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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]
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Berkeley Springs is the county seat of Morgan County. Morgan County makes up one of the central counties in the eastern panhandle. According to the United States Census Bureau, the incorporated town of Bath has a total area of 0.34 square miles (0.88 km 2), all land. [9] There are two rivers in Morgan County.
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The Journal was established as The Evening Journal in 1907 by Harry F. Byrd, a future U.S. Senator and governor of Virginia. [3] Byrd sold the paper in 1912 to associate Max von Schlegell, who sold it to H.C. Ogden in 1923.
The Morgan Messenger was founded in 1893 in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia as a Republican daily. [4] It succeeded the Morgan Mercury, a weekly founded by C. H. Hodgman. [5] Founded in 1885, the Mercury continued until much of its equipment was damaged in an October 1893 fire.
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]