1914
Albright is incorporated and takes its present name
Local community history dates Albright's incorporation to 1914 and says the town was named for prominent landowner David Albright. The municipal date marks the modern town, while settlement in the surrounding Cheat River area reaches back to the Revolutionary era and nearby Butler's Fort.
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