Colliers, WV

Colliers is an unincorporated community in Brooke County, West Virginia, United States. Colliers is the second oldest town in Brooke County, Wellsburg being the oldest. Throughout its existence, Colliers' social life has revolved primarily around the local schools and churches. In the mid-1800s, Elisha Stansbury, a man who owned 335 acres of land in Colliers and the surrounding area, realized that the town needed a school to educate the children, including his own eight. He donated a portion of his land on the west end of Colliers for a school. The short version is that Colliers carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Colliers: its past remains attached to the places people use now. In 1771, Jacob Collier founded the settlement of Colliers. There was a small fort located in this settlement.