Talk:History of West Virginia

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[edit] Page length and History

  • Most of the History section in the main West Virginia article is long, long block of text taken mainly from the PD Encyc. Brit. Now that this is the collab of the fortnight, what do we think of blending that section with this separate History of West Virginia, eliminating redundancies and highly detailed specifics that could instead go into separate sections. It just seems that the broad outline of West Virginia history belongs here, and an expanded piece on something like, say, the West Virginia Mine Wars would be a separate article. I'll certainly pitch in. — Tenebrae 15:56, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Berkeley and Jefferson

There are two conflicting accounts of when these counties joined the state, one under the legality heading (which says they were part of WV when it formed, but that was challenged by VA in 1866) and one under the civil war heading (which say they joined WV in 1866). [1] seems to support the first version, but does someone more knowledgable about the area know for sure? Kmusser 13:48, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The line

How was the line between Virginia and West Virginia decided? --NE2 21:43, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

In an nutshell, the border between the states is just the borders between the counties that joined WV and those that did not. As for most of those borders, they were essentially the ridgetops of a series of mountains that were used for the old county boundaries.
There is also a local tounge-in-cheek joke that the survey crew that was to draw the state line had a pet snake. One night the snake got intot heir moonshine whiskey and then slithered through their surveying paint and the line that the snake drew was used for the border (hence the look that the line was "drawn by a drunken snake." youngamerican (ahoy hoy) 12:05, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
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