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Picture Courtesy of Joseph K. Landis

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Picture Courtesy of Joseph K. Landis

County seat, incorporated in 1906 and named for William Madison Peyton, a leader in movement for the formation of Boone County, 1847. Peyton, pioneer in the development of the Coal River Valley, locked and dammed Coal River in the 1840's and made it navigable for steamboats to transport coal from area to markets, and for a period made the Coal Valley one of the great industrial regions of the State.
WV 85, courthouse square, Madison Boone County West Virginia
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