CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Seventeen new historic sites have been added to the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia in 2023, spanning every corner of the state and including schools, churches, farms, historic districts, and some 379 individual resources.
According to data from the West Virginia State Historic Preservation Office, they join a growing inventory of more than 1,100 sites nominated to the register in the Mountain State since the program was initiated in 1966.
Register listing is primarily an honorary designation, though listed properties may be eligible for grants and tax credits for historic rehabilitation and preservation. Several sites nominated this year were done so to access these financial incentives.
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