Ridgeley, WV

Ridgeley is a town in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States, and part of the Cumberland Metropolitan Statistical Area. The 2020 census counted 590 residents. Ridgeley was initially known as St. Clairsville, named for Sir John St Clair, Lt Colonel and Quartermaster General for the British General Edward Braddock. St Clair accompanied Braddock on his ill-fated march on Fort Duquesne and his disastrous defeat on July 9, 1755. Ridgeley is within the Mineral County Schools district. Frankfort High School is located near Short Gap and contains the grades 9–12. The short version is that Ridgeley carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now.

That is the local read on Ridgeley: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Ridgeley was incorporated as Ridgeley on November 28, 1914, named for the former owners of the land upon which the town was built. The land on which the town is built was originally conveyed from Thomas Lord Fairfax to George Mason in 1749. Ridgeley was separated by many miles of tortuous mountain roads from the settlements in the east".