Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Sutton, WV

Sutton is a town in Braxton County, West Virginia, and the county seat of Braxton County.

The area was settled in 1792 by Adam O'Brien of Bath County, Virginia, and John D. Sutton settled in 1809 at the confluence of Granny's Creek and the Elk River.

The town was established in 1826 under the name Suttonsville (also rendered Suttonville and Newville) and was laid out in 1835.

When Braxton County was formed in 1836, its first court was held in John D. Sutton's home, and the town was incorporated in 1883.

Sutton grew as a transportation hub on the navigable Elk River and the Weston and Gauley Bridge Turnpike, where a suspension bridge across the Elk was built in 1853.

During the Civil War, Sutton was occupied by 5,000 Union troops on September 5, 1861, General Rosecrans later bivouacked 10,000 troops there including future President William McKinley, and Confederates burned most of the downtown on December 29, 1861 before General Crook retook it two days later.

A late-1800s timber boom made Sutton a commercial center, and most buildings in the Sutton Downtown Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, date from about 1890 to 1920.

Sutton Dam, completed in 1961 on the Elk River upstream under the Flood Control Act of 1938, created Sutton Lake, which stretches about 14 miles.

The geographic center of West Virginia is located just four miles east of Sutton.

The 2020 census counted 863 residents in Sutton; at the 2010 census the town had 994 residents in 452 households.