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Southwest Virginia, often abbreviated as SWVA, is a mountainous region of Virginia in the westernmost part of the commonwealth.Located within the broader region of western Virginia, Southwest Virginia has been defined alternatively as all Virginia counties on the Appalachian Plateau, all Virginia counties west of the Eastern Continental Divide, or at its greatest expanse, as far east as ...
The region is also closely identified with Southwestern Virginia and Eastern Kentucky, with close proximity to Western North Carolina and East Tennessee, which are all part of Appalachia and the Upland South. Southern West Virginia, in a cultural and historical context, includes Boone County, Fayette County, Greenbrier County, Lincoln County ...
1855 J. H. Colton Company map of Virginia that predates the West Virginia partition by seven years.. Numerous state partition proposals have been put forward since the 1776 establishment of the United States that would partition an existing U.S. state or states so that a particular region might either join another state or create a new state.
West Virginia is the 10th-smallest state by area and ranks as the 12th-least populous state, with a population of 1,793,716 residents. [5] The capital and most populous city is Charleston with a population of 49,055. West Virginia was admitted to the Union on June 20, 1863, and was a key border state during the American Civil War.
Washington metropolitan area (District of Columbia and parts of Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia) Greater Boston (parts of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire) Charlotte metropolitan area (parts of North Carolina and South Carolina) Chattanooga Metropolitan Area; Chicago metropolitan area (parts of Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin)
1st West Virginia legislature: 1863 2nd West Virginia legislature [Wikidata] 1864 3rd West Virginia legislature [Wikidata] 1865 4th West Virginia legislature [Wikidata] 1866 5th West Virginia legislature [Wikidata] 1867 6th West Virginia legislature [Wikidata] 1868 7th West Virginia legislature [Wikidata] 1869
The district in its final form, from 2013 to 2023. West Virginia's 3rd congressional district is an obsolete U.S. congressional district in southern West Virginia.At various times the district covered different parts of the state, but in its final form included the state's second-largest city, Huntington; included Bluefield, Princeton, and Beckley; and has a long history of coal mining ...
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.