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Book Title: Historical Collections Of Virginia By Henry Howe, 1845

Braxton County, p. 193

Braxton was formed in 1836, from Lewis, Kanawha, and Nicholas, and named from
Carter Braxton, one of the signers of the Declaration of American Independence:
it is about 45 miles long, with a mean width of 20 miles. It is watered by Elk
and Little Kanawha Rivers, and their branches. The country is rough, but well
watered, and fertile. Pop. 1840, white 2,509: slaves 64 free col'd. 2; total 2,575.

Sutton, the county-seat, on Elk River, 289 miles W of Richmond, is a small
village; the only public buildings being those belonging to the county. The
locality called Bulltown, where there is a post-office, was so named from the
fact that about sixty years since, it was the residence of a small tribe of
Indians, the name of whose chief was Captain Bull.

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