Designed by architect H. Russ Warne in Neo-Classical Revival style. Opened in 1921; replaced first brick courthouse. Features Indiana limestone, Beaux-Arts Classicism in small open-domed belvedere, tetra-style 2-story porticos with Corinthian . . . — — Map (db m138450) HM
County seat, incorporated in 1906 and
named for William Madison Peyton, a leader
in movement for the formation of Boone
County, 1847. Peyton, pioneer in the development of the Coal River Valley, locked and
dammed Coal River in the 1840’s and . . . — — Map (db m138449) HM
Born in 1810 in present-day Boone
County, Methodist minister Robert
Hager was a delegate to the state’s
first constitutional convention in
Wheeling. 1861-1863. He supported
including a provision for gradual
emancipation in WV and also a . . . — — Map (db m138447) HM