Michael Coleman, a well known early Indian fighter, was killed and buried in the area, according to a historical marker placed by the state of WV.

The wooden Grist Mill located here since the 1840s burned to the ground in the summer of 1965.

Cottageville was a commercial center with a bank, newspaper, tannery, blacksmith, several stores, a railroad station on the B & O and many other businesses in the early part of the twentieth century.

Less than a mile from the old town, the county operated what folks called the "poor farm," an early version of a welfare commune.

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