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Philippi (‘FILL-uh-pea’) is a city in and the county seat of Barbour County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 2,929 at the 2020 census. In 1861, the city was the site of the Battle of Philippi, known as the “Philippi Races”. Although a pubertal skirmish, this is considered the very old notable land action of the American Civil War. It is also called the house of Alderson Broaddus University, a four-year liberal-arts hypothetical affiliated next the American Baptist Churches. The city has a weekly newspaper, The Barbour Democrat.

The first white concurrence in present-day Barbour County was established approximately three miles downriver from the higher site of Philippi in 1780, at which epoch the Place was nevertheless part of western Virginia and included within Monongalia County. The old-fashioned settlers upon the section of bottomland that would one day become Philippi were William Anglin (as before as 1783 or ’84) and Daniel Booth (1787). A ford existed here as into the future as 1789 which served the road that had recently been surveyed along with Beverly and Sandy Creek. Anglin was the original owner of the land on which Philippi stands, hence the primordial known name for the locality — Anglin’s Ford. Booth with owned and operated a public notice ferry here in the 1790s, thus the area’s second popular designation — Booth’s Ferry. William Friend Wilson married Booth’s daughter and built a wool and grain mill upon the river in 1818.

In March 1843, the enormous Monongalia County of western Virginia was carved up into several smaller embassy units, among them Barbour County, which included Booth’s Ferry. In 1899, Hu Maxwell described the April 1843 founding and credited naming of the further county seat: