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'''Baileysville''' <ref>{{gnis|1553775}}</ref> is an [[Unincorporated area|unincorporated community]] in [[Wyoming County, West Virginia|Wyoming County]], [[West Virginia]], United States. Most of the town was purchased by the [[United States Army]] [[United States Army Corps of Engineers|Corps of Engineers]] in the 1960s and 1970s for construction of the [[R. D. Bailey Lake]]. The [[Post Office]] was closed in 1973.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postmasterfinder/welcome.htm|title = Postmaster Finder - Who We Are - USPS}}</ref> The geographic name lived on in the local [[high school]], [[Baileysville High School]], which served a regional area and was actually located outside of the town proper. The school was closed in 2002 after consolidating with nearby [[Oceana High School (West Virginia)|Oceana High]] to form [[Westside High School (West Virginia)|Westside High School]].<br />
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The community has the name of James Bailey Sr., a local pioneer.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kenny|first=Hamill|title=West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains|url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015009099824;view=1up;seq=119|year=1945|publisher=The Place Name Press|location=Piedmont, WV|page=91}}</ref><br />
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