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    Beckley is a city in and the county seat of Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 17,286 at the 2020 census, making it the...
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    West Virginia University Institute of Technology (WVU Tech, WVIT, WVU Beckley, or West Virginia Tech) is a public college in Beckley, West Virginia. It...
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    county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 74,591. Its county seat is Beckley. The county was founded in 1850...
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    city in West Virginia; it also serves the cities of Princeton, Beckley, and Parkersburg. I-77 follows the entire length of the West Virginia Turnpike...
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  • university in Beckley, West Virginia. It closed in 2013. It was formerly named Beckley College and then The College of West Virginia. Its Beckley campus is...
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  • with its main campus in Charleston, West Virginia. It also has a location in Beckley, West Virginia, known as UC-Beckley. The school was founded in 1888 as...
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  • in Beckley, West Virginia, and also covering surrounding communities in Fayette, Greenbrier, Raleigh, Summers and Wyoming counties, West Virginia. It...
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    Chris Sarandon (category People from Beckley, West Virginia)
    Dog Day Afternoon (1975). Chris Sarandon was born and raised in Beckley, West Virginia, the son of Greek-American restaurateurs Chris and Cliffie (née...
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    District of West Virginia is one of two federal judicial districts in West Virginia. Court for the Southern District is held at Beckley, Bluefield, Charleston...
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    Gayle Conelly Manchin (category Woodrow Wilson High School (Beckley, West Virginia) alumni)
    governor and current U.S. Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia. Manchin was raised in Beckley, West Virginia, and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School...
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    Coalfields Expressway, a four-lane highway stretching from Beckley, West Virginia, to Pound, Virginia, approximately 108 miles (174 km) in length. It is designed...
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    Cathy Justice (category People from Beckley, West Virginia)
    of West Virginia since 2017. Cathy Leigh Comer, daughter and only child of Thomas Leigh and Virginia Ruth Comer, was born in Beckley, West Virginia and...
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    also known as the General Alfred Beckley Home, is a historic home located at Beckley, Raleigh County, West Virginia. The house is open as the Wildwood...
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  • Charleston, the capital of West Virginia and its most populous city Huntington Parkersburg Morgantown Wheeling Martinsburg Fairmont Beckley Clarksburg   County...
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  • Woodrow Wilson High School (also, just “Beckley”) is a high school in Beckley, West Virginia, teaching grades nine through twelve. It is one of four secondary...
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    Marquee Cinemas (category Beckley, West Virginia)
    Virginia Permanently closed on June 30th, 2024 Wytheville, Virginia Beckley, West Virginia Huntington, West Virginia South Charleston, West Virginia Summersville...
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  • Christa Pike (category People from Beckley, West Virginia)
    Pike was born in 1976 to Carissa Hansen and Emil Glenn Pike in Beckley, West Virginia. Her parents had a tumultuous relationship, being married for two...
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  • Park, a stately home United States Beckley, Louisville, Kentucky Beckley, West Virginia Beckley (surname) Beckley Foundation, a UK-based thinktank This...
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    Tamarack Marketplace is a marketplace in Beckley, West Virginia run by the West Virginia Parkways, Economic Development and Tourism Authority. Tamarack...
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    "Glen Rogers Man To Become State Attorney General". Beckley Post-Herald. Beckley, West Virginia. November 8, 1949. p. 2. Archived from the original on...
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    Morgan Spurlock (category People from Beckley, West Virginia)
    was born on November 7, 1970, in Parkersburg, West Virginia, and was raised in Beckley, West Virginia. His parents, Ben and Phyllis Spurlock, raised...
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    campuses are those of the West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Beckley, Potomac State College of West Virginia University in Keyser, and...
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    Marion Meadows (category Musicians from West Virginia)
    saxophonist and composer, mainly in smooth jazz. He was born in Beckley, West Virginia, and grew up mainly in Connecticut. His first album as a leader...
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  • East Beckley was an unincorporated community located in Raleigh County, West Virginia. Its post office was reopened in February 2014. East Beckley comprised...
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    Alfred Beckley (May 26, 1802 – May 26, 1888) was the founder of Beckley, West Virginia, and a brigadier general in the Virginia militia during the American...
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    Todd Kirby (category Politicians from Beckley, West Virginia)
    Virginia House of Delegates from the 44th district. Kirby was born in Beckley, West Virginia to parents Beverly and Stephen Kirby. He graduated from Liberty...
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    Jon McBride (category Woodrow Wilson High School (Beckley, West Virginia) alumni)
    Charleston, West Virginia, but considers Beckley, West Virginia, to be his hometown. He graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School, Beckley, West Virginia in 1960...
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    Jim Justice (category Woodrow Wilson High School (Beckley, West Virginia) alumni)
    president of Beckley Little League. Justice has been the girls' basketball coach at Greenbrier East High School in Fairlea, West Virginia, since 2003,...
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  • Chris Cline (category Businesspeople from Beckley, West Virginia)
    Illinois and northern Appalachian Mountains. Cline was born in Beckley, West Virginia, on July 5, 1958. Cline's father was Paul Cline. Cline's mother...
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    Tom Carper (category Businesspeople from Beckley, West Virginia)
    was the 71st governor of Delaware from 1993 to 2001. A native of Beckley, West Virginia, Carper graduated from Ohio State University. Serving as a naval...
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