, West Virginia, USA
1895 - West Virginia

West Virginia, an E. central state of the American Union, lying in the Appalachian region, and bounded N. by Pennsylvania and Maryland, E. by Pennsylvania and Maryland, S.E. by Virginia, S.W. by Virginia and Kentucky, and N.W., by Ohio. Area, 24,780 square miles. It is very irregular in outline, and sends out to the morthward a narrow point between Ohio and Pennsylvania, known as the Panhandle. From Ohio it is separated by the Ohio River, from Kentucky by the Sandy and its Tug Fork, from Maryland for the most part by the Potomac, and from Virginia by a series of mountain-ranges...

The Principal Towns and Cities are wheeling, the principal seat of commerce and manufactures (pop. in 1880, 30,737; in 1890, 34,522); the Ohio River towns of Huntington (pop. 1890, 10,108), Parkersburg (8408), and Moundsville (2688); and the interior towns of Charleston, the capital (6742), Grafton (3159), Clarksburg (3008), Ben: wood (2934), Hinton (2570), New Cumberland (2305), Charlestown (2287), Wellsburg (2235), Keyser (2165), Weston (2143), besides Morgantown, Romney, Harper's Ferry, and other places of considerable importance, Government, &c...

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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