Place:Eleanor, Putnam, West Virginia, United States

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NameEleanor
TypeTown
Coordinates38.539°N 81.931°W
Located inPutnam, West Virginia, United States
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Eleanor is a town in Putnam County, West Virginia, U.S., along the Kanawha River. Its population was 1,518 at the 2010 census. The town was established as a New Deal project in the 1930s and named for Eleanor Roosevelt. Like other Franklin D. Roosevelt towns around the nation (such as Greenbelt, Greenhills, Greendale, Hanford, or Norris), it was a "sundown town", for whites only.

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