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'''1719:''' Presbyterians founded the first church in West Virginia, Potomoke Church at Shepherdstown. <ref name="Bushong" /> | '''1719:''' Presbyterians founded the first church in West Virginia, Potomoke Church at Shepherdstown. <ref name="Bushong" /> | ||
'''1731-1734:''' [http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0108289.html Morgan Morgan], the first white settler in West Virginia established a home in Berkeley County, Virginia. <ref>''West Virginia: A Guide to the Mountain State''. West Virginia Federal Writers' Project. Jim Comstock, 1973. Pages 559. Full text digital version at [http://books.google.com/books?id=Q3n11Tg9kDoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=West+Virginia:+a+guide+to+the+mountain+state&ei=6v8_SvzULZDOlQTbkKDrDg Google Books] </ref> | '''1731-1734:''' [http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0108289.html Morgan Morgan], the first white settler in West Virginia established a home in Berkeley County, Virginia. <ref>''West Virginia: A Guide to the Mountain State''. West Virginia Federal Writers' Project. Jim Comstock, 1973. Pages 559. Full text digital version at [http://books.google.com/books?id=Q3n11Tg9kDoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=West+Virginia:+a+guide+to+the+mountain+state&ei=6v8_SvzULZDOlQTbkKDrDg Google Books] </ref> | ||
'''1738:''' Frederick and Augusta counties were formed from Orange County, Virginia. Frederick County included territory later in the Eastern panhandle of West Virginia and began functioning in 1743. Augusta County encompassed all the area west of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ridge_Mountains Blue Ridge mountains] north of the Carolinas and began functioning in 1745. | |||
'''1753: ''' Hampshire County, Virginia was created. This was the first county whose boundaries were within present-day West Virginia. | '''1753: ''' Hampshire County, Virginia was created. This was the first county whose boundaries were within present-day West Virginia. | ||
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'''1803:''' First newspaper west of the Alleghenies is the [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wvhampsh/nzppr.htm Monongalia Gazette and Morgantown Advertiser]. | '''1803:''' First newspaper west of the Alleghenies is the [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wvhampsh/nzppr.htm Monongalia Gazette and Morgantown Advertiser]. | ||
'''1804:''' Mason county was created from Kanawha county. | '''1804:''' Mason county was created from Kanawha county. '''1818:''' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Road The Cumberland Road] (or National Road) was completed from Cumberland, Maryland, to Wheeling. Counties were changed with Preston county being created from Monongalia county and Nicholas county was created from Greenbrier, Kanawha, Randolph Counties. Charles Town renamed Charleston. | ||
'''1831''': Jackson County was created from Mason, Wood, and Kanawha Counties. | '''1831''': Jackson County was created from Mason, Wood, and Kanawha Counties. | ||