Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Ridgeley, WV

Ridgeley is an incorporated town in Mineral County, West Virginia, standing on the North Branch of the Potomac River directly opposite Cumberland, Maryland.

Ridgeley is part of the Cumberland Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The town was incorporated on November 28, 1914, and renamed for Charles Ridgeley, a prominent early resident and businessman; before incorporation it was known as St. Clairsville, or Sinclairsville, after Sir John St Clair.

Ridgeley's site began as Fort Ohio, built in 1750 as the Ohio Company's "New Store" trading post, then the westernmost outpost of colonial settlement.

In May 1754 a young George Washington took his first military command at the Fort Ohio settlement after Colonel Joshua Fry died on the march, and the Jumonville skirmish that followed is considered the first shot of the French and Indian War.

Daniel Boone and Daniel Morgan both worked in the Ridgeley area during preparations for General Edward Braddock's ill-fated 1755 expedition against Fort Duquesne.

The West Virginia Central and Pittsburg Railway built yards and tracks in Ridgeley in 1887, and the town developed as a blue-collar railroad community after the line became part of the Western Maryland Railway in 1904.

Serious flooding from the Potomac River challenged Ridgeley until the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed a major flood control project in the 1950s.

The 2020 census counted 591 residents in Ridgeley, down from the town's peak of 1,972 residents in 1930.

The 2010 census recorded 301 households and 377 housing units in Ridgeley.