Huntington, West Virginia Huntington, West Virginia Clockwise: the Paul Ambrose Trail for Health (PATH), Fourth Avenue, the downtown horizon as seen from athwart the Ohio River, Harris Riverfront Park, and the Huntington Welcome Center at Heritage Station.
Clockwise: the Paul Ambrose Trail for Health (PATH), Fourth Avenue, the downtown horizon as seen from athwart the Ohio River, Harris Riverfront Park, and the Huntington Welcome Center at Heritage Station.
Flag of Huntington, West Virginia Flag Official seal of Huntington, West Virginia Nickname(s): The Jewel City / The River City / The River & Rail City / Train City Location in Cabell County and the state of West Virginia.
Location in Cabell County and the state of West Virginia.
State West Virginia Huntington is a town/city in Cabell and Wayne counties in the U.S.
State of West Virginia.
It is the governmental center of county of Cabell County, and biggest city in the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area, sometimes alluded to as the Tri-State Area.
A historic and bustling town/city of commerce and heavy industry, Huntington has long-flourished due to its ideal locale on the Ohio River at the mouth of the Guyandotte River.
It is home to the Port of Huntington Tri-state, the busiest inland port in the United States.
This locale was chose by Collis Potter Huntington as ideal for the end of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, the predecessor of what would turn into CSX Transportation which still operates CSX Transportation-Huntington Division in the town/city to date.
The barns established Huntington as one of the nation's first prepared communities to facilitate the barns and other transit related industries at the stockyards s terminus.
Developing fast after the barns 's culmination in 1871, the site was previously a compilation of agricultural homesteads, and is eponymously titled for the barns company's founder Collis Potter Huntington.
As of the 2010 census, the urbane region is the biggest in West Virginia. It spans 7 counties athwart 3 states, with a populace of 365,419. Huntington is the second biggest city in West Virginia, with a populace of 49,138 at the 2010 census.
The town/city is the home of Marshall University as well as the Huntington Museum of Art; the Big Sandy Superstore Arena; the U.S.
Huntington Historical Society and Railroad Museum; Camden Park, one of the world's earliest amusement parks; the command posts of the CSX Transportation-Huntington Division, the biggest division in the CSX network; the Special Metals Plant; and the Port of Huntington Tri-State, the biggest river port in the United States.
The biggest employers are Marshall University, Cabell Huntington Hospital, St.
Motion picture We Are Marshall and the 2010 ABC series Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution were filmed in Huntington.
8 Huntington Fire Department 13.2 Huntington Prep Huntington is in the southwestern corner of West Virginia, on the border with Ohio, on the southern bank of the Ohio River, at the confluence with the Guyandotte River.
The town/city lies inside the ecoregion of the Western Allegheny Plateau. Most of the town/city is in Cabell County, for which it is the county seat. A portion of the city, mainly the neighborhood of Westmoreland, is in Wayne County.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 18.46 square miles (47.81 km2), of which 16.22 square miles (42.01 km2) is territory and 2.24 square miles (5.80 km2) is water. The Guyandotte River joins the Ohio River about 5 miles (8.0 km) east of downtown.
Huntington fills the approximately three-mile wide flood plain of the south bank of the Ohio River for eighty square blocks and portions of the hills to the immediate south and southeast.
Map of the Greater Huntington Metro Area.
Huntington was established on lightly populated lands near Guyandotte as a C&O Railroad hub, on the southern bank of the Ohio River, at the confluence with the Guyandotte River.
The site is at the southwestern corner of West Virginia on the border with the state of Ohio and near the border of both states with Kentucky.
Discounting the reconstructionof French ownership, the territory that was part of Guyandotte and later Huntington was originally part of the 28,628-acre (115.85 km2) French and Indian War veteran's Savage Grant.
The region of greater Huntington, although situated in a Southern state, was originally settled as early as 1609 and was long considered a town/city in what was then the Colony of Virginia since the first permanent settlements were established in 1775 in defiance of British injunctions against settlements west of the Alleghenies in the vicinity of Holderby's Landing. Historically, the old Federal Era town of Guyandotte (now a neighborhood combined into Huntington proper) was first assembled upon in 1609 by French setters of the Ohio Valley, and has homes dating back to 1820 and a graveyard including 18th-century French and Colonial-era settlers, including surnames such as Le - Tulle, Holderby, and Buffington.
