Shaw is a former town in Mineral County, in the U.S. state of

West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers classify West Virginia as part of the Southern United States while the Bur ...

History

A post office called Shaw was established in 1881, and remained in operation until 1973. The community was named after Major Alexander Shaw, a railroad official. The town site was inundated and destroyed by the creation of

Jennings Randolph Lake Jennings Randolph Lake is a reservoir of located on the North Branch Potomac River in Garrett County, Maryland and Mineral County, West Virginia. It is approximately eight miles upstream of Bloomington, Maryland, and approximately five miles n ...

References

https://www.mineralwv.org/history-shaw/ Geography of Mineral County, West Virginia {{MineralCountyWV-geo-stub