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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".
Crow is an unincorporated community in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States. Crow is located on West Virginia Route 307 , 6 miles (9.7 km) east-southeast of Beckley . The community was named after the black crow native to the area.
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]
Crow Summit is an unincorporated community in Jackson County, West Virginia, United States. Crow Summit is located on County Route 56, 6.2 miles (10.0 km) north of Ripley. [2] Crow Summit once had a post office, which is now closed. [3] The community was named after Michael Crow, an original owner of the town site. [4]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Harrison County, West Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map.
Henry Mason Mathews (March 29, 1834 – April 28, 1884) was an American military officer, lawyer, and politician in the U.S. State of West Virginia.Mathews served as the seventh attorney general of West Virginia (1873–1877) and the fifth governor of West Virginia (1877–1881), being the first former Confederate elected to the governorship in the state.
The oldest surviving Washington family house in Jefferson County also is the only one still owned by members of the extended Washington family. [7] Modern archeological excavations of a graveyard at Harewood noted that some remains were moved to the graveyard of Zion Episcopal Church in Charles Town in 1882, and have identified the remains of Lucy Payne (wife of George Steptoe Washington) and ...
3.5 mi (5.6 km) west of Charles Town off Virginia State Route 51 and south on County Road 51/1 39°17′06″N 77°55′22″W / 39.285°N 77.922778°W / 39.285; -77.922778 ( Cedar Charles Town