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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 landlocked state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. 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 1,793,716 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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Padden in South Side Park, Chicago in 1905

Richard Joseph Padden (September 17, 1870 – October 31, 1922), nicknamed "Brains", was an American professional baseball player, born in Wheeling, West Virginia, who played mainly as a second baseman in Major League Baseball for nine seasons from 1896 to 1905.

After playing a season and a half in the minor leagues, the right-handed infielder began his major league career for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He played three seasons in Pittsburgh, from 1896 to 1898, before playing one season for the Washington Senators in 1899. He returned to the minor leagues for the 1900 season, where he was the player-manager for the Chicago White Sox, then a minor league team. When the Chicago club entered the American League, a major league, the following season, he moved on to play one season for the St. Louis Cardinals, before becoming Captain of the St. Louis Browns from 1902 and 1905. In total, Padden played in 874 games, and collected 814 hits in 3545 at bats, for a lifetime batting average of .258. He finished in the league's top-ten finishers in being hit by pitches six times, including a league-leading 18 in 1904. (Full article...)

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Kanawha was a proposed name for the 39 counties which later became the main body of the U.S. state of West Virginia, formed on October 24, 1861. It consisted of most of the far northwestern counties of Virginia, which voted to secede from the state after Virginia joined the Confederate States of America at the beginning of the American Civil War on April 17, 1861. (Full article...)

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Image 1The West Virginia State Capitol in Charleston is home to the West Virginia Legislature. (from West Virginia)
Image 2Spruce Knob is the highest point in West Virginia and the Allegheny Mountains. (from West Virginia)
Image 3A toll plaza on the West Virginia Turnpike (from West Virginia)
Image 4Saturday afternoon street scene, Welch, McDowell County, 1946 (from West Virginia)
Image 5Shaded relief map of the Cumberland Plateau and Ridge-and-valley Appalachians (from West Virginia)
Image 6Historical coat of arms of West Virginia (illustrated, 1876) (from West Virginia)
Image 7West Virginia is situated in the Appalachian Mountains, bounded by Allegheny Mountains, Ohio and Big Sandy rivers, and the Cumberland Mountains. (from West Virginia)
Image 8The 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)
Image 9Köppen climate types of West Virginia, using 1991-2020 climate normals (from West Virginia)
Image 10Turnout by county in the October 24, 1861, West Virginia statehood vote (from History of West Virginia)
Image 11Child labor in the coal mines of West Virginia, 1908 (from 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%+

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Image 13Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, changed hands a dozen times during the American Civil War. (from History of West Virginia)
Image 14Thomas Lee, the first manager of the Ohio Company of Virginia (from History of West Virginia)
Image 15Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight, a statue on the grounds of the West Virginia State Capitol (from West Virginia)
Image 16West Virginia Independence Hall, site of the Wheeling Convention (from History of West Virginia)
Image 17State of Westylvania proposed to the U.S. Congress (from West Virginia)
Image 18John S. Carlile, a leader during the First Wheeling Convention (from History of West Virginia)
Image 19The iconic New River Gorge Bridge near Fayetteville (from West Virginia)
Image 20Counties (in blue) approving Virginia's secession from the U.S. (from History of West Virginia)
Image 21A slave woman tending to a white baby in West Virginia, 1865 (from West Virginia)
Image 22Harpers 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 23A view of the New River in West Virginia, the world's third-oldest river geologically (from History of West Virginia)
Image 24Votes by county in the October 1861 statehood vote (from West Virginia)
Image 25Escaped slave broadside, Hampshire County, West Virginia, 1845 (from West Virginia)
Image 26From left, Senator Joe Manchin, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Senator Shelley Moore Capito, and Representative David McKinley (2017) (from West Virginia)
Image 271751 Fry-Jefferson map showing early ferries and established colonial borders before the French And Indian War (from History of West Virginia)
Image 28Bituminous coal seam in southwestern West Virginia (from West Virginia)
Image 29Francis H. Pierpont, a leader during the Second Wheeling Convention (from West Virginia)
Image 301715 Nicolas de Fer map showing the Native American areas known as Tionontatacaga and Calicuas (from History of West Virginia)
Image 31Packed circles diagram showing estimates of the ethnic origins of people in West Virginia in 2021. (from West Virginia)
Image 32Thomas Lee, the first manager of the Ohio Company of Virginia (from West Virginia)
Image 33West Virginia population density map (from West Virginia)
Image 34Bluefield, a major center for coal mining, in 2014 (from West Virginia)
Image 35The Veterans Memorial Bridge carries US 22 from Weirton WV into Ohio. (from West Virginia)
Image 36Map 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 37Seneca Rocks, Pendleton County (from West Virginia)

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... 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 after Lew Dickey Sr. broke into the radio business by buying a station in West Virginia, his son would go on to own Cumulus Media?
... 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?
... 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 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 China Folk House Retreat dismantled a Chinese folk house and rebuilt it in West Virginia?

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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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