Cabin Creek, West Virginia
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Cabin Creek 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
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,
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, United States. Cabin Creek is located on the south bank of the
Kanawha River The Kanawha River ( ) is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately 97 mi (156 km) long, in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The largest inland waterway in West Virginia, its watershed has been a significant industrial region of th ...
at the mouth of Cabin Creek, southeast of
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. A notable resident was Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. and his family, who had moved there from Virginia. An exit on the
West Virginia Turnpike Interstate 77 (I-77) in the US state of West Virginia is a major north–south Interstate Highway. It extends for between Bluefield, West Virginia, Bluefield at the Virginia state line and Williamstown, West Virginia, Williamstown at the ...
is located near here.


Notable people

* Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. (1865–1953), his parents moved here with Adam and his siblings before 1880, and lived here several years. He married his wife near here in 1889 before going to Washington, DC to
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. He later became the pastor of
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in
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, attracting the largest Protestant congregation in the nation. *
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(1917–2005), football player at
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and coach *
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(1938–2024),
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player for the
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and NBA general manager. West's nicknames included 'Zeke from Cabin Creek' and 'the Cabin Creek Comet' * Lou Myers (1935 – 2013) American actor best known for the role of Mr. Vernon Gaines on the series
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.


References

Unincorporated communities in Kanawha County, West Virginia Unincorporated communities in West Virginia Populated places on the Kanawha River {{KanawhaCountyWV-geo-stub