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History · Huttonsville

Huttonsville’s post office opened in 1813, and 19% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listings are the E. E. Hutton House, the Tygarts Valley Church and the Cheat Summit Fort. Below: maps from 1922 on and the census since 1910.

1813first post office

3on the National Register

19%homes built before 1940

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How Huttonsville began

When was Huttonsville founded?

1813

The Huttonsville post office opened in 1813, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 251 in 19102020 census: 163213 years

Founding year: the first Huttonsville post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Huttonsville’s past

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A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Huttonsville are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 308 in 1940; 163 people lived here in 2020.On the map since 19223 editions of the USGS map, 1922 to 1995. Watch Huttonsville change.Deep rootsA post office since 1813: 213 years of Huttonsville.

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Huttonsville, census by census

Peaked at 308 in 1940; 163 people lived here in 2020.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Huttonsville’s Wikipedia page.

On the map

Huttonsville on the map, 1922 to 1995

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Huttonsville. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

1922Durbin sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Huttonsville.

The story

How Huttonsville came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Huttonsville.

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Huttonsville was named for Jonathan Hutton, a pioneer settler.

Located at Huttonsville are the E. E. Hutton House and Tygarts Valley Church, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Located near Huttonsville are the site of Cheat Summit Fort and Fort Marrow, also listed on the Register.

Huttonsville Correctional Center of the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation is located in the area.

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From the old history books

What they wrote about Huttonsville, 1898–1916

Passages that mention Huttonsville, cut from the printed page as they were published.

The town of Huttonsville was named in honor of the Hutton family. Before the war the village was the educational center of the county. Until the coming of the West Virginia Central railroad, it was a county hamlet with postoffice, hotel, church, school house and blacksmith shop. It is now an incorp… — **A history of Randolph County, West Virginia, from its earliest exploration and settlement to the present time**1916 · page 261Read the page →
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The town of Huttonsville was named in honor of the Hutton family. Before the war the village was the educational center of the county. Until the coming of the West Virginia Central railroad, it was a county hamlet with postoffice, hotel, church, school house and blacksmith shop. It is now an incorporated town with a population of 251 according to the census of 1910.
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**The history of Randolph County, West Virginia. From its earliest settlement to the present, embracing records of all the leading families, reminiscences and traditions ..**1898 · page 290Read the page →
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The town of Huttonsville, named from the Hutton family, is noted from the fact that it was the only point west of the Alleghanies at which Governor Letcher's proclamation to the people of West Virginia was published in 1861. The town is at present the terminus of the W. Va. C. & P. R. R.
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Fannie, Abraham, Mary. All, or nearly all, of these were born in Randolph County. Jonathon Hutton came to this county about 1795 and purchased and took up land on the west side of the river near the present village of Huttonsville. He was a surveyor as well as a farmer, and did his surveying with a… — **The history of Randolph County, West Virginia. From its earliest settlement to the present, embracing records of all the leading families, reminiscences and traditions ..**1898 · page 394Read the page →
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Fannie, Abraham, Mary. All, or nearly all, of these were born in Randolph County. Jonathon Hutton came to this county about 1795 and purchased and took up land on the west side of the river near the present village of Huttonsville. He was a surveyor as well as a farmer, and did his surveying with a compass which he marie with his own hands. One of the early enterprises which he undertook was the drilling of a salt well above Huttonsville, but his efforts were not successful. The lands in that part of the valley when he came were covered with forests of oak and walnut. The
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Davis and Honorable Richard Kearns, built magnificent residences on adjacent eminences. On August 18, 1889, trains commenced running into the town. The railroad was extended to Beverly and Belington in 1891, and to Huttonsville a few years later. A branch was also built, known as the C. & I., conne… — **A history of Randolph County, West Virginia, from its earliest exploration and settlement to the present time**1916 · page 255Read the page →
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Davis and Honorable Richard Kearns, built magnificent residences on adjacent eminences. On August 18, 1889, trains commenced running into the town. The railroad was extended to Beverly and Belington in 1891, and to Huttonsville a few years later. A branch was also built, known as the C. & I., connecting with the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad at Durbin. The Coal & Coke, though entering the city over the Western Maryland tracks, entered the city over its own road
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.

Timeline

Huttonsville, 1813 to 1940

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

19th century
1813Post officeThe Huttonsville post office opens
20th century
1922On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
1940CensusPopulation peaks at 308

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On the National Register

3 historic places in Huttonsville

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

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1975

E. E. Hutton House

BuildingsSites

Architectural styles listings

Victorian1

Victorian Gothic1

E. E. Hutton HouseVictorian

Tygarts Valley ChurchVictorian Gothic

Cheat Summit FortSite

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Questions about Huttonsville’s history

What year was Huttonsville founded?

The Huttonsville post office opened in 1813, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Huttonsville?

Three places: the E. E. Hutton House (listed 1975), the Tygarts Valley Church (1986) and the Cheat Summit Fort (1990).

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From the National Register of Historic Places (3), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.

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