Editing Belington, West Virginia (section)

==History==
Belington was founded in 1766–70.<ref name=cityweb/> Originally it was known as the Barker Settlement, after Elias Barker, who had settled there with his brother William Barker. About 1785, it was called Yeagers, taking its name from a settler, George Yeager, and his sons. In 1855, it took its current name, Belington, from John Bealin, who had opened up a store there, and who would later move to [[Kansas]].

After the June 3, 1861 [[Battle of Philippi Races|Battle of Philippi]], the Confederate forces, having been routed by the Union Army in [[Philippi, West Virginia|Philippi]], retreated south. The Confederates made camp near the Laurel Mountain Road, today, a winding single lane dirt road that crosses the mountain and connects Belington with [[Elkins, West Virginia|Elkins]].

A bridge spanning the Tygart Valley River at Belington was built in 1886.<ref>{{cite book|last=Maxwell|first=Hu|title=The History of Barbour County, West Virginia: From Its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofbarbour00maxw|year=1899|publisher=Acme publishing Company|page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofbarbour00maxw/page/315 315]}}</ref>

In 1891, the [[West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway]] (later the [[Western Maryland Railway]]) was built into Belington. In 1894 the land on the east side of the river was incorporated as Belington, while the west side was incorporated as Alston in 1897. The two towns merged in 1906 to form the present Belington.<ref name=cityweb/>

The [[Bernard E. Wilmoth House]] in Belington is a historic house listed on the National Register of Historic Places.