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Ruble Church is a historic
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at the junction of CR 34/1 and 34/2 in Burning Springs,
Wirt County, West Virginia Wirt County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,194, making it the least populous county in West Virginia. Its county seat is Elizabeth. The county was created in 1848 by the Virginia Gene ...
. It was built in 1854, and is a one-story, rectangular, gable-roofed
log structure In algebraic geometry, a log structure provides an abstract context to study semistable schemes, and in particular the notion of logarithmic differential form and the related Hodge-theoretic concepts. This idea has applications in the theory o ...
measuring by . Also on the property is the church cemetery, in which the oldest graves are dated to 1857–1858. It was listed on the
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in 1982. The church was demolished in September 2020. As of November 2020, it is being reconstructed on the same spot using some of the original logs.


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