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City or Town
Containing Unit
Ohio County, VA
Date Type
In Virginia, Prince William County Republicans meet to choose delegates for the state convention in Wheeling Campaigns/Elections
- In Wheeling, the elected West Virginia convention is meeting to write a constitution for the new state Lawmaking/Litigating
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad opens service for the first time in a year Business/Industry
The Virginia Republican State Convention meets in Wheeling, Virginia Campaigns/Elections
The Wheeling Convention of the western Virginia counties passes an ordinance setting up a new state Lawmaking/Litigating
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New York Times, “Fatal Railroad Accident,” March 10, 1854
New York Times, “Fugitive Slave Case in Zanesville, Ohio,” May 4, 1859
Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Republicanism in Virginia,” June 7, 1859
Carlisle (PA) American Volunteer, “Negro Insurrection!," October 20, 1859
New York Times, “The Fears of Mr. Wigfall,” July 17, 1860
Cleveland (OH) Herald, “Attack on the Wide Awakes of Wheeling, Va.,” October 17, 1860
Cleveland (OH) Herald, “The Fugitive Case,” January 24, 1861
New York Times, “A Halter with Two Nooses,” May 20, 1861
Brigadier-General Henry Lockwood, To the People of Accomac and Northampton Counties of Virginia, November 23, 1861
Entry by Edward Bates, August 4, 1864
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