Page, WV

Page is a census-designated place and coal town in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. The 2020 census counted 152 residents. Page was named for William Nelson Page, a civil engineer and industrialist who lived in nearby Ansted, where he managed Gauley Mountain Coal Company and many iron, coal, and railroad enterprises. Page owned a coal and coking company at Page and was the first president of The Virginian Railway Company. The short version is that Page carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Page: its past remains attached to the places people use now.