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West Virginia History. West Virginia Historical Society. ISSN 0043-325X. Delf Norona (1958). West Virginia Imprints, 1790-1863: A Checklist of Books, Newspapers, Periodicals and Broadsides. Moundsville: West Virginia Library Association. OCLC 863601 – via Internet Archive. G. Thomas Tanselle (1971). "General Studies: West Virginia".
The Fayette County Public Library houses microfilm records of census records from 1840 to 1930, newspapers from 1906-present, WV county death, marriage, and birth records, Fayette County yearbooks, local magazines, family collections, the West Virginia Collection, and other miscellaneous collections about West Virginia.
The Nicholas Chronicle is a newspaper serving Summersville, West Virginia, and surrounding Nicholas County. [2] Published weekly, it has a 2016 paid circulation of 7,481 and is owned by Nicholas Co. Publishing Company, Inc. [3] It is currently the largest weekly newspaper in West Virginia. [3]
Summersville is a city in Nicholas County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 3,459 at the 2020 census. [ 3 ] It is the county seat of Nicholas County.
People executed in Charles Town, West Virginia (7 P) Pages in category "1859 deaths" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 945 total.
William Griffee Brown, History of Nicholas County West Virginia. Richmond, VA: Dietz Press, 1954. A.J. Legg, A History of Panther Mountain Community (Nicholas County, West Virginia). Morgantown, WV: Agricultural Extension Division, 1930. Nicholas County Historical and Genealogical Society, Nicholas County History.
The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. [1] West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. [2]
An Appalachian New Deal: West Virginia in the Great Depression (West Virginia University Press, 1998) 316 pp. ISBN 978-1-933202-51-8; Trotter Jr., Joe William. Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915–32 (1990) William, John Alexander. West Virginia and the Captains of Industry (1976), economic history of late 19th century.