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== History == From 1876 to 1890, the town was called Coal Valley Post Office. The name then changed to Montgomery's Landing, then to Coal Valley. In 1890 it was again renamed, as Cannelton. It was [[incorporation (municipal government)|incorporated]] on April 1, 1891, and the name Montgomery was settled upon; it was named for James C. Montgomery,<ref>{{cite book |last=Kenny |first=Hamill |title=West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015009099824;view=1up;seq=455;size=125 |year=1945 |publisher=The Place Name Press |location=Piedmont, WV |page=427}}</ref> one of the city's first settlers. The land was given to James Montgomery as a wedding present from his father-in-law, Levi Morris, who owned all the land. The town's late-19th century growth was due to the construction of the Kanawha & Michigan Railroad across the river and the connection of the Virginian Railway at nearby Deepwater. In the early 1910s, Montgomery was the shipping center for 26 different coal operations and was the largest town in Fayette County at the time.<ref>{{cite web |title=Montgomery, West Virginia|url=http://www.wvexp.com/index.php/Montgomery,_West_Virginia |publisher=WVExp.com |access-date=February 4, 2013 |pages=1 |date=June 17, 2012}}</ref> From 1895 until its 2017 move to [[Beckley, West Virginia|Beckley]], Montgomery was the home of [[West Virginia University Institute of Technology]], popularly called ''WVU Tech''. The city is currently home to [[BridgeValley Community and Technical College|BridgeValley Community and Technical College β Montgomery Campus]].
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