Fayette County, West Virginia          Early History of Fayette County

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FAYETTE COUNTY

Was created in 1831, from Kanawba, Nicholas, Greenbrier and Logan. Its
greatest length is perhaps forty miles, and its greatest width thirty miles.
The New and Kanawha rivers run westward through its entire length.  It is a
mountainous county, but back from the rivers there is a considerable quantity
of table land that is arable, and which reminds one very much of the rolling
prairies of the far West.  On the whole, it would maintain a fair rank as a
stock-raising county.  Its population in 1840 was 3,924, and in 1870, 6,647.

Source:  The History of Kanawha County, George W. Atkinson, 1876, p. 22