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Panorama northwest, northeast and east from a ridge along West Virginia Route 42 between Elk Garden and Sulphur City in Mineral County, West Virginia (2016)

West Virginia is a state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. It is bordered by Pennsylvania to the north and east, Maryland to the east and northeast, Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, and Ohio to the northwest. West Virginia is the 10th-smallest state by area and ranks as the 12th-least populous state, with a population of 1,793,716 residents. The capital and most populous city is Charleston with a population of 49,055.

West Virginia was admitted to the Union on June 20, 1863, and was a key border state during the American Civil War. It was the only state to form by separating from a Confederate state, one of two states (along with Nevada) admitted to the Union during the Civil War, and the second state to separate from another state, after Maine separated from Massachusetts in 1820. Some of its residents held slaves, but most were yeoman farmers, and the delegates provided for the gradual abolition of slavery in the new state constitution. The state legislature abolished slavery in the state, and at the same time ratified the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery nationally on February 3, 1865.

West Virginia's northern panhandle extends adjacent to Pennsylvania and Ohio to form a tristate area, with Wheeling, Weirton, and Morgantown just across the border from the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. Huntington in the southwest is close to Ohio and Kentucky, while Martinsburg and Harpers Ferry in the eastern panhandle region are considered part of the Washington metropolitan area, between Maryland and Virginia. West Virginia is often included in several U.S. geographical regions, including the Mid-Atlantic, the Upland South, and the Southeastern United States. It is the only state entirely within the area served by the Appalachian Regional Commission; the area is commonly defined as " Appalachia". ( Full article...)

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The Confederate Memorial in 2010

The Confederate Memorial (also referred to as the First Confederate Memorial) at Indian Mound Cemetery in Romney, West Virginia, commemorates residents of Hampshire County who died during the American Civil War while fighting for the Confederate States of America. It was sponsored by the Confederate Memorial Association, which formally dedicated the monument on September 26, 1867. The town of Romney has claimed that this is the first memorial structure erected to memorialize the Confederate dead in the United States and that the town performed the nation's first public decoration of Confederate graves on June 1, 1866.

The idea to memorialize the Confederate war dead of Hampshire County was first discussed in the spring of 1866. Following the decoration of the graves that summer, the Confederate Memorial Association engaged in fundraising for construction of the memorial, and by 1867 the necessary funds were raised. The inscription The Daughters of Old Hampshire Erect This Tribute of Affection to Her Heroic Sons Who Fell in Defence of Southern Rights was selected, and the contract for the memorial's construction was awarded to the Gaddes Brothers firm of Baltimore. The memorial's components were delivered to Indian Mound Cemetery on September 14, 1867, and the memorial was dedicated on September 26 of that year. The construction of the Confederate Memorial marked the beginning of an era of post-war revitalization for Hampshire County following the American Civil War. ( Full article...)

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Virginia Ruth "Jennie" Lewis (née Egnor; November 29, 1921 – October 9, 2001), known professionally as Dagmar, was an American actress, model, and television personality. In the 1950s she became one of the first major female stars of television, receiving much press coverage. ( Full article...)

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Racial plurality in West Virginia by county, per the 2020 U.S. census

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Non-Hispanic White

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Image 2Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight, a statue on the grounds of the West Virginia State Capitol (from West Virginia)
Image 3 John S. Carlile, a leader during the First Wheeling Convention (from History of West Virginia)
Image 4The Linsly Institute building in Wheeling, West Virginia, which served as the state's first capitol building from statehood in 1863 until March 28, 1870, when the capitol was transferred to Charleston, West Virginia (from History of West Virginia)
Image 5The Veterans Memorial Bridge carries US 22 from Weirton WV into Ohio. (from West Virginia)
Image 6Saturday afternoon street scene, Welch, McDowell County, 1946 (from West Virginia)
Image 7 Thomas Lee, the first manager of the Ohio Company of Virginia (from History of West Virginia)
Image 8Slave woman tending to a white baby in West Virginia, 1865 (from West Virginia)
Image 9 Bituminous coal seam in southwestern West Virginia (from West Virginia)
Image 10 Escaped slave broadside, Hampshire County, West Virginia, 1845 (from West Virginia)
Image 11Counties (in blue) approving Virginia's secession from the U.S. (from History of West Virginia)
Image 12State of Westylvania proposed to the U.S. Congress (from West Virginia)
Image 13Shaded relief map of the Cumberland Plateau and Ridge-and-valley Appalachians (from West Virginia)
Image 14The summit of Spruce Knob is often covered in clouds. (from West Virginia)
Image 15Seneca Rocks, Pendleton County (from West Virginia)
Image 16 Köppen climate types of West Virginia, using 1991-2020 climate normals (from West Virginia)
Image 17Turnout by county in the October 24, 1861, West Virginia statehood vote (from History of West Virginia)
Image 18Map of West Virginia counties (from West Virginia)
Image 19A view of the New River in West Virginia, the world's third-oldest river geologically (from History of West Virginia)
Image 20 Thomas Lee, the first manager of the Ohio Company of Virginia (from West Virginia)
Image 21Packed circles diagram showing estimates of the ethnic origins of people in West Virginia in 2021. (from West Virginia)
Image 22A toll plaza on the West Virginia Turnpike (from West Virginia)
Image 23Map of Virginia dated June 13, 1861, featuring the percentage of slave population within each county at the 1860 census and the proposed state of Kanawha (from West Virginia)
Image 24West Virginia population density map (from West Virginia)
Image 25 Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, changed hands a dozen times during the American Civil War. (from History of West Virginia)
Image 26 Historical coat of arms of West Virginia (illustrated, 1876) (from West Virginia)
Image 27 Bluefield, a major center for coal mining, in 2014 (from West Virginia)
Image 28 West Virginia Independence Hall, site of the Wheeling Convention (from History of West Virginia)
Image 291715 Nicolas de Fer map showing the Native American areas known as Tionontatacaga and Calicuas (from History of West Virginia)
Image 30Votes by county in the October 1861 statehood vote (from West Virginia)
Image 31The iconic New River Gorge Bridge near Fayetteville (from West Virginia)
Image 32 Child labor in the coal mines of West Virginia, 1908 (from West Virginia)
Image 331751 Fry-Jefferson map showing early ferries and established colonial borders before the French And Indian War (from History of West Virginia)
Image 34From left, Senator Joe Manchin, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Senator Shelley Moore Capito, and Representative David McKinley (2017) (from West Virginia)
Image 35 Harpers Ferry alternated between Confederate and Union rule eight times during the American Civil War, and was finally annexed by West Virginia. (from West Virginia)
Image 36 Francis H. Pierpont, a leader during the Second Wheeling Convention (from West Virginia)

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... that West Virginia nursing professor Christine Elizabeth Abrahamsen wrote science-fiction and Gothic novels under the pseudonyms Christabel and Kathleen Westcott?
... that after nearly killing a man in a duel, Edgar P. Rucker went on to become the attorney general of West Virginia?
... that West Virginia lawyer Arthur G. Froe served as D.C. Recorder of Deeds under three presidents and was appointed by President Wilson as a draft board legal advisor during World War I?
... that James Dillon Armstrong was a Virginia state senator, a delegate to West Virginia's constitutional convention, and a circuit court judge while serving for more than 43 years as a Presbyterian church elder?
... that in 1993, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld West Virginia's largest punitive damages award in history, awarding $10 million – 526 times larger than the compensatory damages?
... that prior to becoming West Virginia's first African-American judge, Leon P. Miller was McDowell County's assistant prosecuting attorney, a Welch city councilman, and U.S. Attorney for the Virgin Islands?

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