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  2. West Virginia - Wikipedia

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    West Virginia is a state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. [note 2] 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 ...

  3. Melungeon - Wikipedia

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    Melungeons ( / məˈlʌndʒənz / mə-LUN-jənz) (sometimes also spelled Malungeans, Melangeans, Melungeans, Melungins [3]) are a group of people from Appalachia who predominantly descend from northern or central Europeans and sub-Saharan Africans. Their ancestors were likely brought to Virginia as indentured servants in the mid-17th century.

  4. History of West Virginia - Wikipedia

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    The history of West Virginia stems from the 1861 Wheeling Convention, which was an assembly of northwestern Virginian Southern Unionists, who aimed to repeal the Ordinance of Secession that Virginia made during the American Civil War (1861–1865). It became one of two American states that formed during the American Civil War – the other ...

  5. Shenandoah Germans - Wikipedia

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    Map of the Shenandoah Valley. The Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia and parts of West Virginia is home to a long-established German-American community dating to the 17th century. The earliest German settlers to Shenandoah, sometimes known as the Shenandoah Deitsch or the Valley Dutch, were Pennsylvania Dutch migrants who traveled from ...

  6. Chestnut Ridge people - Wikipedia

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    Chestnut Ridge people. The Chestnut Ridge people (CRP) are a mixed-race community concentrated in an area northeast of Philippi, Barbour County in north-central West Virginia, with smaller related communities in the adjacent counties of Harrison and Taylor. They are often referred to as "Mayles" (from the most common surname — Mayle or Male ...

  7. Morgan Morgan - Wikipedia

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    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]

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