People in Your Community…Knowledge at Your Doorstep
Welcome
The Pleasants County Extension Office, located in St. Marys, provides educational research, teaching and service in agriculture and forestry, gardening and household upkeep, family and youth issues,
and community, economic and workforce development. Our most well-known program is 4-H, but there is much more available for both youth and adults. The Extension Service has been aiding the citizens of West Virigina, and Pleasants County, for nearly 100 years. If you have questions you cannot find answers for online, you can call our office or e-mail us.
Pleasants County is a small, rural county along the Ohio River and the western border of the state, with a population (in 2006) of 7,280, and a total area of 130.73 square miles. Pleasants is part of the Parkersburg-Marietta-Vienna, WV-OH Metro Area. The WVU Extension Service office is located in St. Marys, the county seat, but we serve the entire county.
Part of the National Cooperative Extension System
With more than 3,000 county offices in the USA, the National Cooperative Extension System is the local front door for many citizens to their state land-grant institutions. All universities engage in research and teaching, but the nation’s more than 100 land-grant colleges and universities including WVU, have another critical mission: Extension. Extension means reaching out, and along with teaching and research land-grant institutions extend their resources, solving public needs with college or university resources through local programs. To meet and support the needs of local people and communities, county faculty and staff involve local residents in developing and leading specific programs and activities.
