Gilmer County, West Virginia          Early History of Gilmer County

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GILMER COUNTY

Was silced off of Kanawha, Braxton and Lewis, in 1843, and is a prosperous
and flourishing county.  Its seat of justice, Glenville, is a small town on
the Little Kanawha river, the principal water course which passes through the
county.  It is somewhat of an agricultural county, but the citizens engage
mostly in raising stock.  Their outlet is through Lewis county to Clarksburg,
on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, thence to Baltimore and the East.

History of Kanawha County, George W. Atkinson, 1876, p 29