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Letart is an unincorporated community in Mason County, West Virginia, United States. It is located on the Ohio River. [1] [2] Letart is part of the Point Pleasant, WV–OH Micropolitan Statistical Area. The community was named after one Mr. LeTart, a local pioneer settler. [3]
The district's first post office was established at Letart Falls about 1840, followed by those at Flat Rock and Brighton. [5] After West Virginia gained its independence from Virginia in 1863, the legislature enacted a law requiring the counties to be divided into civil townships.
Mason County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 25,453. [1] Its county seat and largest city is Point Pleasant. [2] The county was founded in 1804 and named for George Mason, [3] delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention.
Letart Island is a forested bar island on the Ohio River in Mason County, West Virginia. It is located between the towns of Letart , West Virginia and Letart Falls , Ohio . Letart Island is a part of the Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge .
The land that would become Mason County, West Virginia was first surveyed in 1772 by a team led by George Washington.They surveyed a tract of 51,302 acres, just over eighty square miles, north of a line drawn between Letart Falls and the mouth of Threemile Creek on the Great Kanawha, including all of Graham District, all of Waggener, and most of Robinson and Lewis Districts.
The land that would become Mason County, West Virginia was first surveyed in 1772 by a team led by George Washington. They surveyed a tract of 51,302 acres, just over eighty square miles, north of a line drawn between Letart Falls and the mouth of the Great Kanawha , including all of Waggener District, all of Graham, and most of Robinson and ...
The land that would become Mason County, West Virginia was first surveyed in 1772 by a team led by George Washington.They surveyed a tract of 51,302 acres, just over eighty square miles, north of a line drawn between Letart Falls and the mouth of the Great Kanawha, including most of Robinson and Lewis Districts, along with all of Graham and Waggener.
The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. [1] West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. [2]