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Historically, Gilmer County was the northwesternmost of the fiercely Democratic, secessionist counties of West Virginia. It voted Democratic in every election from 1872 to 1968 – in 1928 when there was large-scale anti-Catholic voting throughout Appalachian West Virginia it was Al Smith ’s strongest county in the state. [ 18 ]
Gilmer is an unincorporated community in Gilmer County, West Virginia, United States. Gilmer is located along West Virginia Route 5 and the Little Kanawha River, 3 miles (4.8 km) southeast of Sand Fork. [2] Gilmer had a post office, which opened on November 28, 1905, and closed on November 2, 2002. [3]
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]
The only state other than West Virginia to use magisterial districts as a minor civil division of its counties is Virginia, [1] which like West Virginia initially established a system of civil townships, in its Constitution of 1870. These were replaced by magisterial districts in 1874.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Gilmer County, West Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map.
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