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The 1861 Wheeling Convention was an assembly of Southern Unionist delegates from the northwestern ... The First Wheeling Convention was held on May 13 through May 15 ...
Although the state moved quickly to seize federal facilities in other parts of the state, the Wheeling custom house was not taken over, and was then used as a center of opposition. The Wheeling Convention of May 1861, held in this building, included the first calls for the separation of that portion of the state, whose economy was intertwined ...
The Second Wheeling Convention met as agreed on June 11, 1861, and adopted "A Declaration of the People of Virginia". This document, drafted by former state senator John S. Carlile, declared that the Virginia Declaration of Rights required any substantial change in the nature or form of the state government to be approved by the people ...
This category includes delegates participating in the 1861 Wheeling Convention, which established the Restored Government of Virginia and ultimately led to the establishment of West Virginia. Pages in category "Delegates of the 1861 Wheeling Convention"
West Virginia regions 1863. West Virginia was created out of three regions of Virginia; the Northwest, the Shenandoah Valley, and the Southwest. [15] When secession from the United States became an issue for Virginia, there was little support for it in the counties bordering the states of Ohio and Pennsylvania, but there was more support in the central and southern counties of what became West ...
When the Second Wheeling Convention met in its first session, in June 1861, it adopted "A Declaration of the People of Virginia". [2] The declaration stated that the Virginia Declaration of Rights required any substantial change in the form or nature of state government to be approved by the people.
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The geopolitical separation from Virginia had been approved by the Second Wheeling Convention of August 20, 1861. [1] [2] The proposed name of "Kanawha" was based on the prominence of the Kanawha River running through the area (itself named after the local Canawagh, or Kanawha, Indian band, [3] which were driven out of the area by the Iroquois [4] sometime after 1780) and was originally ...