Portal:West Virginia

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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. Mountainous, it is bordered by Pennsylvania and Maryland to the 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 1,769,979 residents. The capital and most populous city is Charleston with a population of 49,055. West Virginia is the easternmost completely landlocked U.S. state as having no access neither to the Great Lakes nor to the ocean.

West Virginia was admitted to the Union on June 20, 1863, and was a key border state during the American Civil War. It separated from Virginia and was one of two states (along with Nevada) admitted to the Union during the Civil War. Some of its residents held slaves, but most were propertied 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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Main façade (northwestern elevation) of Hebron Church, 2015

Hebron Church (also historically known as Great Capon Church, Hebron Lutheran Church, and Hebron Evangelical Lutheran Church) is a mid-19th-century Lutheran church in Intermont, Hampshire County, in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Hebron Church was founded in 1786 by German settlers in the Cacapon River Valley, making it the first Lutheran church west of the Shenandoah Valley. The congregation worshiped in a log church, which initially served both Lutheran and Reformed denominations. Its congregation was originally German-speaking; the church's documents and religious services were in German until 1821, when records and sermons transitioned to English.

The church's congregation built the present Greek Revival-style 1+1⁄2-story church building in 1849, when it was renamed Hebron on the Cacapon. The original log church was moved across the road and subsequently used as a sexton's house, Sunday school classroom, and public schoolhouse (attended by future West Virginia governor Herman G. Kump). (Full article...)

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Corbett in 2019

John Joseph Corbett Jr. (born May 9, 1961) is an American actor and country music singer. On television, he is best known for his roles as Chris Stevens on Northern Exposure (1990–1995), Aidan Shaw on Sex and the City (2000–2003) and sequel series And Just Like That... (2023-), Max Gregson on United States of Tara (2009–2011), and Seth Holt on Parenthood (2011–2015). In film, he is known for roles in the My Big Fat Greek Wedding franchise, Raising Helen (2004), The Messengers (2007), Sex and the City 2 (2010), Ramona & Beezus (2010), and the To All the Boys film trilogy (2018–2021).

In addition to acting, Corbett has pursued a career in country music, releasing the studio albums John Corbett (2006) and Leaving Nothin' Behind (2013) with the former reaching number 45 on the Billboard Country Albums chart. (Full article...)

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Image 1Spruce Knob (in the distance) is the highest point in West Virginia and the Allegheny Mountains (from West Virginia)
Image 2Köppen climate types of West Virginia, using 1991–2020 climate normals (from West Virginia)
Image 3State of Westsylvania proposed to the U.S. Congress (from West Virginia)
Image 4Thomas Lee, the first manager of the Ohio Company of Virginia (from History of West Virginia)
Image 5The Veterans Memorial Bridge carries US 22 from Weirton into Ohio. (from West Virginia)
Image 6A slave woman tending to a white baby in West Virginia, 1865 (from West Virginia)
Image 7Votes by county in the October 1861 statehood vote (from West Virginia)
Image 81751 Fry-Jefferson map showing early ferries and established colonial borders before the French And Indian War (from History of West Virginia)
Image 91715 Nicolas de Fer map showing the Native American areas known as Tionontatacaga and Calicuas (from History of West Virginia)
Image 10Escaped slave broadside, Hampshire County, West Virginia, 1845 (from West Virginia)
Image 11Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, changed hands a dozen times during the American Civil War. (from History of West Virginia)
Image 12Harpers 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 13Counties (in blue) approving Virginia's secession from the U.S in order to join the Confederacy. (from History of West Virginia)
Image 14West Virginia is situated in the Appalachian Mountains, bounded by Allegheny Mountains, Ohio and Big Sandy rivers, and the Cumberland Mountains. (from West Virginia)
Image 15Poster by Albert M. Bender, produced by the Illinois WPA Art Project Chicago in 1935 for the CCC (from History of West Virginia)
Image 16Saturday afternoon street scene, Welch, McDowell County, 1946 (from West Virginia)
Image 17Child laborer photographed by Lewis Hine in the coal mines of West Virginia, 1908 (from West Virginia)
Image 18The Linsly Institute building in Wheeling, West Virginia 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 19The iconic New River Gorge Bridge near Fayetteville (from West Virginia)
Image 20Shaded relief map of the Cumberland Plateau and Ridge-and-valley Appalachians (from West Virginia)
Image 21West Virginia Independence Hall, site of the Wheeling Convention (from History of West Virginia)
Image 22The West Virginia State Capitol in Charleston is home to the West Virginia Legislature. (from West Virginia)
Image 23Bluefield, a major center for coal mining, in 2014 (from West Virginia)
Image 24A view of the New River in West Virginia, the world's third-oldest river geologically (from History of West Virginia)
Image 25Bituminous coal seam in southwestern West Virginia (from West Virginia)
Image 26Thomas Lee, the first manager of the Ohio Company of Virginia (from West Virginia)
Image 27Turnout by county in the October 24, 1861, West Virginia statehood vote (from History of West Virginia)

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

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Non-Hispanic White

70–80%

80–90%

90%+

(from West Virginia)

Image 29Map 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 30Packed circles diagram showing estimates of the ethnic origins of people in West Virginia in 2021. (from West Virginia)
Image 31West Virginia population density 2020 (from West Virginia)
Image 32Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit (from West Virginia)
Image 33Seneca Rocks, Pendleton County (from West Virginia)
Image 34John S. Carlile, a leader during the First Wheeling Convention (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 the Vulcan Bridge, a bridge in Vulcan, West Virginia, was constructed after the mayor requested financial aid from the Soviet Union?
... 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 Babydog is "a fixture in West Virginia politics"?

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^ "Biggest US Cities By Population - West Virginia - 2018 Population". Biggest US Cities. March 4, 2020. Retrieved March 4, 2020.

[1] "Biggest US Cities By Population - West Virginia - 2018 Population". Biggest US Cities. March 4, 2020. Retrieved March 4, 2020.

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