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| | Upshur County History |
 | | Thomas Walker Gilmer, the Secretary of the Navy and namesake of Gilmer County, was also killed in the explosion. |
 | | The first native settlers in central West Virginia (Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Gilmer, Lewis, Nicholas, Roane, Upshur, and Webster counties) were the Mound Builders, also known as the Adena people. |
 | | Among the new settlers were John and Elizabeth Jackson and their sons, George and Edward Jackson, Thomas Hughes, and John Cutright. |
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