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    Braxton County is a county in the central part of the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 12,447. The county seat is...
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  • Canfield is an unincorporated community in Braxton County, West Virginia, United States. Some say the community was named after B. T. Canfield, a local...
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    Flatwoods monster (also known as the Braxton County monster, Braxie, or the Phantom of Flatwoods), in West Virginia folklore, is a creature reported to...
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    a town in Braxton County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 876 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Braxton County. Sutton is...
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    Flatwoods is a town in Braxton County, West Virginia, United States, located approximately one mile from exit 67 of Interstate 79. The population of Flatwoods...
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    Pendleton and other conservative planters. Braxton was born on Newington Plantation in King and Queen County, Virginia, on September 10, 1736, but wrongly reported...
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  • unincorporated community in Braxton County, West Virginia, United States. It was so named because it is in the central part of a county which also happens to...
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  • Braxton County Schools is the operating school district within Braxton County, West Virginia. It is governed by the Braxton County Board of Education,...
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    Gassaway is a town in Braxton County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 769 at the 2020 census. Gassaway was incorporated in 1905 and named...
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    Exchange is an unincorporated community and ghost town in Braxton County, West Virginia, United States that has the ZIP code of 26619. The town was a...
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  • Arnett is an unincorporated community in Braxton County, West Virginia, United States. Arnett is 5 miles (8.0 km) southwest of Burnsville. "US Board on...
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  • unincorporated community in Braxton County, West Virginia, United States. Corley is located along Saltlick Creek and County Route 22, 2.9 miles (4.7 km)...
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  • Caress is an unincorporated community in Braxton County, West Virginia, United States. A post office called Caress was established in 1888, and remained...
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  • Braxton may refer to: Braxton, Mississippi, a village Braxton County, West Virginia Braxton (given name), a list of people with the given name Braxton...
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    tributaries are the Holly River and the Birch River, both of which join it in Braxton County. The upper portion of the river, above Sutton Lake, is a popular coldwater...
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    Burnsville is a town in Braxton County, West Virginia, United States, at the confluence of the Little Kanawha River and Saltlick Creek. The population...
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  • Tague is an unincorporated community in Braxton County, West Virginia, United States, along the Right Fork Steer Creek. The community took its name from...
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  • James Childers (category People from Braxton County, West Virginia)
    four of the victims on the family farm in Braxton County, and another one was discarded in Barbour County. He additionally named other potential victims...
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    The environment of West Virginia encompasses terrain and ecosystems ranging from plateaus to mountains. Most of West Virginia lies within the Appalachian...
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    35.45%, sweeping every county in the state. Romney became the first presidential candidate from any party since West Virginia's admission to the Union...
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    follows a meandering course generally west-northwestwardly, through Lewis, Braxton, Gilmer, Calhoun, Wirt and Wood Counties, past the communities of Burnsville...
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  • Battle of Bulltown (category Braxton County, West Virginia)
    skirmish fought during the American Civil War near Bulltown in Braxton County, West Virginia on October 13, 1863. In the fall of 1863, William Lowther Jackson...
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    Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. West Virginia was admitted as a separate...
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  • community on the border of Braxton and Nicholas counties, West Virginia, United States, located just west of the Webster County line on the road from Bays...
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    a census-designated place (CDP) on the Kanawha River in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 1,631...
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  • Thumbnail for National Register of Historic Places listings in Braxton County, West Virginia
    list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Braxton County, West Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and...
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    Randolph Expressway, named for the West Virginia representative and senator. In the three most northern counties, it is signed as part of the High Tech...
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  • Braxton County High School (BCHS) is a high school located in Sutton, West Virginia, United States. The school includes grades 9–12, and serves all of...
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    county was founded in 1860 and named for Daniel Webster. Webster County was formed from parts of Nicholas, Braxton, and Randolph counties in Virginia...
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  • William J. Carpenter (category People from Braxton County, West Virginia)
    History of Braxton County and Central West Virginia, McClain Printing Co., Parsons, W.Va., 1919, pp. 360-361. Jim Comstock: The West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia...
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