Taylor County WV Archives History - Books .....Taylor County History From Howe's Historical Collections Of Virginia 1845 1845
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Book Title: Historical Collections Of Virginia By Henry Howe

Taylor County. P. 487.

Taylor was formed Jan 19th, 1844, from Harrison, Barbour, and Marion, and named
from John Taylor of Caroline. Williamsport, sometimes called Prunty Town, is the
county-seat. It is situated near the ferry across Tygart's Valley River, 209
miles northwesterly from Richmond, and 18 NE by E from Clarksburg. It contains 3
stores, 1 Methodist and 1 Baptist church, and about 30 dwellings. Rector
College, and institution founded in 1839, is located here; it had, by the census
of 1840, 110 students. 

As this county has been so recently formed, we are unable to give its statistics
or geographical boundaries, and the counties from which it has been formed have,
in those particulars, been described in this volume as though it had no existence.

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