A farmer James Holderby (1782 1855) purchased the lands in 1821 upon which much of Huntington now stands which is why the region was known as Holderby's Landing before to 1870-71 when it was incorporated and retitled; Holderby's estate encompassed the ted in 1837 to found what is now Marshall University.
Most of the town/city is in Cabell County, of which it is the county seat. Huntington is influenced by Appalachian Culture, Southern culture, Midwestern culture, and Mid-Atlantic culture.
It is often alluded to as one of the northernmost metros/cities in the South or one of the southernmost metros/cities in the North.
The Huntington Metro Area is sometimes called KYOWVA, an acronym that refers to the three states that make up the region, (Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia).
As of the 2010 census, the Huntington Metro Area is the biggest in West Virginia with a populace of 365,419.
Huntington is combined with Charleston, the state capital, as the Huntington-Charleston TV market, the 64th-largest in the nation. See also: Timeline of Huntington, West Virginia Huntington, founder of the City of Huntington.
The undivided City of Huntington was established by Collis P.
Emmons as the end for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) on a tract of territory west of the mouth of the Guyandotte River, between the Ohio River and Twelve Pole Creek.
Huntington was one of the "Big Four" of railroading who assembled the Central Pacific Railroad as part of the first U.S.
Huntington was created as a core for the C&O, which, once instead of in 1873, fulfilled a long-held dream of the Virginias to have a rail link from the James River at Richmond, Virginia to the Ohio River Valley.
The new barns facilities contiguous to the Ohio River resulted in expansion of the former small town of Guyandotte into part of a large new town/city called Huntington.
The town/city was incorporated in 1871 just west of the earlier town/city of Guyandotte.
Guyandotte, which became a neighborhood of Huntington in 1891, was established in 1799 on territory that was originally part of the 28,628-acre (115.85 km2) French and Indian War veteran's Savage Grant. Meriwether Lewis passed the Guyandotte and Big Sandy River peninsula on or about September 20, 1803, on his way down the Ohio River before meeting up with William Clark in Clarksville, Ind.
Huntington was the second American town/city to feature electric street cars in the early years (after San Francisco), until they were gradually replaced with gasoline-powered buses.
Huntington's "boom" reconstructionoccurred from the beginning in 1871 until the Great Flood of 1937, which claimed 5 lives, caused millions of dollars in damage, left tens of thousands homeless, and led to the creation of Huntington's floodwalls in 1938.
Of the 40,000 citizens residing in the flooded areas of Huntington, 25,000 were made refugees as fresh water and fuel was scarce.
Although Huntington successfully shifted the focus of its economy and remains a viable city, the populace has never rebounded to its industrial-era highs.
Huntington has seen a primary revival since the opening of the Pullman Square Town Center on the vacant lot formerly known as the "Superblock" in 2005, the recording of the Warner Bros.
During the late 2000s recession, Huntington remained economically strong, adding jobs when most metros/cities were losing them, and becoming one of the several metros/cities in the United States to see housing property values rise. The undivided Huntington Metro Area spans 7 counties athwart 3 states and is the biggest in West Virginia with a populace of more than 360,000.
The biggest employers are Marshall University, Cabell Huntington Hospital, St.
Efforts to redevelop Huntington started with the assembly of the $10.5 million Huntington Civic Arena, which was the biggest arena in the state when it opened in 1977.
After renovation in 1997, and 2010, the arena has now been encompassed in Billboard Magazine's "New or Renovated Venues to Watch" list for 2013. Huntington's arena landed at No.
The Huntington Mall, the biggest mall in the state, opened a several years after the Arena in 1981. When the mall was built, the only other businesses around it were two bars and an Exxon gas station.
Since the mall's opening, a several retailers have assembled around the mall, including four hotels and a several restaurants, as well as a Walmart Supercenter, the first Best Buy in West Virginia, and the first Sheetz gas station/convenience store in southern West Virginia. The Huntington Mall has a annual economic impact of close to $400 million.
The Huntington Welcome Center and the Shops at Heritage Station, as seen from athwart Veterans Memorial Blvd.
The complex contains an initial steam engine with a "Pullman" train car, and a building that used to home one of Huntington's first banks which was the easternmost bank robbed by the James-Younger Gang.
For decades, the beautiful station sat hidden and virtually unused just two blocks from the town/city center, until Create Huntington got involved in 2006.
