Putnam County, West Virginia          Early History of Putnam County

    The Early History of Putnam County was submitted by Sandy Spradling,
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Putnam County

Lies on both sides of the Great Kanawha river, and was taken off of Kanawha,
Mason, Cabell and Jackson counties by Legislative enactment and in May, 1848,
the county was duly organized.  It is a county of considerable solid wealth
in agriculture, minerals, and timber.  Buffalo, on the Great Kanawha river,
twenty-two miles from its mouth, is its principal town.  Winfield, ten miles
above Buffalo, is the county-seat, and, like the latter, is a prosperous and
progressive village.

The following clipping from the Kanawha Banner, of May 28th, 1848, will be of
especial interest in this connection:

"The new county, Putnam, was duly organized on Monday of last week.  Ten
Justices of the Peace were present.  Quite a collection of the citizens were
also present. The court was held at the house of Mr. T. P. Brown, on the left
bank of the Kanawha, opposite Red House.

"The following officers of the county were elected  H. H. Forbes, Clerk; G. W
Summers, Attorney for the Commonwealth  Daniel B. Washington, Commissioner of
the Revenue; S. T. Wyatt, County Surveyor.  Matthew D. Brown was recommended
to the Executive to be commissioned as High Sheriff, and Addison Wolfe,
Coroner."

History of Kanawha County, George W. Atkinson, 1876, p. 29-30