Western Virginians had attempted to form the state of Westsylvania after the American Revolution. Sectional differences brewed inside Virginia for decades before the Civil War. The Continental Congress ignored the petition along with another plea in to make Westsylvania the 14th state. In , land speculators attempted to establish a colony called Vandalia on much of the same footprint as Westsylvania.
While city dwellers began to receive free mail delivery in , the same was not true for the majority of Americans who lived in rural areas. Farm families needed to travel to distant post offices to retrieve their mail or hire private companies to deliver. For 30 years, West Virginia was home to a top-secret bunker for Congress to use in case of a nuclear war.
During the height of the Cold War in , a top-secret project began to construct a bunker feet beneath The Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs. The bunker opened in and remained on constant alert as a nuclear fallout shelter and emergency relocation facility for the U. Confederate forces occupied a portion of West Virginia during the war, but West Virginian statehood was nonetheless approved in a referendum and a state constitution drawn up.
In April , U. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! In these modest surroundings, they took the historic Tennis Court Oath, On June 20, , Jaws, a film directed by Steven Spielberg that made countless viewers afraid to go into the water, opens in theaters.
The story of a great white shark that terrorizes a New England resort town became an instant blockbuster and the highest-grossing film in movie A skilled practitioner of the frontier art of the tall tale, the mountain man Joe Meek dies on his farm in Oregon. His life was nearly as adventurous as his stories claimed.
Born in Virginia in , Meek was a friendly and relentlessly good-humored young man, but he had too much Union forces under the command of Colonel Benjamin F. Kelley defeat Confederate forces under the command of Colonel George A. It calls for the reorganization of the Virginia government on the grounds that all state government offices have been vacated.
June 20, During the Second Wheeling Convention, Francis Harrison Pierpont is unanimously elected governor of the reorganized Virginia government still loyal to the Union. July 11, The Battle of Rich Mountain takes place. Union forces under the command of Brigadier General William S. Garnett, who is killed in the fighting. August 6—21, During the Second Session of the Second Wheeling Convention, delegates draft and eventually approve the ordinance to form the new U.
October 24, Voters in western Virginia overwhelmingly pass a new state ordinance. It would form the new U. November 26, Delegates convene in Wheeling to draft a state constitution. They name the new state West Virginia, add five additional counties to the state boundary bringing the total to forty-four , and adopt the policy of "negro exclusion," which bans slaves and freedman from residing in the future state.
February 18, Constitutional convention delegates assembled in Wheeling approve a constitution for the new state of West Virginia. April 24, Trans-Alleghany voters overwhelmingly approve a constitution for the new state of West Virginia. May 29, U. Willey of Virginia presents a memorial to the U. Senate to create a new state. The memorial is referred to the Committee on Territories, where John S. Carlile of Virginia drafts the first version of the statehood bill for West Virginia.
June 23, The West Virginia statehood bill is presented to the full U. It includes fifteen additional counties in the Shenandoah Valley, the gradual emancipation of slaves, and a new state constitutional convention. The senators immediately offer revisions to the bill calling for immediate emancipation.
July 1, U. July 14, The West Virginia statehood bill passes through the U. Senate, thanks to the Willey Amendment, named for Waitman T. December 10, The West Virginia statehood bill passes in the U. House of Representatives. December 15, President Abraham Lincoln receives the West Virginia statehood bill and requests that his cabinet review the legislation and make recommendations.
Lincoln's cabinet ultimately splits three to three over the legislation. December 31, President Abraham Lincoln signs the West Virginia statehood bill, despite reservations about its constitutionality. These changes would remove fifteen Shenandoah Valley counties and call for the gradual emancipation of slaves.
These changes remove fifteen Shenandoah Valley counties and call for the gradual emancipation of slaves. March 26, West Virginia voters approve amendments to the new state constitution. April 20, President Abraham Lincoln issues a proclamation that West Virginia will become the thirty-fifth state in the Union on June 20, May 28, West Virginia voters hold state elections and elect Arthur I.
Boreman of Wood County as the first governor of the state of West Virginia. June 20, The newly elected governor, Arthur I. Boreman, in front of Wheeling delegates, proclaims West Virginia the thirty-fifth state.
Only forty-eight of the fifty existing counties become part of the new state. The other two, Berkeley and Jefferson, will be added in Ambler, Charles H.
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