Home › West Virginia › Kanawha County

Kanawha County, West Virginia

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

94historic places

—earliest paper

1789formed

180,745pop. 2020

171cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 94 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1970. Most listings are in or near Charleston, St. Albans, Institute.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for West Virginia is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Kanawha titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

67 of 94 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

94 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
African Zion Baptist Church	Malden	Building	1974
Bank of St. Albans Building	St. Albans	Building	1988
Barnes-Wellford House	Charleston	Building	1984
Beeches, The	St. Albans	Building	1979
Beni Kedem Shrine Temple	Charleston	Building	2024
Bird Haven	Charleston	Building	1984
Bougemont Complex	Charleston	Building	1984
Breezemont	Charleston	Building	1982
Briarwood	Charleston	Building	1984
Canty House	Institute	Building	1988
Carter G. Woodson School	St. Albans	Building	2025
Cedar Grove	Cedar Grove	Building	1975
Charleston Baptist Temple	Charleston	Building	2000
Charleston City Hall	Charleston	Building	1988
Charleston Municipal Auditorium	Charleston	Building	1999
Charmco Building	Charleston	Building	2020
Chesapeake and Ohio Depot	Charleston	Building	1984
Chilton House	St. Albans	Building	1977
Chilton, W. E. II, House	Charleston	Building	1984
Clendenin Historic District	Clendenin	District	1996
Coal River Locks, Dams, and Log Booms Archeological District	Alum Creek	District	1997
Cox-Morton House	Charleston	Building	1984
Cox-Parks House	Charleston	Building	1984
Craik-Patton House	Charleston	Building	1970
Crawford-Gardner House	Charleston	Building	1984
Dalgain	Charleston	Building	1984
Daniel Boone Hotel	Charleston	Building	1984
Danner-Fletcher House	Charleston	Building	1984
Downtown Charleston Historic District (Additional Documentation)	Charleston	District	2006
Dutch Hollow Wine Cellars	Dunbar	Structure	1970
East End Historic District	Charleston	District	1978
East End Historic District (Boundary Increase)	Charleston	District	2014
East Hall	Institute	Building	1988
Ebenezer Chapel	Marmet	Building	1974
Edgewood Historic District	Charleston	District	1989
Edwards William H. & William S., House	Coalburg	Building	1990
Elk City Historic District	Charleston	District	2008
Five Corners Historic District	Charleston	District	2022
Fort Scammon	Charleston	Site	1976
Garnet High School	Charleston	Building	1990
Gilliland, William S., Log Cabin and Cemetery	Charleston	Building	1984
Gilmore, Elizabeth Harden, House	Charleston	District	1988
Good Shepherd Church	Coalburg	Building	1990
Grosscup Road Historic District	Charleston	District	1984
Hansford, Felix G., House	Hansford	Building	1984
Harriman, John, House	East Bank	Building	1978
Holly Grove Mansion	Charleston	Building	1974
Kanawha & Michigan Railway Depot Warehouse	Charleston	Building	2024
Kanawha County Courthouse	Charleston	Building	1978
Kanawha State Forest Historic District (Additional Documentation)	Loundendale	District	1993
Kearse Theater	Charleston	Building	1980
Laidley-Summers-Quarrier House	Charleston	Building	1978
Lee, Mattie V., Home	Charleston	Building	1992
Little Brick Church	Cedar Grove	Building	1974
Littlepage Stone Mansion	Charleston	Building	1982
Loewenstein and Sons Hardware Building	Charleston	Building	1985
Luna Park Historic District	Charleston	District	2012
MacFarland House	Charleston	Building	1979
Malden Historic District	Malden	District	1980
Maple Terrace Court and Walton Apartments	Charleston	Building	2002
McAndrews-Gallaher House	Charleston	Building	1984
McClung's Price Place	Lewisburg	Building	2007
Mohler, William E., House	St. Albans	Building	1983
Plaza Theatre	Charleston	Building	1985
Pratt Historic District	Pratt	District	1984
Shrewsbury, Samuel, Sr., House	Belle	Building	1978
Simpson Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church	Charleston	Building	1991
Smith-Giltinan House	Charleston	Building	2002
South Charleston Mound	South Charleston	Structure	1970
Spring Hill Cemetery Historic District	Charleston	District	1985
St. Albans Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Depot	St. Albans	Building	1997
St. Albans Main Street Historic District	St. Albans	District	2000
St. Albans Post Office	St. Albans	Building	1994
St. Albans Railroad Industry Historic District	St. Albans	District	2021
St. Albans Site	St. Albans	Site	1974
St. John's Episcopal Church	Charleston	Building	1989
St. Mark's Episcopal Church	St. Albans	Building	1977
St. Paul Baptist Church	St. Albans	Building	1998
Starks, Samuel, House	Charleston	Building	1988
Sterrett Brothers' Dry Goods Store	Charleston	Building	2001
Stoneleigh	Charleston	Building	1984
Summers House	Charleston	Building	2015
Sunrise	Charleston	Building	1974
Thomas-McJunkin-Love House	Charleston	Building	1984
Tiskelwah School	Charleston	Building	2023
United Carbon Building	Charleston	Building	1994
Washington, Booker T., High School	London	Building	1999
Weimer, James, House	St. Albans	Building	2004
West Virginia Capitol Complex	Charleston	District	1974
West Virginia Schools for the Colored Deaf & Blind	Institute	Building	2021
West Virginia State University Faculty House Historic District	Institute	District	2021
Wood, Col. Henry Hewitt, House	Charleston	Building	1980
Woodrums' Building	Charleston	Building	1996
Young-Noyes House	Charleston	Building	1991

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Kanawha was formed in 1789 (1789-10-01) from Greenbrier, Montgomery.

