Barnes Mill is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Hampshire County in the
U.S. state
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its so ...
of
West Virginia
West Virginia is a mountainous U.S. state, state in the Southern United States, Southern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.The United States Census Bureau, Census Bureau and the Association of American ...
. It is located along the
Little Cacapon River on Little Cacapon River Road (West Virginia Secondary Route 50/9) north of
Frenchburg. The original "Barnes Mill", from which the community takes its name, was built here on the Little Cacapon in 1813. The community was served by a
post office
A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letter (message), letters and parcel (package), parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post o ...
in the 19th century.
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Geographic Names Information System
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. Accessed 2008-01-19. Barnes Mill was formerly known as Barnes Mills.
Notable person
*
Alexander W. Monroe,
Speaker of the West Virginia House of Delegates
References
Unincorporated communities in Hampshire County, West Virginia
Unincorporated communities in West Virginia
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