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  Virginia - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Kentucky and West Virginia were part of Virginia at the time of the founding of the United States, but the former was admitted to the Union as a separate state in 1792 while the latter broke away from Virginia during the American Civil War.
Virginia was given its nickname "The Old Dominion" by King Charles II of England at the time of the Restoration for remaining loyal to the crown during the English Civil War.
Virginia is bordered by West Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia (across the Potomac River) to the north, by Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, by North Carolina and Tennessee to the south, and by Kentucky and West Virginia to the west.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: West Virginia
West Virginia geographically belongs to the Mississippi Valley, and the principal rivers, which are the Sandy, Guyandotte, Big and Little Kanawha, and the Monongahela, with its tributaries the Youghiogheny and Cheat, are tributary to the Ohio River, which flows for 300 miles along this state.
West Virginia is richly invested with timber, comprising many varieties of the oak and fir, the hemlock, cedar, laurel, tulip-tree, the fl and white walnuts, hickory, beech, sycamore, elm, maple, birch, white and mountain ash, besides the wild-fruit varieties peculiar to the surrounding states.
West Virginia was organized and became a state during the early years of the Civil War, and was composed of the western and northern counties of the State of Virginia.
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 West Virginia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The legislature is bicameral, consisting of the House of Delegates and a Senate.
It is bordered by Pennsylvania and Maryland to the north, by Ohio and Kentucky to the west, and by Virginia to the east.
The population of West Virginia as of 2003 was 1,810,354.
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 A West Virginia Chronology
Daniel Boone is elected as a delegate to the Virginia Assembly.
Virginia's ordinance for secession is ratified, but a large majority of voters in the western counties voice their opposition.
The West Virginia Statehood bill is passed by the Senate, changing the slavery provision of the West Virginia Constitution to allow for the gradual emancipation of slavery.
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 West Virginia
West Virginia's early history from 1609 until 1863 is largely shared with Virginia, of which it was a part until Virginia seceded from the Union in 1861.
West Virginia University - West Virginia University, mainly at Morgantown; coeducational; land-grant and state supported; est.
West Virginia - West Virginia, E central state of the United States.
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