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Dunlow is an unincorporated community in southern Wayne County, West Virginia, on Twelvepole Creek. It was laid out as a railroad town along the Ohio Extension of the Norfolk and Western Railway in 1892. Dunlow was incorporated in 1892. However, the railroad up the West Fork of Twelvepole Creek through Dunlow was shut down in the early 1930s, and what is left of the town is currently unincorporated.
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Municipalities and communities of
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Ardel | Armilda | Bethesda | Booton | Bowen | Brabant | Buffalo Creek | Centerville | Coleman | Cove Gap | Crockett | Crum | Cyrus | Dickson | Doane | Dunlow | East Lynn | Echo | Effie | Elmwood | Ferguson | Fleming | Genoa | Gilkerson | Girard | Glenhayes | Grandview Gardens | Hidden Valley | Hubbardstown | Lavalette | Mineral Springs | Missouri Branch | Neal | Nestlow | Oakview Heights | Prichard | Quaker | Radnor | Saltpetre | Shoals | Sidney | Stepptown | Stiltner | Stonecoal | Sweet Run | Tripp | Webb | Westmoreland | Wilsondale | Winslow
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‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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Dunlow is also noted for its wildlife sightings. There have been several accounts of sightings of Black Panthers and other jungle animals in Dunlow. A circus train that derailed in the mid 1940's, from which several jungle creatures escaped and were never recovered, is rumored to be the source of these animals. For more about Dunlow, West Virginia, one can read "Last Train to Dunlow, History from the Hollows of Wayne County, West Virginia and the Coming of the N&W Railroad 1870-1940," by Jack Dickinson and Martha Kay Stamper.
