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14 unusual facts about Fayette County


Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg

The Verein was responsible for the large emigration of Germans to Texas in the 19th Century, and on January 9, 1843, established the 4,428 acre Nassau Plantation in Fayette County, Texas and named it after the Grand Duke.

Alta, West Virginia

Alta, Fayette County, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia

Appalachian String Band Music Festival

The Festival takes place each summer at Camp Washington-Carver, in Clifftop, Fayette County, West Virginia, United States and is sponsored by the West Virginia Division of Culture and History.

Deberah Kula

Prior to her legislative career, Kula served as Magisterial District Judge in North Union Township, Pennsylvania.

Fayette County, Tennessee

Fayette County is part of the Memphis, TN–MSAR Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Fayette County, Texas

Fayette County is the location of the real Chicken Ranch, which was the basis of the musical and feature film The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.

George Cafego

Born in rural Whipple, West Virginia, Cafego attended Oak Hill High School in nearby Oak Hill, West Virginia.

John O. Meusebach

In 1843, the Vereins purchased a 4,428 acre plantation in Fayette County and named it after the Archduke of Nassau.

Oso, Washington

The name Oso was reportedly given by Connor Blacker for a town in Fayette County, Texas, although no such town is known to have existed.

Price Hill, West Virginia

Price Hill, Fayette County, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Fayette and Raleigh counties

Smithers Creek

Smithers Creek rises in the unincorporated community of Mount Olive and flows generally southwestward through the unincorporated communities of Marting and Cannelton, to the city of Smithers, where it flows into the Kanawha River.

Thomas R. Ranson

Ranson knew of the short and tragic life of Jackson's mother, who had been buried in an unmarked grave in Fayette County along the James River and Kanawha Turnpike when Thomas was orphaned at the age of only 7 in 1831.

Whitewater Memorial State Park

Four counties gave up part of their land so that the state of Indiana could create the memorial park: Fayette, Franklin, Union and Wayne.

William Burnett House

William Burnett was a prominent Union Township resident in the middle of the 19th century: an 1850 publication recorded him as serving as a constable for the township and as a marshal for the village of Washington Court House.


Barrett Rich

Barrett Rich is a Republican member of the Tennessee House of Representatives for the 94th District, encompassing Fayette, Hardeman and Tipton.

Dolores Gresham

Her Senate District 26 encompasses the counties of Chester, Crockett, Fayette, Hardeman, Hardin, Haywood, McNairy and Wayne in the western part of the state.

Hubbertville School

Hubbertville School is located in the community of Hubbertville, which itself is situated in Northern Fayette County, Alabama, within the corporate limits of Glen Allen, Alabama.

Kentucky State Fair

Fayette County farmer Colonel Lewis Sanders (no known relation to Colonel Harlan Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame) was the organizer.

Mon–Fayette Expressway Bridge

The Mon–Fayette Expressway Bridge, officially the Ronald C. "Smokey" Blakewell Bridge is a high-level girder bridge that carries vehicular traffic across the Monongahela River between Luzerne Township in Fayette County, Pennsylvania and Centerville in Washington County, Pennsylvania.

Pageton, West Virginia

William N. Page was a principal of the Page Coal and Coke Company, a coal and coking company with another operation in Page in Fayette County.

Rutersville College

Rutersville College (occasionally misspelled Ruterville College), was a coeducational college located in the unincorporated community of Rutersville in Fayette County, Texas, United States.

Southern State Community College

The college is divided into four campuses located in Sardinia (South), Washington Court House (Fayette), Hillsboro (Central), and Wilmington (North campus), Ohio.

Waterford, Lexington

Its boundaries are Man o' War Boulevard to the north, Hickman Creek to the east, rural Fayette County to the west, and a combination of Poplar Springs Lane and Vermillion Peak Way to the south.