Logan County, West Virginia          Early History of Logan County

The Early History of Logan County was submitted by Sandy Spradling,
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Logan County:

Logan County named for the celebrated Mingo chief, was cut off of Kanawha,
Giles, Tazewell and Cabell, in 1824.  Its original area was 2,390 square
miles; its population 3,680 of whom 245 were tax-payers.  In 1840 its
population was 4,309, and in 1870, 5,124.  It is one of the largest and
roughest counties in that portion of Virginia which is now embraced in the
new State of West Virginia.  The soil, though broken, produces well, and is
well adapted to grazing.  Its surface is literally covered with timber, and
beneath it lie, undisturbed, inexhaustible beds of coal and iron.

Source:  History of Kanawha County, George W. Atkinson, 1876, p. 21