Editing Morgantown, West Virginia (section)

===Neighborhoods===
[[File:Downtownmorgantown.jpg|thumb|Aerial view of downtown Morgantown.]]
Morgantown is made up of several neighborhoods, some of which had been independent towns that were annexed by the city as it continued to grow. Neighborhoods include First Ward, Woodburn, South Park, Jerome Park, South Hills, Second Ward, Greenmont, Suncrest, Evansdale, Wiles Hill, [[Sunnyside, Morgantown, West Virginia|Sunnyside]], Sabraton, the Mileground, and North Hills. While some of these, such as the Mileground, Easton, and Sabraton, are in part or entirely outside the city limits, they are still considered part of Morgantown. The City of Morgantown contained just over 30,000 permanent residents in 2020.<ref name="U.S. Decennial Census" /> The city is host to about 30,000 students at West Virginia University.<ref name="WVU Facts">{{cite web|title=WVU Facts|url=https://www.wvu.edu/about-wvu/wvu-facts|publisher=West Virginia University|access-date=May 23, 2019}}</ref>

[[Sunnyside, Morgantown, West Virginia|Sunnyside]], just north of downtown Morgantown, is an older neighborhood adjacent to West Virginia University's downtown campus. The neighborhood is bounded by University Avenue to the east and Campus Drive to the south. Close to the downtown campus of West Virginia University and for decades known as a neighborhood of student housing, is also the scene of many off-campus parties and post-game celebrations including, until 1995, the unsanctioned annual back-to-school [[block party]] that would annually draw upward of 10,000 revelers to celebrate the start of fall classes.<ref name=quieteraffair /><ref>{{cite news|last=Ahrens|first=Frank|title=WVU, No. 1 in Fun? You Can Count Me Out|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/13584703.html?dids=13584703:13584703&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Aug+21%2C+1997&author=Frank+Ahrens&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=WVU%2C+No.+1+in+Fun%3F+You+Can+Count+Me+Out.&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130616051348/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/13584703.html?dids=13584703:13584703&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Aug+21,+1997&author=Frank+Ahrens&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=WVU,+No.+1+in+Fun%3F+You+Can+Count+Me+Out.&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 16, 2013|access-date=April 15, 2013|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=August 21, 1997}}</ref> The university and city put an end to the tradition that year after two students were shot the previous year.<ref name=quieteraffair>{{cite news|title=WVU's Back-To-School Party A Quieter Affair This Year|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PG&p_theme=pg&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EADF72F8D902BCB&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|access-date=April 15, 2013|newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|date=August 22, 1995}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=2 WVU Students Shot at Unsactioned Party|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PG&p_theme=pg&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EADF0B6935F118A&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|access-date=April 15, 2013|newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|date=August 24, 1994}}</ref> The City of Morgantown and West Virginia University jointly established the [[Sunnyside, Morgantown, West Virginia|Sunnyside]] Up Project: Campus Neighborhoods Revitalization Corporation, dedicated to the redevelopment of this area. The first step was to create a comprehensive revitalization plan, which was published in fall 2004.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.morgantown.com/sunnyside/Sunnyside.pdf |title=Sunnyside Up Project: Campus Neighborhoods Revitalization Corporation |publisher=Morgantown.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305115845/http://www.morgantown.com/sunnyside/Sunnyside.pdf |archive-date=March 5, 2012 }}</ref> The university's Summit Hall Dormitory and the Honors Hall Dormitory are in the southern part of the neighborhood.

Woodburn used to be farmland on the hills to the east of downtown Morgantown. The area saw a rapid growth in population at the beginning of the 20th century as home to tinsmiths from [[Wales]] who came to work in the tinplate mill that later became the [[Sterling Faucet Company]] plant in Sabraton. A trolley line ran the length of Richwood Avenue and originally connected downtown with Sabraton. The Welsh community was active in the [[Methodist]] Church at the intersection of High Street and Willey Street, and held picnics in Whitemoore Park, the main green space in Woodburn.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.boparc.org/pocket-parks.html|title=Pocket Parks|website=MORGANTOWN BOARD OF PARKS AND RECREATION|accessdate=April 13, 2021}}</ref>  Many of these immigrants retained the [[Welsh language]], and as late as the 1930s it was common to hear Welsh spoken on the streets of Woodburn and the community was known for carrying on a traditional [[eisteddfod]] every year.{{Citation needed|date=November 2021}}

Located in the southeastern part of Morgantown, Sabraton is a former [[coal town]] and was previously known as Sturgiss City and Sabraton Station. The community was named after Sabra Vance Sturgiss, the wife of a local judge.<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=572;size=125|year=1945|publisher=The Place Name Press|location=Piedmont, WV|page=546}}</ref> Part of Sabraton was home to a tin plate mill, which later become a manufacturing plant for Sterling Faucet. In its early days, Sabraton was connected to downtown Morgantown by a trolley line that ran the length of Richwood Avenue. Its amenities include Marilla Park.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.boparc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=78&Itemid=5 | title= Marilla Park | publisher = Morgantown Board of Park and Recreation Commissioners | access-date = December 14, 2012}}{{dead link|date=June 2013}}</ref>