—Lincoln County Claude Banner; John E. Caffrey; David Falin. Zip Code 25571 City Attorney: Danny W. Barie. (Magisterial District: Sheridan). ______Incorporated on June 19, 1947, by Circuit Wellsburg—Brooke County Court. Population, 774 (2010 Census); elections held Zip Code 26070 every four years on the second Tuesday in June; (Magisterial District: Wellsburg). officials take office July first; next election, June 9, 2015. County seat. Originally chartered as Charlestown in 1791. Name changed to Mayor: Farris H. Burton, Jr. Wellsburg in 1816. Chartered February 21, Recorder: JoAnna Cardwell. 1887, by Act of the Legislature. Named for Alexander Wells, son-in-law of Charles Prather, Fire Marshal: Phillip Skeens. builder of the first large flour warehouse in the east. Home of Patrick Gass, member of the Water Plant Operators: David A. McCoy; Timmy Morgan; C. G. Bowen. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 752

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Members of Council: Robert L. Bias; Joey West Milford—Harrison Crum; Sherrill Porter; Nellie G. Adkins; Alben County DuVall.

______Zip Code 26451 (Magisterial District: Union). West Liberty—Ohio County Originally chartered in 1818. So named Zip Code 26074 because of the location of a mill on the west side of the West Fork River, near a much-used ford. (Magisterial District: Liberty-Triadelphia). Population, 1,035 (2010 Census); elevation, Incorporated August 19, 1975, the town 979 feet; elections held every two years on the includes the West Liberty University campus. second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next election, June 11, 2013. Population, 1,542 (2010 Census); elections held annually on the second Tuesday in June; Mayor: Nancy L. Gall. next election, June 12, 2014. Recorder: Michael Berry. Mayor: Rosemary Miller. Treasurer: Frank Nuzum. Finance Director: Shane Stack. Secretary/Clerk: Debra Criss. Recorder: Ruth Caldwell. Court Clerk: Debra Criss. Police Chief: John Haglock. Fire Chief: John Elko. Fire Chief: Bill Cox. Street Commissioner: Sean Kohl. City Attorney: Susan Moser. Members of Council: Frank Nuzum; Municipal Judge: Lorraine M. Eckard. Barbara Fidler; Anne Myers; Roberta Flanigan; (Vacancy). Court Clerk: (Vacancy). ______Members of Council: Kevin McCausland; Rory Barnes; Lee D. Bonar; Walter Caldwell; Craig Conway. West Union—Doddridge County ______Zip Code 26456

West Logan—Logan County (Magisterial District: West Union).

Zip Code 25601 County seat. Incorporated in 1881 by Circuit Court. Name suggested by Nathan Davis, who (Magisterial District: Guyan). owned the land upon which the town is now Incorporated on November 6, 1950, by located. The town was established just across County Court. Named by reason of the location Middle Island Creek from Lewisport, which had being West Logan Addition. some half dozen residences at the time an effort was being made to change the name of that Population, 424 (2010 Census); elections held settlement to Union; hence the name, “West every four years on the second Tuesday in June; Union”. next election, June 11, 2013. Population, 825 (2010 Census); elevation, 836 Mayor: Darren Akers. feet; Doddridge County volunteer fire department located in West Union; elections Recorder-Treasurer: Kristi Justice Adkins. held every two years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next Police Chief: Robert J. Ward. election, June 11, 2013. City Attorney: Dan Dahill. Library: Doddridge County, Branch of Alpha Municipal Judge: J. D. Charles. Regional Library. Active banks: West Union Bank, Cornerstone Bank. Members of Council: Jamie Browning; Mary Randan; Mark Mereske; Howard Moore; Mayor: Robert F. Fetty. Delores Murray. Recorder: Etta A. Stadler. ______Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 753

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Fire Chief: Pat Heaster. Firemen’s Civil Service Commission: Bob Nicholson; Debbie Bennett; Gene Edwards. Police Chief: Gerald Turner. Board of Fire Commissioners: Michael Members of Council: David N. Bonnell; Young; Robert Kiddy; Gary Hall. Mary M. Daugherty; James Lowell McAfee; Nancy Travis; Joseph R. Thorpe. Policemen’s Civil Service Commission: Glen Brown, Jr., President; Stephen Garton; ______Reginald Hawver.

