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Mason County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 25,453. [1] Its county seat and largest city is Point Pleasant. [2] The county was founded in 1804 and named for George Mason, [3] delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention.
Mason County was divided into ten townships, each of which was named after a pioneer settler of Mason County. Union Township was originally named in honor of Jesse Van Bibber, the first settler of the district, but in the midst of the patriotic fervor of the Civil War, it was soon renamed "Union", a name it came to share with districts in ...
Geography. Arbuckle District is located in the central portion of Mason County, between the Kanawha River and the northern end of Putnam County.To the north, it is bounded by the Kanawha River, and by Lewis and Cooper Districts; to the northeast by the Kanawha and Cologne District; to the east by the Kanawha and Union District; to the south by the Buffalo-Union District of Putnam County ...
The land that would become Mason County, West Virginia was first surveyed in 1772 by a team led by George Washington. They surveyed a tract of 51,302 acres, just over eighty square miles, north of a line drawn between Letart Falls and the mouth of the Great Kanawha , including most of Robinson and Lewis Districts, along with all of Graham and ...
After West Virginia gained its independence from Virginia in 1863, the legislature enacted a law requiring the counties to be divided into civil townships. Mason County was divided into ten townships, each of which was named after a pioneer settler of Mason County. Like the other townships, Waggener was converted into a magisterial district in ...
Map of Céloron's expedition in 1749; the site of Point Pleasant is marked by a red diamond above the mouth of the Kanawha, here called "R. Chinondaichio".. Although there is abundant evidence of Indian presence in the lands that would become Mason County prior to the arrival of Europeans, including by various groups of Mound Builders, by the mid-eighteenth century the area was largely ...
Mason County was divided into ten townships, each of which was named after a pioneer settler of Mason County. Cologne Township was originally named in honor of Thomas Lemaster, an early settler of the county, but in 1864 [ii] it was renamed "Cologne". [4] [13] Like the other townships, Cologne was converted into a magisterial district in 1872 ...
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