In 2017, Huntington joined a host of other municipalities and small-town governments in the region suing eight pharmaceutical companies, claiming their products harmed Huntington's welfare, dominant to a drug crisis in the town/city and encircling county.
At the time of Huntington's founding, Holderby's Landing was already the home of Marshall College State Normal School (now Marshall University).
The landmark Old Main, which now serves as the major administrative building for the university, was assembled on territory known as Maple Grove, at the time the home of the Mount Hebron Church in what was then the state of Virginia. John Laidley, a small-town lawyer, hosted the meeting which led to the beginning of Marshall Academy, which was titled after Laidley's friend, the notable John Marshall who had served as the fourth Chief Justice of the United States from January 1801 to July 1835.
On March 30, 1838, the institution was formally dedicated by the Virginia General Assembly as Marshall Academy. In 1858, the Virginia General Assembly changed the name to Marshall College. On June 20, 1863, Cabell County, Virginia, was one of the 50 counties separated from Virginia at the height of the American Civil War to form the State of West Virginia, and the college fell inside the new state.
In 1867, the West Virginia Legislature rededicated the institution as a teacher training facility and retitled it State Normal School of Marshall College. This began the history of the college as a state-supported post-secondary institution.
On November 14, 1970, a chartered Southern Airways Mc - Donnell-Douglas DC-9 jet transporting 75 Marshall University football players, coaches, staff, and supporters crashed just short of the Tri-State Airport in adjoining Ceredo, West Virginia.
Because of its position in the westernmost and lowest region of the state, the town/city is on the northern limits of a humid subtropical climate (Koppen Cfa), unlike the "highlands" of West Virginia, which are in the Allegheny Mountains and the Appalachian Mountains.
Huntington is made humid by the Ohio River, but summers are not as hot as they are further south and west.
Climate data for Huntington, West Virginia (1981 2010 normals) Main article: Cityscape of Huntington, West Virginia Huntington's central company precinct is directly between the Ohio River and the CSX Railroad track, east of the Robert C.
Since its beginning as the end of the C&O Railroad, Huntington has served as a primary break of bulk point between rail traffic and the Ohio River/Mississippi River watershed.
The Huntington Division is still the biggest in the CSX Transportation network.
The Huntington District is the biggest of 10 operating divisions on the network.
It serves the states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Ohio.
CSX's Huntington Division chief office is in the historic former C&O traveler station downtown. Several heavy industrialized plants line the Ohio River and the Guyandotte River including the Port of Huntington-Tristate, the biggest port in West Virginia and the 8th-largest in the United States.
It is the nation's biggest inland port. Included in the port's region is 100 miles (160 km) of the Ohio River from the mouth of the Scioto River in Portsmouth, Ohio to the northern border of Gallia County, Ohio, 9 miles (14 km) of the Big Sandy River, and 90 miles (140 km) of the Kanawha River. Huntington is generally divided into four chief sections.
West Huntington Downtown Huntington The Downtown Huntington Historic District is a nationwide historic district.
Notable buildings include Huntington City Hall, Johnson Memorial Church (c.1886/1912/1935), Trinity Episcopal Church (1882), Davis Opera House (c.
1902), the Frederick Building (1906) the Morrison Building (1919), Keith-Albee Theater (1928), West Virginia Building (c.
Arguably, the most famous attraction in Huntington is Keith-Albee Theatre, a former Vaudeville palace in the "Art Deco" style from the 1920s and one of the architectural masterpieces of Downtown Huntington, on Fourth Avenue.
The Ritter Park Historic District is a nationwide historic precinct in South Side.
The precinct encompasses 68 contributing buildings and 5 contributing structures, including the Ritter Park municipal park.
Huntington is home to "Central City," which is on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Huntington Museum of Art, in the hills above Ritter Park, features various collections and exhibitions; it is also home to the C.
The Touma Museum of Medicine in downtown Huntington was established in 1994 to preserve the history of medicine, and to allow visitors to review a elected county-wide medical exhibition.
The only comparable exhibitions can be found in metros/cities such as Chicago, Boston, New York City and Washington, D.C.
The Museum of Radio and Technology is near the west end of the park in a renovated elementary school.
See also: List of mayors of Huntington, West Virginia Huntington has, since 1985, directed under a strong mayor/city council form of government. The mayor is voted for to four-year terms in partisan elections contested at the same time as United States presidential elections.
