 About 2.1% of families and 2.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3.4% of those under age 18 and 5.1% of those age 65 or over.A commemorative marker located near the Washington, WV, post office reads;

"George Washington acquired 2,314 acres of this land in Washington Bottom by a grant, dated December 15, 1772, issued to him by John Murray, Earl of Dunmore, last Royal Governor of Virginia.Washington obtained this tract for services in the French and Indian War, upon a survey made by William Crawford, in June 1771.