Delbarton, West Virginia
Delbarton is a town in Mingo County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 579 at the 2010 census. Delbarton was incorporated September 6, 1946, by the Mingo County Circuit Court. The name Delbarton comes from the New Jersey country estate of Luther Kountze a Wall Street financier and part owner of the United Thacker Land Company a large coal mining company. Currently a Catholic high school with the same moniker, the Delbarton School, is... Show more located on this site. The estate and town and school all derive their name from an amalgamation of syllables in the names of Kountze's three children.Prior to being incorporated as a town Delbarton was a coal camp built and owned by the Thacker company. Thacker needed such camps soon after in 1909 acting for the company Luther Kountze arranged the purchase of thousands of acres in the area from Jane Hatfield a woman made widow earlier by the murder...