Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 18:36:45 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: West Virginia
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

At 05:10 PM 04/03/2002 -0500, you wrote:

>On Wed, 03 Apr 2002 11:08:52 -0500 "Michael Walsh"
><MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> writes:
> > U.S. Constitution, Article IV, Section 3:
> > "New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union; but no
> > new states shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any
> > other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more
> > states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of
>the
> > states concerned as well as of the Congress."
> >
> > So . . . West Virginia?  Ok, it was wartime and the legislature of
> > Virginia really wasn't in a position to object . . .
> >
> > mjw
>
>In a nutshell.  The counties west of the Alleghany ridge had their
>markets to the west, and had long felt separate from the rest of VA,
>including the attitudes toward slavery.  After VA passed the ordinance of
>secession in 1861, unionists met at Wheeling and formed the state of
>'Kanawha'.  Congress admitted the state as West Virginia on June 20,
>1863.

And I grew up on the shores of the Kanawha River in Kanawha County WV.

BTW- Kanawha is pronounced Kuhnaw  where the vowels are sounded  Kuh as in
uh and naw as in haw.

>So we might have had a state named Kanawha.  Other state names which did
>not make it include Westmoreland (part of PA), and Franklin (which ended
>up as Kentucky, I think).  But Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
>merits a lame' whoopie cushion.
>
>Ron Kean

Candy