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Kanawha County.Kanawha is today one of the largest and most influential of West Virginia counties. It has always been large for when it was formed it covered all of the southwestern corner of the present State. Fourteen counties have been carved from its extensive territory—Mason (1804), Cabell (1809), Nicholas (1818), Logan (1824), Fayette (1831), Jackson (1831), Braxton (1836), Gilmer (1843), Boone (1847), Putnam (1848), Calhoun (1855), Roane (1856), Clay (1856) and Lincoln (1867). The new county received the western lands of both Greenbrier and Montgomery. The beautiful name Kanawha was taken from the river. The county is hopelessly irregular in shape, drained chiefly by the Kanawha and the Elk, which unite at Charleston. The first settler in these parts had the good Irish name of Kelley and his creek is Kelley’s creek until this day. The first who came to Coal creek was one Lewis Tackett. He made liis home near St. Albans. Four forts were soon erected to hold the country. They were located at Lewisburg, Charleston, Tackett’s Fort and Point Pleasant. Tackett’s Fort was destroyed by the Indians (1788) and he taken prisoner. Ca tin el ton is called for the cannel coal found thereabout.
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Richmond Dispatch
Richmond, Virginia, US
Wed, Dec 05, 1894
Page 4
Full Page
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Larry B.
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