BUCKHANNON, a city near the centre of West Virginia, U.S.A., on the Buckhannon river, at an elevation of 1,400ft.; the county seat of Upshur county. It is served by the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. The population in 1930 was 4,374. It has natural gas and several manufacturing plants, and is the seat of West Virginia Wesleyan College, established here in 1890. Buckhannon occupies the site of the first permanent settlement west of the Alleghenies. Neither the city nor the county has ever licensed a saloon.