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However, slaveowners in western Virginia tended to own fewer slaves than their counterparts in eastern Virginia and many did not support Virginia's secession. [10] In Mason County, where small farms were reliant upon slavery, its residents overwhelmingly supported the Union cause. [9]
The Manor (West Virginia) Maplewood (Pliny, West Virginia) James Mason House and Farm; May–Kraus Farm; Gen. John McCausland House; McClung's Price Place; The Meadows (Moorefield, West Virginia) Media Farm; Miller Tavern and Farm; Miller–Pence Farm
United States historic place Ridgedale U.S. National Register of Historic Places U.S. Historic district Washington Bottom Farm Show map of Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia Washington Bottom Farm Show map of West Virginia Washington Bottom Farm Show map of the United States Coordinates 39°24′49″N 78°44′19″W / 39.41361°N 78.73861°W / 39.41361; -78.73861 Area 251.6 acres ...
There are listings in every one of West Virginia's 55 counties. Listings range from prehistoric sites such as Grave Creek Mound, to Cool Spring Farm in the state's eastern panhandle, one of the state's first homesteads, to relatively newer, yet still historical, residences and commercial districts.
Heritage Farm Museum and Village is an open-air living history museum in Huntington, West Virginia that focuses on Appalachian history and culture.Originally conceived as a location to house and display the private collection of A. Michael "Mike" and Henriella Perry, Heritage Farm has expanded into an entire Appalachian Frontier Village that was recently [when?] named West Virginia's first ...
View history; Tools. Tools. ... Plantations in the region of western Virginia that became West Virginia in 1863. ... West Virginia) Washington Bottom Farm
Stump Family Farm is a national historic district located near Moorefield, Hardy County, West Virginia. The district encompasses three contributing buildings and one contributing site. It includes a cabin constructed of rough hewn white oak with a top log of pine, built about 1775.
"The View from the Border: West Virginia Republicans and Women's Rights in the Age of Emancipation," West Virginia History, Spring2009, Vol. 3 Issue 1, pp 57–80, 1861–1870 era; Gerofsky, Milton. "Reconstruction in West Virginia, Part I and II," West Virginia History 6 (July 1945); Part I, 295–360, 7 (October 1945): Part II, 5–39, Link ...