Mayors in Huntington are term-limited to three terms and have the authority to veto acts of the town/city council.
The town/city also serves as the governmental center of county of Cabell County. The Cabell County Courthouse is on a downtown parcel that covers an entire town/city block.
Huntington's town/city council members are voted for to four-year terms at the same time as the mayor.
District City Council District City Council The Huntington Police Department (HPD) is the major law enforcement agency serving Huntington.
The Huntington Police Department traces its history to 1872 with the appointment of Isaac H.
This protection contains the chief campus region (including the streets on or immediately encircling campus) as well as all other college owned or managed buildings and property, including the Marshall University Medical Center at Cabell Huntington Hospital.
Deputy Sheriffs are sworn law enforcement officials, with full arrest authority anywhere in Cabell County granted by the constitution of West Virginia and the county Sheriff.
In addition to both municipal and county law enforcement agencies, Huntington is also home to a detachment of the West Virginia State Police.
Huntington Fire Department Huntington Fire Department trucks at Station #1.
The town/city of Huntington is protected by 106 experienced firefighters of the Huntington Fire Department (HFD), established in 1897.
Huntington is on the southern bank of the Ohio River and is the river's biggest port area.
The Huntington Fire Department is capable of water/underwater rescue operations and is the host locality to the Regional # 6 West Virginia Regional Response Team which provides Hazardous Materials and Technical Rescue Team responses.
The Chief of the Huntington Fire Department is Jan Rader, the first paid female Fire Chief in the history of West Virginia Jones, and Huntington's first fire business was born.
The Gamewell Fire Alarm System served the City of Huntington faithfully for 105 years.
The engine was brought up the Ohio River to Huntington on a steamboat.
This was the beginning of Huntington's full-time paid fire department.
Under the International Association of Fire Fighters, Huntington's firefighters were given the 289th small-town in the U.S.
The Fire Prevention Bureau was established in the early fifties, because of the increasing number of fires in homes and businesses, along with the city's Fire Prevention Week.
Fire Departments from West Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky participate annually in Huntington's Fire Prevention Parade.
The Huntington Fire Department implemented the School Fire Patrol Program in the town/city in 1950.
The city's 100th birthday was memorialized when the Centennial Fire Station was placed in service on January 13, 1972, replacing the long-outmoded Central Fire Station.
It now homes the traffic division for the City Of Huntington.
The two biggest hospitals in Huntington are St.
Mary's Medical Center and Cabell Huntington Hospital.
Cabell Huntington Hospital is a not-for-profit, county-wide referral center with 303 staffed beds.
Cabell Huntington cares for patients from more than 29 counties throughout West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio.
Cabell Huntington is also home to the Edwards Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Hoops Family Children's Hospital, and the Robert C.
The chief building of the Huntington VA Hospital.
The Huntington Veteran's Administration (VA) Medical Center, on Spring Valley Drive, is an 80-bed medical and surgical care facility that offers major inpatient and outpatient care, along with mental community services and subspeciality outpatient options.
The expansion of Huntington and its economy was originally based on steel processing, shipping, manufacturing, and transit through the 1970s, then the town/city experienced deindustrialization which cost inhabitants tens of thousands of low-skill, high-wage jobs.
The Amazon Customer Service Center in Huntington employs roughly 500 700 citizens .
Huntington has grown its economic base in recent years to include technology, retail, finance, education, and medical care (which constitutes the biggest proportion of the city's employment).
The biggest employers are Marshall University, Cabell Huntington Hospital, St.
Area retail is anchored by the Huntington Mall, the biggest mall in the state, and a healthy downtown retail zone including many boutique shops along the Old Main Corridor, Third Avenue, and Pullman Square.
Other evolution in Kinetic Park contains a Spring Hill Suites by Marriott hotel, a Hampton Inn hotel, a Bob Evans restaurant, Goldy Chrysler, and the Huntington Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics clinic.
The first large manufacturing company in Huntington was the Ensign Car Works, established in Huntington in 1872 by Ely Ensign and William H.
Huntington, who was one of the principals in the Central Pacific Railroad and founder of the City of Huntington. The business began building wooden freight cars in the early 1880s, selling a large portion of its inventory to the Chesapeake and Ohio, Southern Pacific and Central Pacific barns s, all of which were controlled by Huntington. In 1962, the Huntington ACF plant began building a revolutionary new design that quickly became the standard of the rail car industry.
