DOUBLE-SHOT: On This Day in West Virginia History, March 7th
March 7, 2023
Mountaineer News
Vintage West Virginia
Tucker County was formed from Randolph County and named for Henry St. George Tucker Sr., a Virginia soldier, statesman and jurist on March 7, 1856.
Also on this day in West Virginia history, a decade later:
On March 7, 1866, the U. S. Congress recognized and consented to the transfer of Berkeley and Jefferson counties from Virginia to West Virginia.
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