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West Virginia:
The West Virginia area was originally inhabited by the Adena Culture (or Mound Builders), that lived here for thousands of years. Remnants of their fascinating culture remain today.

European settlers began arriving in significant numbers in the mid-1700s, causing numerous conflicts among the French, British and local Indians - reaching its destructive peak during the French and Indian War.

Opposition to southern slavery here was made famous by the raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, led by the abolitionist John Brown.

West Virginia's refusal to secede from the Union during America's Civil War gave it a unique place in history, and in fact, it became the only U.S. State (or land) taken from another (Virginia) without its permission.

Famed for coal mining, glass-making and mineral springs, the beautiful State of West Virginia is home to rugged, green mountains and very few stretches of flat land.

West-Virginia

The current version of the West Virginia flag was officially adopted on March 7, 1929.

It features the original state seal (centered) on a white field surrounded by a dark blue border.

That seal features a farmer and a mountaineer standing near a boulder upon which appears its date of the admission into the Union.

Two rifles lie crossed in front of the boulder, draped with a Liberty Cap. The seal is surrounded by a wreath of Rhododendron maximum, the state's official flower.

Official name: West Virginia
Capital: Charleston
Statehood: June 20, 1863 the 35th state
State nickname: The Mountain State
Name for residents: West Virginians
State motto: Montani semper liber
(Mountaineers are always free)
Abbreviation: WV

West Virginia's Historical Event's:

about 8000-6000 bc Paleo-Indian hunter-gatherers roam the state.
about 500 bc-ad 800 Mound Builders live in the state.
1669 John Lederer explores the Blue Ridge Mountains near Harpers Ferry.
1671 Thomas Batts and Robert Fallam find a river flowing into the Ohio and give England its claim to the Ohio Valley.
1730-1731 According to tradition, Morgan Morgan establishes the first permanent settlement in the state at Bunker Hill.
1742 Coal is discovered on the Coal River.
1774 Lord Dunmore's War is waged by Governor Dunmore against the Shawnee.
1794 Wars with Native Americans are ended by the decisive Battle of Fallen Timbers.
1817 Industrial use of coal begins in the Kanawha Valley.
1818 Wheeling becomes the western terminus for the National, or Cumberland, Road.
1853 Wheeling becomes the western terminus of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
1859 Abolitionist John Brown raids Harpers Ferry, further polarizing a nation already split on the slavery question.
1860 The first commercial oil well in western Virginia begins production.
1861 Western Virginians refuse to secede from the Union, as is decided by the Virginia legislature; the Restored Government is established.
1863 West Virginia becomes the 35th state of the Union (June 20).
1872 The present constitution is adopted.
1885 Charleston becomes the permanent capital.
1915 The West Virginia-Virginia debt issue is settled by the United States Supreme Court.
1921 Severe labor unrest in the coal industry results in the Battle of Blair Mountain.
1954 The West Virginia Turnpike opens, connecting Charleston with Princeton.
1960 John F. Kennedy wins the West Virginia primary on his way to becoming the first Catholic U.S. president.
1972 The collapse of a dam on Buffalo Creek causes the worst flood in the state's history.
1990 Former Governor Arch A. Moore, Jr., and members of his administration receive prison sentences for corruption in office.

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