Since its beginning as the end of the C&O Railroad, Huntington has served as a primary break of bulk point between rail traffic and the Ohio River/Mississippi River watershed.
The Huntington Division is still the biggest in the CSX Transportation network.
Huntington is in the company's Southern Region and is the biggest of ten operating divisions on the network.
It serves the states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Ohio.
CSX's Huntington Division chief office is in the historical former C&O traveler station downtown.
Huntington is also home to Heiner's Bakery.
Huntington is still a base for the metalworking and welding trades with the repair of barns rolling stock, barges, and river boat equipment.
Major fabricating firms such as Huntington Special Metals, Steel of West Virginia, Martin Steel, Huntington Plating, Richwood Industries, Evans Welding and Fabricating Co, and Hammers Industries serve the barns s, river transportation, steelmaking, coal, oil, natural gas, electrical, windpower, biofuel, and other meaningful industries.
Although situated in a Southern state, Huntington was originally considered a city.
Huntington is influenced by Appalachian Culture, Southern culture, Midwestern culture, and Mid-Atlantic culture.
It is sometimes alluded to as one of the northernmost metros/cities in the South or one of the southernmost metros/cities in the North.
The Keith-Albee Performing Arts Center is in Huntington.
Huntington is home to various unique affairs and fairs throughout the year.
Chilifest Downtown precinct 4th Avenue and Plaza September 15 17 State championship is held every year, with chili cooks coming from West Virginia and other states to compete for a berth in the nationwide competition.
Rails and Ales Festival Harris Riverfront Park Second Saturday in August West Virginia's biggest beer festival.
Huntington Music & Arts Festival Ritter Park Amphitheater Last Saturday in September Festival centered around small-town and county-wide music and visual artists Old Central City Days Central City precinct in West Huntington 3rd weekend in June This event offers various entertainment and shopping options in addition to the existing stock of storefronts, historic tours, and various food vendors at the new farmers market "depot." An antique show and sale that features more than 40 dealers representing more than 10 states and West Virginia.
West Virginia Day Celebration Downtown precinct 9th Street Plaza June 20 This features live entertainment, jugglers, food, crafts, and more.
Patrick's Day Celebration Downtown Huntington March 14 This features live entertainment by musical and dance groups appropriate for St.
West Virginia Hot Dog Festival Pullman Square precinct 3rd Avenue, downtown Huntington Last Saturday in July The WV Hot Dog Festival jubilates the unique variations of local/regional hot dogs Main article: Recreation in Huntington, West Virginia Huntington is home to eleven enhance parks around the city, and an amusement park just west of the city.
Camden Park, an amusement park, is also contiguous to the city.
Camden Park is West Virginia's only amusement park.
After years of sluggish usage from the general public, the park has seen a renewed interest in recent years from people, town/city government, media and small-town businesses. The enhance territory continues to host a number of concert and music affairs, recently re-introduced a no-charge open-air movie showing, and has been encompassed in citywide assembly of extra surveillance cameras which will furnish no-charge public-access wireless internet connections. The park is situated between the town/city flood wall and the Ohio River, and is noted for its scenic riverview and grassy recreational area.
The park is maintained by the Greater Huntington Park and Recreation District.
It was created in 1913 by Rufus Switzer, a town/city council member of West Virginia. It comprises of various lengthy strolling and cycling trails along Four Pole Creek, which runs the entire length of the park and is crossed by many wooden and contemporary footbridges.There are also restroom facilities, picnic tables, a shelter with grills and electrical outlets, a children's playground, an amphitheater for small concerts and plays, an award-winning rose garden, and a new dog park.
Architect Gus Wofford was hired by the town/city to design the park and its amenities. His works continued till the 1930s and contains bridges that cross streams, tennis courts, arboretum, and picnic facilities. It is in the Ritter Park Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. Ritter Park is one of the busiest places in Huntington, but still maintaining its peaceful and serene surrounding.
The Huntington region has wrestled with community problems for a several years, enigma that were made famous in 2010 by the tv show Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution on ABC.
Before and since, concerned Huntingtonians have been working to advancement the community and character of life in the town/city of Huntington.
The Paul Ambrose Trail for Health (PATH) is a growing, bicycle and pedestrian trail fitness in the City of Huntington.
