en Teays, West Virginia

Teays
Teays
Unincorporated community
	Teays Location within the state of West Virginia Teays Teays (the United States)
	Coordinates: 38°26′30″N 81°57′10″W / 38.44167°N 81.95278°W
Country	United States
State	West Virginia
County	Putnam
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP codes	25569

Teays, written Seays until circa 1884, is an unincorporated community in Putnam County, West Virginia, United States. The town is centered on the former general store / post office on Teays Lane, which sits across from the site of the Teays railroad depot, which was demolished in the mid-1900s.

Teays is a namesake and part of the census-designated place of Teays Valley, which was in turn named for Thomas Teays, a hunter and trapper who once spent a considerable amount of time in the vicinity.^[1]

Geologist William G. Tight (1865–1910) named the preglacial Teays River after Teays, which lies in the "riverless" Teays Valley that once was the bottom of the river.^[2]

Gallery

The former Teays, WV general store / post office.

References

^ Kenny, Hamill (1945). West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains. Piedmont, WV: The Place Name Press. p. 621.
^ Sullivan, Walter (November 29, 1983). "A Great Lost River Gets Its Due". The New York Times. Retrieved May 19, 2009. [William G. Tight] called it the Teays (pronounced taze) River, for a village in West Virginia.

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[1] Kenny, Hamill (1945). West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains. Piedmont, WV: The Place Name Press. p. 621.

[NYT_Sullivan-2] Sullivan, Walter (November 29, 1983). "A Great Lost River Gets Its Due". The New York Times. Retrieved May 19, 2009. [William G. Tight] called it the Teays (pronounced taze) River, for a village in West Virginia.

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