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'''Eleanor''' is a town in [[Putnam County, West Virginia|Putnam County]], [[West Virginia]], United States, along the [[Kanawha River]].<ref>{{cite book| title= West Virginia Atlas & Gazetteer |year=1997 |publisher= [[DeLorme]] |location=Yarmouth, Me. |isbn= 0-89933-246-3 |pages= 42}}</ref> Its population was 1,518 at the 2010 census.<ref name="Census 2010">{{Cite web| url=https://www.census.gov| title=Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Eleanor town, West Virginia| publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]| access-date=November 28, 2011}}</ref> The town, named for [[Eleanor Roosevelt]], was established as a [[New Deal]] project in the 1930s <ref>{{cite book|last=Kenny|first=Hamill|title=West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015009099824;view=1up;seq=252;size=125|year=1945|publisher=The Place Name Press|location=Piedmont, WV|page=224}}</ref> like other [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] towns around the nation (e.g. [[Greenbelt, Maryland|Greenbelt]], [[Greenhills, Ohio|Greenhills]], [[Greendale, Wisconsin|Greendale]], [[Hanford, Washington|Hanford]], or [[Norris, Tennessee|Norris]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/25/us/25eleanor.html?scp=1&sq=Eleanor&st=cse|title=From New Deal to New Hard Times, Eleanor Endures|last=Barry|first=Dan|work=The New York Times|date=December 24, 2009|access-date=November 28, 2011}}</ref>
Eleanor is a part of the [[Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH, Metropolitan Statistical Area]] (MSA).
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