Beryl was 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 ...
and
coal town located in
Mineral County,
West Virginia
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, United States. Homes and properties were slowly purchased over the years by
Westvaco
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paper company. By the late 1900s, all the residents were gone, and the last standing home became an office for the Westvaco woodyard. Currently, only
New Page Paper (formerly Westvaco) and
Kingsford Charcoal occupy the location of the town.
West Virginia Route 46 allows for the only mode of transportation to Beryl.
Beryl Abernathy, the onetime postmaster, gave the community her name.
References
Unincorporated communities in Mineral County, West Virginia
Unincorporated communities in West Virginia
Coal towns in West Virginia
Populated places on the North Branch Potomac River
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