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Albemarle County is a county located in the Piedmont region of the Commonwealth of Virginia.Its county seat is Charlottesville, which is an independent city and enclave entirely surrounded by the county. [2]
Upshur County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 23,816. [2] Its county seat is Buckhannon. [3] The county was formed in 1851 from Randolph, Barbour, and Lewis counties and named for Abel Parker Upshur, a distinguished statesman and jurist of Virginia. [4]
The Cherokee colonized the area including Wise from the Xualae between 1671 and 1685. It was later contested by the Six Nations and the Shawnee.Cherokee and Shawnee hunting parties fought a protracted battle at the headwaters of the Clinch River for two days in the summer of 1786, a victory for the Cherokee although losses were heavy on both sides.
Stafford County is approximately 40 miles south of Washington D.C. Stafford County is the start of the I-95 Express lanes which start in the center part of the county and go to Washington D.C, the I-95 Express Lanes are currently being extended to the Southern tip of the county.
By the middle of the 1970s, [6] Culpeper was the last county in Virginia to desegregate its public schools. In 2018 Culpeper County Public Schools [7] has six elementary, two middle schools and two high schools. In 1935 the Rotary Club of Culpeper began a college loan fund, which in 1966 became a four-year scholarship based on academic achievement.
A coal miners house and family, 1946. McDowell County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 19,111. [2] Its county seat is Welch. [3]
With the division of West Virginia from Virginia during the American Civil War, the Western District of Virginia became the District of West Virginia, and those parts of the Western District that were not part of West Virginia were combined with the Eastern District to form again a single District of Virginia on June 11, 1864, by 13 Stat. 124. [2]
Grayson County is a county located in the southwestern part of the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census , the population was 15,333. [ 1 ] Its county seat is Independence . [ 2 ]