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    Philippi ('FILL-uh-pea') is a city in and the county seat of Barbour County, West Virginia, United States, along the Tygart Valley River. The population...
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    of Philippi formed part of the Western Virginia Campaign of the American Civil War and was fought in and around Philippi, Virginia (now West Virginia),...
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    Appalachian Mountains to the Virginia border. U.S. 250 in West Virginia includes the Philippi Covered Bridge at Philippi, the only covered bridge on the...
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    county in north central West Virginia, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 15,465. The county seat is Philippi, which was chartered in...
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    The Philippi Covered Bridge, on the Tygart Valley River, is the main local landmark and historical icon of Philippi, West Virginia, USA. The celebrated...
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    Alderson Broaddus University (category Baptist Christianity in West Virginia)
    Alderson Broaddus University (AB) was a private Baptist university in Philippi, West Virginia. It was founded in 1871 and suspended its operations on August...
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  • West Virginia is a state located in the Southern United States. There are 232 municipalities. Largest municipalities in West Virginia by population Charleston...
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  • Golan Heights Philippi (Caria), an ancient town in Caria, now in Turkey Philippi, West Virginia, a city in the United States Philippi, Cape Town, South...
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    the benefit of higher education. Alderson Broaddus College in Philippi, West Virginia, US, sponsored the organization, which moved its offices to the...
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    Ted Cassidy (category People from Philippi, West Virginia)
    in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, of Irish ancestry, and raised in Philippi, West Virginia. In his youth, he was academically gifted and attended third grade...
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    The Philippi Historic District (PHD) is national historic district located at Philippi, Barbour County, West Virginia, USA. It encompasses 113 contributing...
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    Appalachian Mountains to the Virginia border. U.S. 250 in West Virginia includes the Philippi Covered Bridge at Philippi, the only covered bridge on the...
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    The 2000 United States presidential election in West Virginia took place on November 7, 2000, as part of the 2000 United States presidential election...
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    Western Virginia regiments, under General George McClellan drove off Confederate troops under General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Philippi in Barbour...
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    supplies and tents behind, so the Battle of Philippi (West Virginia) would sometimes be called the "Philippi Races." Gen. Lee soon replaced Porterfield...
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    The Philippi station is a historic train station in Philippi, West Virginia, United States. Built in 1911, the Mission style building is an unusual representative...
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    Alston G. Dayton (category People from Philippi, West Virginia)
    in Philippi, Virginia (now West Virginia), Dayton attended the public schools, read law and received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from West Virginia University...
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  • Barbour County Schools (category School districts in West Virginia)
    operating school district within Barbour County, West Virginia. Its main office is located in Philippi. Barbour County Schools is run by the Barbour County...
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    retreated to Philippi where, on June 3, they were defeated by a Union force which included the 1st Virginia Infantry. The Battle of Philippi was the first...
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  • The Barbour Democrat (category Barbour County, West Virginia)
    Barbour Democrat is a weekly newspaper published on Wednesdays in Philippi, West Virginia. It is the only newspaper published in Barbour County and has a...
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    those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United...
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    members of the G-MAC. At the same time, the G-MAC announced that three West Virginia schools had accepted invitations to join the conference, starting in...
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  • station Philippi B & O Railroad Station in Philippi, West Virginia Wheeling Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Passenger Station in Wheeling, West Virginia Stations...
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  • Chestnut Ridge people (category Ethnic groups in West Virginia)
    community concentrated in an area northeast of Philippi, Barbour County in north-central West Virginia, with smaller related communities in the adjacent...
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    The West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WVIAC) was a collegiate athletic conference which historically operated exclusively in the state...
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    Present Maxwell, Hu (1899), The History of Barbour County, West Virginia; page 277, The Philippi Bridge A Sorting this column will result in bridges being...
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  • Scott Mayle (category People from Philippi, West Virginia)
    Scott Mayle (born October 14, 1983 in Philippi, West Virginia) is a former American football wide receiver. He was signed by the Buffalo Bills as an undrafted...
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    example of this is the Barbour County Courthouse (1903–05) in Philippi, West Virginia. Hummelstown brownstone and similar sandstones were known as “freestone”...
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  • University closing permanently at end of 2020 spring semester". Times West Virginian. Fairmont, WV. Retrieved April 23, 2020. "Former Andersen Airman recalls...
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    The 2000 West Virginia gubernatorial election took place on November 7, 2000. Incumbent Republican governor Cecil Underwood ran for re-election to a second...
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