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Morgan County is a county located in the U.S. state of West Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,063. [1] Its county seat is Berkeley Springs. [2] The county was formed in 1820 from parts of Hampshire and Berkeley Counties and named in honor of General Daniel Morgan, prominent soldier of the American Revolutionary War. [3]
Location of Morgan County in West Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Morgan County, West Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Morgan County, West Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register ...
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]
The house was built by Jacob Morgan, Richard's grandson, who was a successful merchant who lived and worked in Alexandria, Virginia. Richard's son William inherited the property in 1855. William Morgan became a Confederate officer with the start of the American Civil War, serving with Generals J.E.B. Stuart and Turner Ashby.
Smith Crossroads is an unincorporated community in Morgan County in the U.S. state of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle.The hamlet lies at the crossroads of the Winchester Grade Road (County Route 13) with County Routes 26 and 13/1.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of West Virginia from 1861 to 1959. Capital punishment was abolished in West Virginia in 1965. [ 1 ] From 1861 to 1959, 112 people have been executed in West Virginia, [ 2 ] 102 by hanging , 9 by electrocution and 1 by hanging in chains .
West Virginia regions 1863. West Virginia was created out of three regions of Virginia; the Northwest, the Shenandoah Valley, and the Southwest. [15] When secession from the United States became an issue for Virginia, there was little support for it in the counties bordering the states of Ohio and Pennsylvania, but there was more support in the central and southern counties of what became West ...
The former Saint Charles Catholic Mission Church is an historic building in Paw Paw, Morgan County, West Virginia. It was built in 1876 in a simple Gothic Revival architectural style. It is a rectangular one story woodframe building on a stone foundation. The building served as a place of worship for a small number of Catholic families until ...