The Rahall Transportation Institute Foundation, in association with the City of Huntington and various improve members, has designed this trail fitness to incorporate many of Huntington's amenities and workplaces to allow the people of Huntington an alternate means of transportation.
The PATH is vital in Huntington's continued accomplishments towards the redevelopment and expansion of the City, because it will help cut congestion, connect company and communities, and furnish healthy recreational opportunities for residents.
Huntington's Veterans Memorial Arch is a historic memorial arch in Memorial Park.
The funding and coordination was a joint accomplishment between the town/city of Huntington, HUD CDBG funds, and the Greater Huntington Park and Recreation District.
Part of the park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. The eight historic buildings are the camp lodge building (1931), four almost identical gable roofed, stone, rustic vernacular cottages dated to 1942; a gable-roofed, stone, rustic vernacular caretaker's home and two associated outbuildings, dated to 1944.
Camden Park is a 26-acre (110,000 m2) amusement park near Huntington.
This is the second generation of Boylins owning and operating West Virginia's only amusement park.
Beech Fork State Park is in Cabell County and Wayne County, West Virginia, approximately 15 miles (24 km) south of downtown Huntington.
Since its evolution in the mid 1970s, Beech Fork State Park has proven to be a prominent recreation spot for the inhabitants of close-by Barboursville and Huntington, as well as those residing in the encircling region.
Beech Fork State Park is home to Beech Fork Lake, a 720-acre (290 ha) reservoir near Lavalette in Wayne County, West Virginia.
The Beech Fork strain of Adkins family (appropriately known as "Beech Fork Adkinses") was largely driven out to the Huntington urbane area.
Huntington's sports scene is dominated by Marshall University athletics and Huntington Prep basketball.
Huntington Prep is presently ranked as one of the top ten basketball squads in the country and have the top high school player in the class of 2013, Andrew Wiggins. All pupils are considered NCAA Division I prospects and are recruited by some of the top programs in the country.
Huntington Prep is homed inside St.
The team's nickname is the "Express" which is a derivative of the nickname of the former Huntington High School, "Pony Express", and the city's barns heritage.
(The current Huntington High is a consolidation of the initial Huntington High and Huntington East High School, and took East's nickname of "Highlanders".) The school colors are Carolina blue and yellow.
None of the players are from West Virginia, as Coach Rob Fulford does not want to take West Virginia players away from their small-town teams.
Joseph's. Because of this, the school is excluded from playing West Virginia squads by the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission, which is the state's high school sanctioning body.
Some of the former players playing in college presently are Gorgui Dieng (University of Louisville), Justin Coleman (Louisville/Marshall University), Maurice Aniefiok (Ole Miss), Sim Bhuller (New Mexico State), Jeramiah Davis (University of Cincinnati), Aleksandar Kesic (Iona University), Charles Lee (Cleveland State), Ibrahima Djimde (Illinois), Negus Webster-Chan (Missouri), Stefan Jankovic (Missouri), Elijah Macon (West Virginia), Ja - Vontae Hawkins (South Florida), along with more to come every year.
Players on this years team hail from Canada, the U.S., Nigeria, and Russia. The team is coached by West Virginia natives Rob Fulford (Mullens HS), Arkell Bruce (Huntington HS), Baker Neal (Parkersburg South HS), Ryan Arrowood (Hannan HS), and David Meddings (Wayne HS). The Big Sandy Superstore Arena was formerly the home of the River Cities Loco - Motives (2001) and the Huntington Hammer (2011 2012), both members of the Ultimate Indoor Football League, and the Huntington Heroes indoor football team in the American Indoor Football League (2006 2008).
Huntington has a long history of baseball clubs, starting with the Huntington Blue Sox (1911 1916).
Other clubs include: the Huntington Boosters (1931 1933, 1937 & 1939), the Huntington Red Birds (1934 1936), the Huntington Bees (1938), the Huntington Aces (1940 1941), the Huntington Jewels (1942), and the Huntington Cubs (1990 1994).
Huntington was also home to the Huntington Stars (1939 1941), the Huntington Hornets (1956 1957), and the Huntington Blizzard, (1993 2000) ice hockey teams.