Sanitary Board: Julia H. Spelsberg, Chair; Charter on file with Clerk of Circuit Frank Angotti; Tom Pickens; Chad Boram, Court of Doddridge County. Project Engineer. ______Housing Authority: Eunice Lattimer, Chair; Mary Knight, Vice Chair; H. Steven Weston—Lewis County Colburn, Commissioner; Larry Ransinger, Commissioner; Allen Evans, Commissioner; Zip Code 26452 Sandy Loller, Executive Director.

(Magisterial Districts: Court House, ______Freeman’s Creek, Hacker’s Creek, Skin Creek and Collins Settlement). Westover–Monongalia County County seat. The town heretofore established Zip Code 26501 by law on the lands of Daniel Stringer and Lewis Maxwell, around the public grounds, in (Magisterial District: Grant). the County of Lewis, by the name of Preston, afterwards changed to Flesherville, shall Incorporated October 12, 1911, by Circuit hereafter be called and known by the name of Court. So named because of the location of the Weston instead of the name therefore given town West of Morgantown, across the thereto. Monongahela River.

Weston was incorporated January 14, 1846, Class III city; population, 3,983 (2010 and was established at Westfield. Census); volunteer fire department; elections held every two years on the second Tuesday in Class III city; population, 4,110 (2010 June; officials take office July first; next Census); elevation, 1,009 feet; part-paid and election, June 10, 2014. volunteer fire department; elections held every four years on the first Tuesday in June; officials Mayor: Dave Johnson. take office July first; next election, June 2, 2015. Finance Director: Kristen Mullins.

Hospitals: Stonewall Jackson Memorial, City Clerk: Sandra Weis. William R. Sharpe, Jr., Hospital. Library: City Attorney: George Armstead. Louis Bennett Public Library. Active banks: Citizens Bank, United Bank, Huntington Fire Chief: Ken Goodwin, Jr. National Bank. Chief of Police: James Smith. Mayor: Julia Spelsberg. Municipal Judge: Eugene Sellaro. Clerk: Kristin M. Droppelman. Court Clerk: Kellie Neville. City Attorney: Tom Michael. Public Works Director: Dave Huggins. Finance Manager: Michael Allen. Members of Council: Janice Goodwin; Chief of Police: Roger D. Clem, Jr. William Wilson; Edie Viola; Al Yocum; John Morgan; Connie Katsakis. Street Commissioner: John Hogan. ______Fire Chief: Kenneth Parker.

Building Inspector: John Hogan. Wheeling—Ohio and Marshall Members of Council: James Oldaker; Terry Counties Cogar; David Blake; Roger Gaines. Zip Code 26003 Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 754

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(Magisterial Districts: Washington-Clay- Finance Director: Michael Klug. Union-Madison, Center-Webster-Ritchie). City Clerk: Janice L. Jones. County seat. Settled in 1769 by Ebenezer Zane and followers. Name derived from Indian Chief of Police: Shawn Schwertfeger. word, “Wheeling”, which name was used for years prior to the Zane settlement to designate Fire Chief: Larry Helms. the creek which bisects the city. In 1793 the Emergency Service Director: Louis Vargo. existence of Wheeling as a town became evident when Zane divided the settlement into lots, but Police Judges: Jeffrey Miller; Donald Wheeling was not incorporated as a town until Nickerson. 1806 by the General Assembly of Virginia. City Solicitor: Rosemary Humway- Although the peace treaty with the Indians Warmuth. was still in effect when Zane settled here, he and his followers immediately built a fort, Assistant City Solicitor: Gary Sacco. which they called “Fort Henry”. Here was fought, in September, 1782, the last battle of the Economic and Community Development American Revolution. It was during this siege Director: Nancy Prager. that the famous legend of Betty Zane was established, when she braved a storm of gunfire Public Works Director: Russell Jebbia. to carry powder from the Zane cabin to the fort. Planning Commission Chairman: Barry Wheeling was the state’s capital until 1870 Crow. and again from 1875 to 1880 when the government was moved to Charleston. Building Code Official: Frank Wilson.

