The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusWindsor Heights is a village in Brooke County, West Virginia, United States. It is part of the Weirton-Steubenville metropolitan area. The population was 361 at the 2020 census. Grace Davis was the mayor as of June 2017. Windsor Heights was incorporated in 1989.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 423 to 361 (-15%). Half of its homes were built before 1938.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Windsor Heights 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.
Start Windsor Heights’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Windsor Heights’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Windsor Heights, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Windsor Heights is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Windsor Heights has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Stringer Stone House in Rayland, 1.3 miles away.
Windsor Heights and the nearest listed places
Closest to Windsor Heights
Stringer Stone HouseRayland · Building1.3mi
Shotwell Hall, West Liberty State CollegeWest Liberty · Building3.8mi
Shaw Hall, West Liberty State CollegeWest Liberty · Building3.8mi
West Liberty Presbyterian ChurchWest Liberty · High Victorian Gothic4.1mi
Mount Saint JosephWheeling · Late 19th and Early 20th Century Revivals5.2miHow a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.