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from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusEccles is a census-designated place (CDP) in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States. Eccles is located on West Virginia Route 3, 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Beckley. Eccles has a post office with ZIP code 25836. As of the 2020 census, its population was 334 (down from 362 at the 2010 census). The community was originally named after the book of Ecclesiastes from the bible, where the mining company of its namesake was formed around the turn of the century. The name was later shortened by the local post office to Eccles to allow for easier postage and mail flow due to a common inability to correctly spell the name. Eccles is the site of the April 28, 1914 Eccles coal mining disaster, which…
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 362 to 334 (-8%).
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Eccles yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Eccles’s history is told.
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2000
Nothing in Eccles is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Eccles has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is New Salem Baptist Church in Lester, 2.6 miles away.
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When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.