First Church in Wheeling: Fourth Street City Engineer: Conrad Slanina. Methodist Episcopal, erected in 1818-19 on land given by Noah Zane. First Catholic church: St. Members of Council: Andy McKenzie; Joseph’s was erected in the year 1822 on land Gloria Delbrugge; Robert Henry; Don Atkinson; given, likewise, by Noah Zane. Location of Eugene T. Fahey; Ken Imer; David Miller. Linsly Institute, Mount de Chantal Academy; Wheeling Jesuit University and West Virginia Firemen’s Civil Service Commission: Northern Community College; radio and Andy Schreiber; Mark Ferrell; Richard Dunley. television broadcasting stations: WKWK, Police Civil Service Commission: John WOVK, WWVA, WTRF-TV, WBBD, WEEL, Culler; Michael Gallaway; John Wroten. WEGW, WTOV-TV.

Class II city; population, 28,486 (2010 Municipal Civil Service Commission: Census); elevation, 678 feet. Elections held Wilkes Kinney; Edward M. George III; Robert every four years on the second Tuesday in May; Hagedorn. next election May 13, 2016. City Health Officer: Dr. William Mercer. Parks: Wheeling Park and Oglebay Park, ______rated as one of the finest educational- recreational centers in the United States. Incorporated 1806 by State of Virginia Historical: Location of Independence Hall, prior to formation of West Virginia. known as West Virginia State Shrine, where the Charter and copies on file in office of City state of West Virginia was founded in Civil War Clerk, City-County Building, Wheeling. days of 1863, after separation from the state of Virginia. Acts of the Legislature 1935, Chap. 141.

Hospitals: Ohio Valley Medical Center, ______Wheeling Hospital, Peterson Hospital, Northwood Health Systems, Inc., Florence White Hall—Marion County Crittenton Homes. Library: Ohio County Public Library. Active banks: WesBanco, First Zip Code 26554 West Virginia Bank, United National Bank, Bank One-Wheeling, Wheeling National Bank, (Magisterial District: Palatine). Fed One Savings Bank, Huntington Bank, BB&T Bank. Established December 8, 1992, as West Virginia’s most recently incorporated Mayor: Andy McKenzie. municipality.

City Manager: Robert Herron. Class IV town; population, 648 (2010 Census); elections held every two years on the Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 755

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second Tuesday in June; officials take office Incorporated August 15, 1935, by Circuit July first; next election, June 11, 2013. Court. Named for B. W. White, prominent early settler in that territory. Formerly known as Mayor: Jesse L. Corley. Jarrold’s Valley and Pritchard City.

Recorder: Charles Mason. Population, 514 (2010 Census); elections held every four years on the second Tuesday in June; Treasurer: Beverly Owens. officials take office July first; next election, Members of Council: Gary Wilson; Beverly June 11, 2013. Owens; Guy Ward; Chad Corley; George Allen Active bank: Whitesville State Bank. Abel. Mayor: Fred Harless, Jr. ______Recorder: Deborah Anderson. Charter on file with Secretary of State, Chief of Police: Bill Browning. Charleston. Fire Chief: (Vacancy). ______Municipal Judge: Louie Manios.

White Sulphur Springs— Members of Council: David Hodge; Peggy Greenbrier County Tetoff; Randall Kirk; Susan Grubbs; Patti Manios. Zip Code 24986 ______(Magisterial District: South Eastern).

Incorporated in 1909. Named by the earliest Williamson—Mingo County settlers for the sulphur springs of clear transparency found on the grounds of what is Zip Code 25661 now The Greenbrier, world famous resort. (Magisterial District: Williamson). Formerly known as Dry Creek. County seat. Incorporated in 1905 by special Class III city; population, 2,444 (2010 charter of the Legislature. Several intervening Census); elevation, 1,923 feet; volunteer fire charters have been enacted, the last a special department; elections held every two years on charter in 1933. City was named for the the second Tuesday in June; officials take office founder, Wallace J. Williamson, who at one time July first; next election, June 11, 2013. owned most of the land upon which the city is Library: White Sulphur Springs Public now located. Library. Active banks: First Citizens Bank, First Class III city; population, 3,191 (2010 National Bank. Census); elevation, 660 feet; paid fire Mayor: Thomas Taylor. department; elections held every four years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office Recorder: Peggy Bland. July first; next election, June 11, 2013.

Financial Secretary: Linda J. Coleman- Hospital: Williamson Memorial. Library: Barker. Williamson Public Library. Active banks: First National Bank of Williamson, BB&T, Fire Chief: Chad Williams. Community Trust Bank, Bank of Mingo.

Police Chief: William Wallcoen. Mayor: A. Darrin McCormick.

Members of Council: George Parker; Lynn Clerk: Frances Frye. Swann; Bruce Bowling; Robert Sams; Lloyd Haynes. Chief of Police: C. D. Rockel.

