Dairy Queen / Buckhannon City Hall

Dairy Queen, also, Buckhannon City Hall. . , Dairy Queen , Buckhannon's Oldest Fast Foodery , The city's first introduction to a fast food franchise came with the 1954 opening of the Dairy Queen at 58 East Main Street, only fourteen years after the franchise began. The following year it was purchased by the Booth family who continues its operation today. For well more than a half century, people have stepped up to the unchanged vintage windows of this special place, enjoying its sweet treats., Buckhannon City Hall , This present facility was built in 1916 as the Buckhannon Post Office and became City Hall in 1960. On this location also stood the two early Buckhannon Methodist Episcopal Church buildings before the congregation's move to Florida Street in 1941. Looking toward the river you will note a modern bridge on the site of the pre-Civil War Lemuel Chenowith covered bridge that spanned the Buckhannon River., By 1847 the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, a main artery from the Virginia Valley to the Ohio River, had been completed through Buckhannon, entering via Island Avenue and creating much of what is now Main Street. Chenowith, a native of Beverly, WV was a master builder, constructing many turnpike covered bridges. His masterpiece was the bridge at Philippi which is still in use today. Buckhannon's Chenowith bridge was destroyed during the Civil War.