Beverly is a town in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States.

The first white settlers in the area that would become Beverly (and in fact in the whole of the Tygart Valley) arrived in 1753 when David Tygart (for whom the valley and river are named) and Robert Files (or Foyle) established cabins at separate choice spots.

The settlement was at first named Edmundton to further honor the namesake of the new county—Virginia Governor Edmund Randolph.

In December 1790, however, the Virginia General Assembly officially established the town as “Beverley”.

)[7] The Assembly directed the citizens to erect “a dwelling house sixteen feet square with a brick or stone chimney.” The first houses, along with a courthouse, jail, and school, were all of the characteristic single-pen log structure.

After the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike arrived (1841), the town developed rapidly as a regional center for transportation and trading.

Both sides occupied Beverly at various times during the American Civil War (1861–65) and various buildings were pressed into service as hospitals or quarters.

[7] In January 1865 Confederate General Thomas L. Rosser took 300 men, crossed the Allegheny Mountains to Beverly in deep snow and bitter cold and surprised and captured two Union infantry regiments in their works there.

Beverly lost its preeminence as county seat in 1899 to the rapidly developing railroad and timbering center of Elkins.

[10] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.45 square miles (1.17 km2), all land.

The racial makeup of the town was 98.77% White, 0.31% Native American, 0.46% Asian, and 0.46% from two or more races.