______Fire Chief: Jerry Mounts.

City Attorney: C. Christopher Younger. Whitesville—Boone County Water Superintendent: Jason Allen. Zip Code 25209 Members of Council: Matthew (Magisterial District: Sherman). Thornsbury; York Smith, Jr.; Connie Rockel; Sherri Brown. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 756

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Policemen’s Civil Service Commission: Treasurer: Scott Swanson. George Poole III; Myra Miller; Paul Lee. Members of Council: Herb Hupp; John Firemen’s Civil Service Commission: Kokosinski, Jr.; Tuson Johnston; Karen Clyne; Sam Olive, Jr.; Nick D. Maroudas; Dr. Kenneth Charles Miller. Avery. ______Winfield—Putnam County Williamstown–Wood County Zip Code 25213 Zip Code 26187 (Magisterial District: Scott). (Magisterial District: Williams). County seat. Laid out in 1848, but not Originally chartered in 1822. Incorporated by incorporated until 1868. Named in honor of an Act of the Legislature in 1921. Named for General Winfield Scott, of Mexican War fame. Isaac Williams, its founder. Population, estimated 2,301 (2010 Census); Class III city; population, 2,908 (2010 elevation, 589 feet; volunteer fire department; Census); elevation, 610 feet; volunteer fire elections held every two years on the second department; elections held every two years on Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; the second Tuesday in May; officials take office next election, June 11, 2013. July first; next election, May 13, 2014. Mayor: Randy Barrett. Active bank: Williamstown Bank. Public Library; boat ramp and park on Ohio River; city Recorder: Carolyn Jackie Hunter. park, 6.7 acres; tennis court; basketball courts. Fire Chief: Kevin Watson. Mayor: Jean Ford. Director of Utilities: Billy E. Harper. Treasurer/Clerk: Susan Knopp. Director of Public Works: Johnny K. Building Commissioner: David VanHorn. Hodges.

Municipal Judge: George Y. Chandler. Building Inspector: Charles Roberts.

Chief of Police: Bill D. Adkins. Members of Council: Charles Keefer; Charles Eshenaur; Dana Campbell; Joseph Fire Chief: Joe Ruf. Rumbaugh; Pat Woodrum.

City Attorney: C. Blaine Myers. ______

Public Works Director: Robert Kimble. Womelsdorff—Randolph Members of Council: Barbara Lewis; County Martin Seufer; Ronald Erb; Gene Duncan. Zip Code 26257 ______(Magisterial District: Roaring Creek). Windsor Heights—Brooke County Name of town, Womelsdorff; name of post office, Coalton. Incorporated May 8, 1895, by Zip Code 26075 Circuit Court under the name of Womelsdorff, after O. C. Womelsdorff, Pennsylvanian, the (Magisterial District: Buffalo). first coal operator in that community. Coalton, the post office, derived its name because of the Incorporated November 1, 1989. location in a coal mining center.

Population, approximately 423 (2010 Population, 250 (2010 Census); elevation, Census); elections held every four years on 2,157 feet; volunteer fire department; elections second Tuesday in June; officials take office held every two years on the first Tuesday in July first; next election, June 11, 2013. June; officials take office July first; next election, June 4, 2013. Mayor: William Liposchak. Mayor: James Rossi. Recorder: Linda Stuckey. Section 10 2012:Section 10 6/21/13 2:28 PM Page 757

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Secretary: Carol Silvester.

Members of Council: Jim Ross; Donna Long; Mike Wilson; Levi Wiseman; Pat Rossi.

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Worthington—Marion County

Zip Code 26591

(Magisterial District: Lincoln).

Incorporated in 1893 by the Circuit Court and named for Colonel George Worthington, early settler.

Population, 158 (2010 Census); elevation, 896 feet; volunteer fire department; municipally owned water system and sewer system; elections held every two years on the second Tuesday in June; officials take office July first; next election, June 11, 2013.

Mayor: Sandra Hulsey.

Recorder: Debra Shumate.

Fire Chief: Chris McIntire.

Members of Council: Nick Demus, Jr.; Doris J. Basnett; Mickey Martinez; Gerald Pulic; Roger Shumate.

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WEST VIRGINIA AUTUMN SCENERY (Photograph by Martin Valent, Courtesy of Legislative Office of Reference and Information)