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Craig County~West Virginia
Paint Bank Rd,
VA ,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
37° 36' 23.506236",
-80° 14' 26.556396"
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Virginia State
Historical Marker
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Craig County Nestled in the mountains of Southwest Virginia, Craig County was named for Robert Craig, a 19th-century Virginia congressman. Formed from Botetourt, Roanoke, Giles, and Monroe (in present-day West Virginia) Counties in 1851, it was enlarged with several subsequent additions from neighboring counties. The secluded, mountainous New Castle community, the county seat, features one of the commonwealth's antebellum court complexes, including a porticoed courthouse built in 1851. Craig Healing Springs, a collection of well-preserved early-20th-century resort buildings representative of the architecture of Virginia's more modest mountain spas, is located here. West VirginiaDescribing the contrast between both the “placid and delightful” Shenandoah and the “wild and tremendous” mountains in western Virginia, now West Virginia, Jefferson wrote in his Notes on the State of Virginia, “This scene is worth a voyage across the Atlantic.” According to tradition, the first European pioneer to settle here was Morgan Morgan, a Welshman who immigrated to Mill Creek and acquired his land in Nov. 1730; German immigrants, however, were probably in the Shephardstown area in 1727. In 1861, many counties in western Virginia opposed secession. On 20 June 1863 Congress admitted fifty of them to the Union as the new state of West Virginia.
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