Egeria, West Virginia

Egeria is an unincorporated community in Mercer and Raleigh counties, West Virginia, United States.

Egeria is 8.5 miles (13.7 km) north-northeast of Matoaka.

The 1881 guide to the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway lists a blacksmith, two cabinetmakers or undertakers, a general store, a machinist, corn or flour mill, sawmill, and nine "principal farmers".

It had 21 total students at its peak, and enrollment numbers were usually in the teens, making it the smallest school in the county; in 1954 it had only two graduates.

[4][5] At the time, the community was cut off from surrounding towns by poor-quality roads, which slowed local progress and led younger residents to move away.

Small church, no regular services, open on a summer day.
Primitive Baptist Church, established 1907
Mercer County map
Raleigh County map