Cottageville, West Virginia

Cottageville
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 38°51′56″N 81°49′24″W / 38.86556°N 81.82333°W / 38.86556; -81.82333Coordinates: 38°51′56″N 81°49′24″W / 38.86556°N 81.82333°W / 38.86556; -81.82333
Country	United States
State	West Virginia
County	Jackson
Time zone	Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
ZIP codes	25239

Cottageville (also Moores Mill, Rhodess Mill, or Wrights Mill) is an unincorporated community in western Jackson County, West Virginia, United States. It lies along West Virginia Route 331 northwest of the city of Ripley, the county seat of Jackson County.^[1] Established in 1858, its elevation is 594 feet (181 m).^[2] Although Cottageville is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 25239.^[3] It also is the site of the annual Jackson County Junior Fair. Michael Coleman, a well known early Indian fighter, was killed and buried in the area, according to a historical marker placed by the state of WV. The wooden Grist Mill located here since the 1840s burned to the ground in the summer of 1965. Its foundation stones remain. It had remained in operation full-time until 1930, part-time until 1937. Cottageville was a commercial center with a bank, newspaper, tannery, blacksmith, several stores, a railroad station on the B & O and many other businesses in the early part of the twentieth century. Its heyday faded with the closing of the mill and the improvement of roads in the county. The B & O pulled up its tracks to the county seat, Ripley, in the mid-nineteen-sixties. Less than a mile from the old town, the county operated what folks called the "poor farm," an early version of a welfare commune. That closed in the thirties with the New Deal. That land is now the Jackson County Junior Fairgrounds.

References

↑ DeLorme. West Virginia Atlas & Gazetteer. 4th ed. Yarmouth: DeLorme, 2007, p. 32-33. ISBN 0-89933-327-3.
↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Cottageville, West Virginia, Geographic Names Information System, 1980-06-27. Accessed 2008-05-31.
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Municipalities and communities of Jackson County, West Virginia, United States

County seat: Ripley

Cities	Ravenswood Ripley

Unincorporated communities	Advent Angerona Belgrove Cottageville Crow Summit Cuba Danstown Drift Run Duncan Estar Evans Evergreen Hills Fairplain Flatwoods Fletcher Foster Chapel Frozencamp Garfield Gay Given Goldtown Hemlock Hereford Hills Crossing Independence Jones Crossing Kenna Kentuck LeRoy Liverpool‡ Lockhart Lone Cedar Loop Louther Marshall McClain Meadowdale Medina Millwood Morgan Mt. Alto Mount Moriah Mount Tell Murray Murraysville Muses Bottom Neptune Nesselroad New Era North Ravenswood Nuzums Oak Hill Odaville Parchment Valley Pleasant Hill Pleasant View Plum Orchard Polk Providence Ripley Landing Rock Castle Romance Salt Hill Sandyville Shatto Sherman Sidneyville Silverton Skidmore Skull Run Statts Mills The Y Topins Grove Utica Varner Wilding Willowdale Wiseburg Young

Ghost towns	Aplin Beatysville Browning Buffalo Edgar Huntsville July‡ Mentor Mozelle Runkle School House Willow Grove

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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