Buckhannon is a city in Upshur County, West Virginia along the Buckhannon River. The population was 5,725 at the 2000 census. As of today, it has reached a population at about 7,500. It is the county seat of Upshur County^GR6. Buckhannon is home to West Virginia Wesleyan College and the annual West Virginia Strawberry Festival, held annually on the third week of May. The city is located 112 miles northeast from the capital city of Charleston and 144 miles south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Buckhannon was named by local white settlers for Buckongahelas, a renowned chief of the Lenape during the Border War, whose favorite hunting grounds were located near the present site of the city. The name Buckongahelas was widely misspoken by these Anglo-Saxon settlers as Buckongehanon. The name was further anglicized to its present form of Buckhannon.

The City of Buckhannon was established on Monday January 15, 1816 and chartered by the Virginia General Assembly in 1852. It was incorporated by Act of the West Virginia Legislature on Thursday March 9, 1933. The first courthouse was built in 1854. As the only meeting place in town, it also served as an opera house and town hall. Electricity was installed in 1891 replacing oil lamps. The building suffered fire damage in its first six months. It was razed in 1898. In its place, a Classical Revival style courthouse was begun in 1899 and completed in 1901. It is still in use today. An annex of the same style was added in 1995. In the cornerstone of the main building is a time capsule filled with turn of the 19th century artifacts.