History of Dunbar, West Virginia
Dunbar is a city in Kanawha County, West Virginia|Kanawha County, West Virginia, along the Kanawha River. The population was 8,154 at the 2000 census. Dunbar was incorporation (municipal government)|incorporated on April 19, 1921, by an Act of the West Virginia Legislature, and named for the late Dunbar Baines, a prominent Charleston, West Virginia|Charleston banker and lawyer.West Virginia Blue Book. [http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Educational/publications/pub.cfm Published annually] by the Clerk's Office of the West Virginia Senate.
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