Apr 7, 2016 · History of Kanawha County : from its organization in 1789 until the present time : embracing accounts of early settlements, and thrilling adventures with the Indians derived from history and aged citizens ; also, biographical sketches of a large number of the early settlers of the Great Kanawha Valley

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Kanawha was formed in 1789, from Greenbrier and Montgomery, and named from its principal river. Its present area is 980 square miles. Here, as elsewhere throughout the State, the first lands surveyed were patented largely by soldiers, who received them as bounties under Dinwiddie's proclamation of 1754, for services in the French and Indian War.

History of Kanawha County, from its organization in 1789 until the present time : embracing accounts of early settlements, and thrilling adventures with the Indians, derived from history and aged citizens : also biographical sketches of a large number of the early settlers of the Great Kanawha Valley

Authorized, 1788; organized in 1789 from Greenbrier and Montgomery. Named for the Kanawha River, bearing name of Indian tribe. Salt making brought early settlers into the valley and from it grew vast modern chemical plants.

History of Kanawha County, from its organization in 1789 until the present time : embracing accounts of early settlements, and thrilling adventures with the Indians, derived from history and aged citizens : also biographical sketches of a large number of the early settlers of the Great Kanawha Valley: by Geo. W. Atkinson

List of Delegates to the Virginia Assembly From Kanawha County 1789-1863. Trans Allegheny Pioneers, Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Graphics, 1886. ... Kanawha County, West Virginia, Bruen Property Land Purchases From 47,000 Acre Sheba Tract 1850-1908. ... "Map of Coal River Lock and Dam System," n.p. n.d. "Marshall Hansford House," Montgomery ...

History of Kanawha County : from its organization in 1789 until the present time : embracing accounts of early settlements, and thrilling adventures with the Indians, derived from history …

History of Kanawha County : from its organization in 1789 until the present time : embracing accounts of early settlements, and thrilling adventures with ...

Kanawha county was formed in an Act of the Virginia Legislature in 1789, from portions of Greenbrier and Montgomery counties. "Kanawha" comes from an indian name meaning "place of white stone" this was probability because of the salt that was found in the area.