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West Virginia
History
Northern Panhandle |
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Brooke
County Created
in 1797 from part of Ohio County and named in honor of Robert Brooke, Governor of Virginia
from 1794-1796.
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Hancock
County Smallest county in the state. Created from Brooke County in 1848, and
named for John Hancock, first signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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Marshall
County Formed from Ohio County in 1835 and named for John Marshall, for
thirty-four years Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Count. Elizabethtown,
named as the county seat in the act creating the county was combined with Moundsville in
1866.
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Ohio
County Formed in 1776 from the District of West Augusta (Virginia), and named
for the county's principal river, the Ohio, Indian name for "great river."
One of the first counties in Virginia organized west of the Allegheny Mountains.
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