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CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. (DC News Now) — Jefferson County, in West Virginia’s eastern panhandle, experienced tremendous upheaval from the Civil War in and around Charles Town. On Saturday at 11:30 ...
Spirit of Jefferson is an independent, weekly newspaper covering Charles Town and Jefferson County, West Virginia. Originally two separate papers, "The Spirit of Jefferson", first published in 1844, and "The Farmer's Advocate", first published in 1890. were both sold to Ralph Dorsey in 1935. [2] In 1948, the two papers were merged.
Jefferson County is located in the Shenandoah Valley in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia.It is the easternmost county of the U.S. state of West Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 57,701. [1]
The newspaper changed its name in 1913 to The Martinsburg West Va. Evening Journal; in 1920, to The Martinsburg Journal; back to The Evening Journal in 1978; to The Morning Journal in 1990; and to its current name in 1993. [3] H.C. Ogden's grandson, G. Ogden Nutting, began his newspaper career at The Martinsburg Journal as a reporter and news ...
The city's mayor was quoted in local news reports as saying nine people were injured in storm-related incidents. (1:01 p.m. ET) Death Toll Rises At least five vehicle-related deaths are now being ...
West Virginia History. West Virginia Historical Society. ISSN 0043-325X. Delf Norona (1958). West Virginia Imprints, 1790-1863: A Checklist of Books, Newspapers, Periodicals and Broadsides. Moundsville: West Virginia Library Association. OCLC 863601 – via Internet Archive. G. Thomas Tanselle (1971). "General Studies: West Virginia".
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]
Location of Jefferson County in West Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Jefferson County, West Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States. The locations of National ...