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An Appalachian New Deal: West Virginia in the Great Depression (West Virginia University Press, 1998) 316 pp. ISBN 978-1-933202-51-8; Trotter Jr., Joe William. Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915–32 (1990) William, John Alexander. West Virginia and the Captains of Industry (1976), economic history of late 19th century.
Lee, Massachusetts; Lee, New Hampshire; and Leetown, West Virginia [81] were also named for him. Lee's place in history was further tarnished in the 1850s when George H. Moore , the librarian at the New-York Historical Society , discovered a manuscript dated 29 March 1777, written by Lee while he was a British prisoner of war.
Morgan Morgan arrived in what is now West Virginia in 1731. In January 1734, he, among others, was appointed to the 'Commission of the Peace', meaning that he was a magistrate . He probably received a Patent for 1,000 acres (4.0 km 2 ) '[i]n the Forks of the Rappahannock River & Westwood of Sherrando River' on December 12, 1734. [ 4 ]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Monongalia 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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In July 1863, the Battle of Buffington Island near Ravenswood became the only naval action in West Virginia. The 9th West Virginia supported the tinclad and ironclad naval vessels, and they and Union forces across the Ohio River captured 1700 Confederates and set the stage for the capture of CSA Major General John Hunt Morgan and ended his ...