KANAWHA created by Virginia from GREENBRIER and MONTGOMERY.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Kanawha County population from 1800 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1800	1820	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
3,239	6,399	13,567	16,150	32,466	54,696	119,650	195,619	239,629	252,925	231,414	200,073	180,745

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

171 cemeteries and 17 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 80 of 171 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Adkins Cemetery	38.33453	-81.65511
Albert E Humphreys Memorial Cemetery	38.53003	-81.6294
Altz Cemetery	38.47176	-81.67263
Amos Haynes Cemetery	38.58482	-81.52401
Asbury Cemetery	38.5492	-81.67794
Asbury Cemetery	38.58167	-81.72061
Bangor Cemetery	38.37683	-81.80674
Baxter Cemetery	38.50174	-81.5341
Bays Cemetery	38.33882	-81.77584
Berry Cemetery	38.57745	-81.57116
Bess Cemetery	38.37922	-81.72431
Blakley Cemetery	38.29225	-81.30513
Boggess Cemetery	38.56159	-81.6822
Brick Cemetery	38.40121	-81.73874
Britton Cemetery	38.55064	-81.7476
Brown Cemetery	38.36365	-81.54144
Bryan Cemetery	38.35404	-81.87243
Burdette - Walker Cemetery	38.44333	-81.56756
Canterbury Cemetery	38.53917	-81.36865
Casdorph Cemetery	38.40982	-81.68096
Cavender Family Cemetery	38.45278	-81.58138
Chandler Cemetery	38.51806	-81.4427
Childress Cemetery	38.29976	-81.75588
Clark Cemetery	38.5537	-81.74124
Clendenin Cemetery	38.57505	-81.54707
Cline Cemetery	38.34522	-81.50939
College Hill Cemetery	38.3812	-81.83541
Cooper Cemetery	38.20094	-81.5354
Crank Cemetery	38.54508	-81.67679
Cummings Cemetery	38.51349	-81.35465
Cunningham Memorial Park	38.37565	-81.81541
Dawson Cemetery	38.53807	-81.62545
Dawson Cemetery	38.55925	-81.58179
Deer Run - Keaton - Myers Cemetery	38.43774	-81.45715
Deverick Cemetery	38.51203	-81.32706
Donahue Cemetery	38.53799	-81.43655
Donel C Kinnard Memorial State Veterans Cemetery	38.38085	-81.75719
Dry Branch Cemetery	38.18149	-81.4665
Dunlap Cemetery	38.37486	-81.85366
Dutch Ridge Chapel Cemetery	38.39249	-81.3592
Fisher Cemetery	38.33371	-81.56984
Fisher Cemetery	38.51271	-81.64208
Floral Hills Garden of Memories Cemetery	38.48639	-81.66514
Foster Cemetery	38.10538	-81.51456
Fougharty Cemetery	38.50573	-81.52545
French Cemetery	38.32176	-81.69151
Frye Cemetery	38.18649	-81.57956
Given Cemetery	38.44835	-81.50877
Glendale Cemetery	38.35787	-81.6879
Godd Cemetery	38.46184	-81.65861
Good Shepherd Church Cemetery	38.21213	-81.45391
Goodwin Cemetery	38.21689	-81.35616
Graceland Cemetery	38.31843	-81.7254
Grandview Memorial Cemetery	38.36787	-81.74068
Green Cemetery	38.14288	-81.55012
Greencastle Cemetery	38.0607	-81.3727
Hanes Cemetery	38.4807	-81.60479
Hanson Cemetery	38.35593	-81.55762
Harper Cemetery	38.49759	-81.27122
Harper Cemetery	38.5128	-81.25695
Hawks Cemetery	38.22705	-81.59929
Hayes Cemetery	38.42648	-81.39178
Hayes Cemetery	38.47858	-81.3758
Haynes Cemetery	38.59509	-81.51984
Henley Cemetery	38.34823	-81.85997
Hensley Cemetery	38.1851	-81.45734
Hess Cemetery	38.34121	-81.59179
Hindsman Cemetery	38.5149	-81.32985
Hoffman Cemeteries	38.20732	-81.6079
Hope Cemetery	38.36787	-81.62262
Hunt - Donnally Cemetery	38.34872	-81.58234
Hunt Cemetery	38.54816	-81.46213
Hunter Cemetery	38.35521	-81.49674
Hunter Cemetery 2	38.36261	-81.49558
Independent Order of Oddfellows Cemetery	38.21594	-81.44012
Jarrett Cemetery	38.43502	-81.48359
John Beane Cemetery	38.52259	-81.62568
Johnson Cemetery	38.0665	-81.4015
Jones Cemetery	38.57609	-81.53714
Jones Cemetery	38.45998	-81.56131

Historical populated places — 17 of 17

Name	Lat	Lon
Apgah	38.42538	-81.30262
Ballard	38.29947	-81.80819
Barlow	38.39454	-81.58262
Calvert	38.37028	-81.83972
Carney	38.55093	-81.58596
Copenhaver	38.43121	-81.52207
Fuquay	38.31264	-81.81172
Gazil	38.38482	-81.32039
Heatherman	38.47677	-81.31151
Indian	38.36833	-81.82611
Lincoln	38.31625	-81.84245
Mink	38.4376	-81.57207
Morris	38.36343	-81.36512
Mound	38.37148	-81.70901
Rand	38.50649	-81.24595
Rosina	38.40177	-81.28039
Villa	38.37538	-81.50484

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

Marker text and photos from the Historical Marker Database (HMdb) are not embedded here. HMdb allows non-commercial reuse with attribution, but commercial/compensated use needs written permission; this is a commercial site, so we only link out.

Search HMdb for Kanawha County, West Virginia

Terms: hmdb.org/copyright.asp. Linking is encouraged by HMdb.