Huntington is home to the Jewel City Roller Girls, an all female roller derby team that was established in 2010. See also: List of newspapers in West Virginia, List of airways broadcasts in West Virginia, and List of tv stations in West Virginia Huntington has one of West Virginia's biggest everyday circulating newspapers, The Herald-Dispatch, with an average weekday circulation of just over 25,000. The paper is locally owned by HD Media Co.
Note: These are the only stations that are licensed to the town/city of Huntington.
WKEE 100.5 FM Top 40 Clear Channel Communications; Huntington, "100.5 KEE-FM" WXBW 101.5 FM Classic Country Kindred Communications; Gallipolis, Ohio (repeater WXVW-FM1 licensed to Huntington, WV) "Big Buck Country 101.5" M-F, All weekend Kindred Communications, Huntington, WV.
The inhabitants of Huntington are served by the Cabell and Wayne County School Systems, which include Huntington High School, Cabell Midland High School, Spring Valley High School, Cabell County Career Technology Center, five middle schools, and 19 elementary schools.
Huntington is home to universities and universities including Marshall University and one of its graduate schools, the Joan C.
Byrd Institute for Advanced Manufacturing, Mountwest Community & Technical College, the Huntington Junior College, St.
The roads of Huntington, West Virginia include one primary interstate, Interstate 64; two U.S.
Huntington utilizes a grid-like street pattern featuring a several wide boulevard-style avenues that run east and west.
The town/city has a numbered street naming system, with avenues running east and west (parallel to the Ohio River) and streets running north and south.
The town/city is split into an "East End" and a "West End" by First Street.
Streets west of First Street carry as "West" indicator after the street name (i.e.
Enslow, a experienced contractor, making Huntington one of the first professionally prepared cities in America.
I-64.svg Interstate 64, which skirts the South Hills with four interchanges that serve the city: US 52 (West Huntington Expressway), WV 152/WV 527, WV 10, and US 60.
Exits 6 through 15 service the City of Huntington.
Heading north on the four-lane expressway leads to West Huntington and athwart the West Huntington Bridge into Ohio.
It is slated to use the Tolsia Highway near Kenova and the West Huntington Expressway near West Huntington's Old Central City neighborhood.
Route 60 alongsides the Ohio River through downtown, and merges into a four-lane survived highway after crossing under the West Huntington Expressway (U.S.
60 exits the town/city in the west near the Camden Park.
Route 52 (West Huntington Expressway) is a four lane expressway that enters Huntington from Ohio via the West Huntington Bridge from Chesapeake, Ohio in the north, and heads south crossing U.S.
52 then turns west, overlapping Interstate 64 beginning at exit 6, just south of Huntington town/city limits.
Along with West Virginia Route 75, U.S.
WV-2.svg West Virginia Route 2 makes its southern end just north of Huntington at U.S.
WV 2, which alongsides the entirety of West Virginia's section of the Ohio River, and facilitates much traffic towards Point Pleasant and Parkersburg.
WV-10.svg West Virginia Route 10 follows the Guyandotte River for much of its length and joins Huntington to Princeton.
WV-101.svg West Virginia Route 101 WV 101 is an unsigned highway which runs for less than a mile, connecting Third Avenue (US 60) with Rotary Park.
WV-106.svg West Virginia Route 106 WV 106 enters the Huntington neighborhood of Guyandotte, via the East End Bridge from Proctorville.
WV-152.svg West Virginia Route 152 WV 152's northern end is just shy of the town/city at Interstate 64.
WV-527.svg West Virginia Route 527 WV 527 crosses south into Huntington from Chesapeake, Ohio, via the Robert C.
The town/city has connections over the Ohio River to Proctorville, Ohio via the Gatski Memorial Bridge, and to Chesapeake, Ohio via the Robert C.
Byrd Bridge and the West Huntington Bridge.
Byrd Bridge is a 720-foot (220 m) continuous truss automobile bridge that crosses the Ohio River between Huntington, West Virginia and Chesapeake, Ohio.
The previous bridge, opened in 1926, was Huntington's first bridge athwart the Ohio River and was designed in a gothic style, complete with four two-ton spires that rested on top of each peak.
The old 6th Street Bridge closed in the summer of 1993 to allow for the assembly of the ramps and approaches in West Virginia and Ohio. The new bridge was titled the Robert C.
The $32.6 million bridge was constructed with $1.4 coming from Ohio, $5.6 coming from West Virginia, and $25.3 in federal funds.
