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04-03-2008, 06:52 PM
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middletown district
The City-Data site describes Middletown District as having a population of 17k+ and being in Taylor Co. but it appears as a dot closer to barackville. Not that close to Middletown Mall, which would be logical. Is Fairmont ( population 19K+) a totally separate place? Are there 36k+ people in the area. Can anybody explain this? I'm confused.
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04-03-2008, 08:19 PM
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Middletown District encompasses the new Marion County town of Whitehall. Several years ago, the City of Fairmont was annex happy. Several outlying areas stopped this encroachment by incorporating...Whitehall flows over into Taylor County with the high end subdivision built by Frank Cervo...This overflow area has school choices in Marion County as the new East High School is only about 10 minutes away...lawsuits have set the boundaries for Fairmont and in one of them the 'Welcome to Fairmont' sign was removed as it was trespassing into the Middletown (Whitehall) district. No love lost between the two...and the building and the money contines to flow all the way to Grafton...
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04-03-2008, 09:04 PM
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Thanks DK. I didn't realize so many people lived in the area. I suppose the migration outward is killing real estate in town. I'm taking my time and trying to get to know the area.
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04-04-2008, 04:08 AM
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With the old towns dying...that is exactly what is happening...the migration is to outside the city limits..Taylor County Commission makes a ton of money from the property taxes alone...giving them resources to work with...Not burdened with the huge City expenses and salarys, pension and benefit packages and infrastructure to nowhere. ( The costs that really stifle growth)
Taylor has no B & 0...only simple code enforcement...a permit to build a new home is reasonable...that is why South Point is in Taylor County...Those houses reach to just above 1 Million...South Point changed the entire real estate market in North Central Wv. One man did that in the early 1990's...Frank Cervo. He had a dream that came true. And we have all reaped the rewards of his efforts..excellence in building..and a very robust economy... The secret is to buy an old dump somewhere with a great land parcel...bulldoze out the debris and build the dream..
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