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Ridgeley is a town in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States, and part of the Cumberland Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 762 at the 2000 census. Ridgeley was initially known as St. Clairsville, named for Arthur St. Clair.[Kenny, Hamill (1945). West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains. Piedmont, West Virginia: The Place Name Press, p. 530. ] It was incorporated as Ridgeley on November 28, 1914, named for the former owners of the land upon which the town was built.[West Virginia Blue Book. Published annually by the Clerk's Office of the West Virginia Senate.]
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West Virginia, USA