The East Huntington Bridge (officially the "Frank Gatski Memorial Bridge," also called the "East End Bridge" or the "31st Street Bridge") is a 900-foot (270 m) cable-stayed bridge crossing the Ohio River at Huntington, West Virginia.
It carries WV 106 on the West Virginia approach and OH 775 on the Ohio approach.
To conform to the Huntington town/city elected plan, the alignment preferred by the town/city was one that connected to Interstate 64 outside of the town/city boundaries.
The designer of the bridge was Arvid Grant and Associated of Olympia, Washington and was the first bridge of its type in West Virginia.
See also: CSX Transportation and Huntington (Amtrak station) Since its beginning as the end of the C&O Railroad, Huntington has served as a primary break of bulk point between rail traffic and the Ohio River/Mississippi River watershed.
The Huntington Division is still the biggest in the CSX Transportation network.
Huntington is in the company's Southern Region and is the biggest of ten operating divisions on the network.
It serves the states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Ohio.
CSX's Huntington Division chief office is in the historical former C&O traveler station in downtown Huntington.
The platform region of the Huntington Amtrak station as seen from the tracks.
The Amtrak station is on the Cardinal line running three days a week (Wednesday, Friday, Sunday) between New York City and Chicago via Washington, D.C., Charlottesville, VA, Cincinnati, and Indianapolis. The station at 1050 8th Avenue includes a waiting room and ticket office, as well as a platform on the south side of the east-west tracks, a small parking lot, and a small building in between.
Tri-State Transit Authority (TTA) provides fixed-route bus service throughout Huntington and the encircling area.
Its buses range, on the West Virginia side from 19th Street West in Huntington to Milton, West Virginia, about 20 miles (32 km) to the east.
On the Ohio side, the buses range from downtown Ironton to the Huntington suburb of Proctorville, Ohio, which is also a range of about 20 miles (32 km).
Interchange buses furnish links between Huntington and Chesapeake, Ohio, and between Ironton and Ashland, Kentucky, where transfers are available to the Ashland Bus System.
However the fitness does not interchange between the TTA and the City of Ashland Bus Service in Ceredo, West Virginia.
The TTA also is involved in a joint venture with the Charleston, West Virginia-based Kanawha Valley Regional Transportation Authority bus fitness called Intelligent Transit which links downtown Huntington to Charleston via bus.
All bus routes begin and end at the old Greyhound Bus Depot in downtown Huntington, which is now known as the TTA Center.
Sullivan: co-founder of Autism Society of America, founder of the Autism Services Center in Huntington Downtown Huntington, WV from athwart the Ohio River Huntington as seen from Marshall University in 2006.
Huntington in Bloom.
History of Huntington West Virginia - FYI.com about Huntington, Published on Wednesday, August 3, 2011, accessdate=April 24, 2016 City of Huntington.
"Huntington arena titled a 'venue to watch'".
"Top 10 Restaurants in Huntington, WV | The Best of Local Food".
"Huntington: Economy Major Industries and Commercial Activity".
"CSX Huntington Division Photography and Videography HDPV".
Huntington District Waterways Association (2011).
"Huntington District Waterways Association".
Huntington District Waterways Association.
City of Huntington.
"National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Huntington Downtown Historic District" (PDF).
State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation.
"National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Downtown Huntington Historic District (Boundary increase and extra information)" (PDF).
State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation.
State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation.
"Huntington Police Department About Us".
"Huntington VA Medical Center, Department of Veteran Affairs".
"Riverfront Area in Need of Repair", Huntington Herald-Dispatch, October 20, 2007.
"Thousands Jam Harris Riverfront Park for Music, Fireworks", Huntington News Network, July 3, 2005.
"X-Fest Xcitement", Huntington News Network, September 2, 2007.
Huntington Herald-Dispatch.
"Downtown cameras also offer broader wireless web access", Huntington Herald-Dispatch, July 20, 2008.
"Touting Huntington: Rittter Park".
City of Huntington.
State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation.
"Huntington Prep's after-school special: Basketball players attend classes at St.
"Huntington Prep coach building nationwide program".
East Huntington Bridge.
See also: Bibliography of the history of Huntington, West Virginia Wikimedia Commons has media related to Huntington, West Virginia.
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Huntington, West Virginia.
City of Huntington's History The Greater Huntington Park and Recreation District Army Corps of Engineers Huntington District
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