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Buckhannon is the only incorporated city in Upshur County, West Virginia and is located along the Buckhannon River. The population was 5,725 at the 2000 census. As of 2004, it has reached a population above 7,500. It is the county seat of Upshur County. Buckhannon is home to West Virginia Wesleyan College and the West Virginia Strawberry Festival, held annually on the third week of May. The city is located 115 miles northeast from the capital city of Charleston and 140 miles south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Upshur County and its County Seat have been a Republican majority since the days of the American Civil War. Citizens during this era were staunch supporters of the Republic then led by President Abraham Lincoln. Their local militias and soldiers served on the side of the Union.
One of Stonewall Jackson's sisters, Laura Ann Jackson Arnold, was later a resident of Buckhannon. "Her true sympathy always was with the North, much to the dismay of her brother."
The present-day City of Buckhannon was the first permanent settlement between Fort Pitt (Pennsylvania) and the Gulf of Mexico.
The city motto is "The Promise of Tomorrow with the Dignity of Yesterday."
Buckhannon is noted for having a great many of West Virginia's private-citizen millionaires living in its City and dispersed throughout Upshur County.
Buckhannon has a net worth of more than 500 million dollars.

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