Home › H › Huntington (City in Cabell co W Va)

Huntington (City in Cabell co W Va)

a city in Cabell co., W. Va.; on the Ohio and Guyandotte rivers, and on the Chesapeake and Ohio, and the Baltimore and Ohio railroads; 52 miles W. of Charleston. It has steamship communications with all important river ports, and extensive manufactures of railway cars, brick, machinery, ice, etc., and the shops of the Chesapeake HUNTINGTON and Ohio railroad. It is the seat of Marshall College, the State Normal School, and the Douglas Colored High School, and has electric lights and street railways, daily and weekly newspapers, and National banks. It was named after the late Collis P. Huntington.

Pop. (1910) 31,161; (1920) 50,177.