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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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Front page above the fold of an issue of the Virginia Argus and Hampshire Advertiser published on October 7, 1852.

The Virginia Argus and Hampshire Advertiser, often referred to simply as the Virginia Argus, was a weekly newspaper published between July 1850 and August 1861 in Romney, Virginia (now West Virginia). The paper's circulation of 800 copies was the second-highest in Hampshire County, after the South Branch Intelligencer's. The Virginia Argus ceased publication following its closure by the Union Army during the American Civil War, after which it was not revived.

The Virginia Argus documented the pursuit of fugitive slave Jacob Green by the Parsons family of Romney in 1856, and the ensuing dispute between the Parsons family and Charles James Faulkner over legal fees in 1857. At the time of the dispute, Faulkner was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia's 8th congressional district; he later served as the United States Minister to France, and again as a member of the United States House of Representatives from West Virginia's 2nd congressional district. (Full article...)
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Colonel Florence A. Blanchfield
Florence Aby Blanchfield (April 1, 1884 in Shepherdstown, West Virginia – May 12, 1971 in Washington, D.C.) was a United States Army Colonel and superintendent of the Army Nursing Corps, from 1943 to 1947. She was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal in 1945, and the Florence Nightingale Medal by the International Red Cross in 1951. In 1947 Blanchfield became the first woman to receive a military commission in the regular army. (Full article...)
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  • Racial plurality in West Virginia by county, per the 2020 U.S. census
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  • Seneca Rocks, Pendleton County (from West Virginia)
  • The Veterans Memorial Bridge carries US 22 from Weirton WV into Ohio. (from West Virginia)
  • The 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)
  • West Virginia population density map (from West Virginia)
  • From left, Senator Joe Manchin, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Senator Shelley Moore Capito, and Representative David McKinley (2017) (from West Virginia)
  • Thomas Lee, the first manager of the Ohio Company of Virginia (from History of West Virginia)
  • West Virginia Independence Hall, site of the Wheeling Convention (from History of West Virginia)
  • Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight, a statue on the grounds of the West Virginia State Capitol (from West Virginia)
  • John S. Carlile, a leader during the First Wheeling Convention (from History of West Virginia)
  • 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)
  • Saturday afternoon street scene, Welch, McDowell County, 1946 (from West Virginia)
  • Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, changed hands a dozen times during the American Civil War. (from History of West Virginia)
  • Votes by county in the October 1861 statehood vote (from West Virginia)
  • Bluefield, a major center for coal mining, in 2014 (from West Virginia)
  • Turnout by county in the October 24, 1861, West Virginia statehood vote (from History of West Virginia)
  • Map of West Virginia counties (from West Virginia)
  • Child labor in the coal mines of West Virginia, 1908 (from West Virginia)
  • Thomas Lee, the first manager of the Ohio Company of Virginia (from West Virginia)
  • Packed circles diagram showing estimates of the ethnic origins of people in West Virginia in 2021. (from West Virginia)
  • Counties (in blue) approving Virginia's secession from the U.S. (from History of West Virginia)
  • Köppen climate types of West Virginia, using 1991-2020 climate normals (from West Virginia)
  • Slave woman tending to a white baby in West Virginia, 1865 (from West Virginia)
  • Escaped slave broadside, Hampshire County, West Virginia, 1845 (from West Virginia)
  • Shaded relief map of the Cumberland Plateau and Ridge-and-valley Appalachians (from West Virginia)
  • Map 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)
  • The summit of Spruce Knob is often covered in clouds. (from West Virginia)
  • A view of the New River in West Virginia, the world's third-oldest river geologically (from History of West Virginia)
  • Historical coat of arms of West Virginia (illustrated, 1876) (from West Virginia)
  • A toll plaza on the West Virginia Turnpike (from West Virginia)
  • Francis H. Pierpont, a leader during the Second Wheeling Convention (from West Virginia)
  • State of Westylvania proposed to the U.S. Congress (from West Virginia)
  • Bituminous coal seam in southwestern West Virginia (from West Virginia)
  • The iconic New River Gorge Bridge near Fayetteville (from West Virginia)
  • 1751 Fry-Jefferson map showing early ferries and established colonial borders before the French And Indian War (from History of West Virginia)
  • 1715 Nicolas de Fer map showing the Native American areas known as Tionontatacaga and Calicuas (from History of West Virginia)

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  • ... that professor Ruth Ann Davis made the largest-ever single contribution to Potomac State College of West Virginia University to support nursing scholarships in memory of her mother?
  • ... that West Virginia nursing professor Christine Elizabeth Abrahamsen wrote science-fiction and Gothic novels under the pseudonyms Christabel and Kathleen Westcott?
  • ... that William H. Davis was the first teacher of Booker T. Washington and the first African American to be nominated as a candidate for West Virginia governor in 1888?
  • ... that the general manager of a West Virginia TV station called changing its network affiliation "the hardest decision I've ever had to make"?
  • ... that the California Golden Bears men's basketball team won the 1959 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game by a single point over West Virginia?
  • ... 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?

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