Calhoun County, West Virginia          Early History of Calhoun County

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CALHOUN COUNTY

Is one of the offshoots of Kanawha, and was organized by Act of Legislature
in 1855.  It is quite small in area; is rough and mountainous; is covered
with a large variety of superior timber, and is also well stocked with coal
and other minerals. Grantsville, on the Little Kanawha river, which passes
through it in a westerly direction, is the seat of government. The lumber
interests engage the most of the business men of the county. The timber is
floated out upon the bosom of the Little Kanawha river, and finds a market at
Parkersburg, on the Ohio.

History of Kanawha County, George W. Atkinson, 1876, p. 30