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Dunbar, WV - History


We would like to provide the residents of  Dunbar  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Dunbar Home page. The Dunbar Home page provides as much information as possible on Dunbar. Knowing Dunbar’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Dunbar’s Home page, you will also find Dunbar’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Dunbar has a population of 7166. 48.6% of Dunbar’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.4 are female. 37.5% of Dunbar is married and 55.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $97,648, and the average rent is $786. Household median income in Dunbar is $39,688, and the individual median income is $26,301. Dunbar’s Ethnic is the following: White(73%), Black(14.7%), Multiple(7.9%), Hispanic(3.7%), Pacific(3.1%), Asian(1.2%).


Dunbar was incorporated on April 19, 1921, by an Act of the West Virginia Legislature. Dunbar is on land that was originally occupied by Native Americans with 11 mounds identified in the residential areas. The land was granted to George Washington for his military service and was named for Mary Dunbar after she inherited the land from Washington, although other sources say it was named for Dunbar Baines, a prominent area banker.Dunbar was a farming community until industries began to evolve in the city with the opening of glass and bottling plants in 1912.


The Gravely Plow was invented in Dunbar in 1916.Located at Dunbar is the Dutch Hollow Wine Cellars, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. The park is listed on the Register due to the walk-in wine cellars located within the Park. In the past the area was known for its vineyards and the cellars were used to store wine made from the grapes grown in the vineyards.


The cellars were thought to be built around 1860 due to the popularity of wine-making. The wine was then hauled to Charleston and Cincinnati. After the Civil War, wine making was no longer profitable and the vineyards were abandoned. The popularity of wine in neighboring Virginia and Ohio also had an impact on grape growing in West Virginia.


The wine cellars are preserved and protected for future generations due to the foresight of Dunbar to develop the area into a City park.


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