Beckley

Named for John James Beckley, father of Alfred Beckley
Population 2010 Census: 17,614
Median Age: 41.6 years

Courthouse: Completed 1937
Architect: Ludwig T. Bengston

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Primary Sources Online
Roy Lee Harmon
Cornelius H. Charlton
Dedication of West Virginia Turnpike, 1954
1960 Presidential Campaign in Raleigh County
Mine and Safety Academy, 1976

Civil War
Hard Fighting and Safe Retreat, 1861
From Gen. Floyd's Camp, 1861
A Distinguished Rebel Prisoner, 1862
Special Orders No. 150, 1862
Encounter near Beckley, 1863
Biographical Sketch of William S. Dunbar
Raleigh County Union Militia Letters, Folder 1
Raleigh County Union Militia Letters, Folder 2
Raleigh County Union Militia Letters, Folder 5

Photographs
Photographs of Schools in Raleigh County

Secondary Sources Online
List of Raleigh County Legislators
Clarence Watson Meadows
Hulett Carlson Smith

West Virginia Veterans Memorial Biographies
Paul Adamos
Warren Steele Adams
Bobby Wayne Armes
Thomas Campbell Bibb
Earl Roger Biggs
Jackie Everett Bolen Jr.
William Creed Brogan
Fred Bsharah
Cornelius H. Charlton
Edgle Woodrow Cole
John Michael Davis
Thomas James Edgell
Jack Ronald Hartley
Thedford Thomas and Lamer Lynell Hughes
Robert William Hunt
Lewis Milton Larew
Willie Thomas Lewis
Willard S. Lilly
Orville Lee McGinnis
Ralph Ohley Osborne
James Thomas Rasco
Mark S. Reed
Earl Junior Sanders
Bulah Smith
Sara Blanche Vance
Denver Walker
William Arnett Wills

History of the American Negro Biographies
Jonathan Sebastian Butts
William Garfield Capel
Joseph Meredith Grandison
Henry Clay Hargrove
Cornelius Nathaniel Harris
Robert James Howard
David Carter Hunter
Edward Leroy Morton
Brown Wesley Payne
William Robert Woodson
Birton Linward Zeiglar