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Monongalia and County

At this time the region was still a part of Monongalia County, Virginia.

* Monongalia County and Marion County ( east )

* Monongalia County ( north )

It was formed from Monongalia County in 1818 and named for Virginia Governor James Patton Preston.

Monongalia County, known locally as Mon County, is a county located in the U. S. state of West Virginia.

Monongalia County is in magenta.

Monongalia County takes its name from the Monongahela River.

Monongalia County was formed in 1776 when Virginia's remote District of West Augusta was divided into three counties: Ohio, Yohogania and Monongalia, all named for their most prominent rivers.

In 1780, in his Notes on the State of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson gave the militia enrollment of what was then the vast Monongalia County at 1, 000 troops.

In 1776 part of western Augusta County, an area also known as the District of West Augusta, became Monongalia County, Ohio County, and Yohogania County ( abolished in 1786 ).

* Monongalia County, West Virginia ( south )

* Monongalia County, West Virginia ( southwest )

The first white settlement in present-day Barbour County was established about 3 miles downriver from the future site of Philippi in 1780, at which time the area was still part of western Virginia and included within Monongalia County.

Thomas Nutter had received a land grant for 1, 400 acres ( 5. 7 km² ) of land along Elk Creek in what was then Monongalia County.

* Established in 1820 as Middletown, then in Monongalia County, it was chartered by the Virginia General Assembly in 1843 as Fairmont, a contraction of " Fair Mountain ".

Baker apparently bought out his partners and, in turn, sold the parcel to James Hanway, a surveyor living in Monongalia County, who parceled the land and began selling it.

Blacksville is a town in Monongalia County, West Virginia, USA.

Monongalia and encompassed

Monongalia County encompassed much of what is now north-central West Virginia, and parts of what are now Washington, Greene and Fayette Counties in Pennsylvania.

Monongalia and what

Nicholas Decker, the first settler to establish a settlement in the vicinity of what is now Morgantown, on 29 April 1781, surveyed for Zackquill Morgan assignee of Isaac Lemasters, of land in Monongalia County, on Deckers Creek and the Monongahela River, including his settlement thereon in the year 1772, agreeable to and in part of a certificate for from the commissioners of adjusting claims to unpatented lands in the county of Monongalia — James Chew, assisted Mr. James Madison, surveyor.

( Similarly, part of Ohio County's claim are now in Washington and Greene Counties in Pennsylvania, and part of what had been considered Monongalia County are in Washington, Greene, and Fayette Counties, Pennsylvania.

Monongalia and are

Monongalia County and the town of Monongah in West Virginia, and Monongahela in Pennsylvania are named after the river.

Monongalia and now

That District consisted of Berkeley County, Frederick County, Hampshire County, Hardy County, Harrison County, Monongalia County, Ohio County and Randolph County, which cover the area which is now the eastern part of West Virginia and the northernmost county of Virginia, all within Virginia's 1st congressional district, which also included Shenandoah County.

Monongalia and counties

Mountaineer Council services the counties of Monongalia, Marion, Preston, and Taylor.

In an apparent effort to strengthen its political control of the area, in November 1776 Virginia reorganized the District of West Augusta into three counties: Ohio County, Monongalia County, and Yohogania County.

These counties contained land claimed by Yohogania and Ohio or ( in Fayette's case ) Monongalia counties.

The survey determined that parts of Ohio and Monongalia counties and nearly all of Yohogania County were within the Pennsylvania boundaries.

( Greene County, formed in 1796 from Washington, does not include any territory once claimed by Yohogania but was once claimed by Ohio and Monongalia counties.

On June 20, 1863, both Brooke and Hancock, as well as Ohio and Monongalia ( and the counties since formed from Ohio and Monongalia ) became part of the new state of West Virginia.

Roman W. Prezioso, Jr. is a West Virginia state senator representing the 13th senatorial district which comprises parts of Marion and Monongalia counties.

In 1776, the District of West Augusta was divided into three counties: Ohio County, Monongalia County, and Yohogania County.

The Second District as originally formed in 1863 included Taylor, Marion, Monongalia, Preston, Tucker, Barbour, Upshur, Webster, Pocahontas, Randolph, Pendleton, Hardy, Hampshire, Berkeley, and Morgan counties ( Jefferson county's status in the state was still in dispute, and Grant and Mineral counties were still part of other counties, but the modern territory of all was also included ).

In 1902, the district was changed to Monongalia, Preston, Tucker, Taylor, Barbour, Tucker, Randolph, Pendleton, Grant, Hardy, Mineral, Hampshire, Morgan, Berkeley, and Jefferson counties.

1992 began the district as currently constituted, consisting of Barbour, Brooke, Doddridge, Grant, Hancock, Harrison, Marion, Marshall, Mineral, Monongalia, Ohio, Pleasants, Preston, Ritchie, Taylor, Tucker, Tyler, Wetzel and Wood counties.

Monongalia and West