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Logan county was created by act of
Assembly, passed January 12, 1824, from parts of Giles,
Tazewell, Cabell and Kanawha, and derived its name from Logan,
the famous Mingo chieftain.
The original boundaries were: "Beginning at the
junction of the White Oak mountain and New river, proceeding
with the meanderings thereof until it meets the line of
Kanawha county; thence with the lines thereof taking the
dividing ridge between the Big and Little Cole rivers, until
it comes on a line with the head of Rock creek; thence down
the same to its mouth; thence crossing Little Cole, proceeding
with the dividing ridge between Turtle and Horse creek to the
head of Ugly creek; thence down the same to its mouth,
crossing the Guyandotte, in a straight line to the mouth of
Narrowbone creek; thence up the Tug Fork of Big Sandy river to
the mouth of Elkhorn creek; thence proceeding with the
dividing ridge between Elkhorn creek and the Tug Fork, and so
on a line with the Flat Top mountains to the
beginning."
The commissioners named in the act to
locate the seat of justice for the county, were William
Buffington, of Cabell; William Thompson, Jr., of Tazewell;
Charles Hale, of Giles; Samuel Shrewsbury, of Kanawha, and
Conrad Peters and John Taylor, of Montgomery. They performed
the work, and thevillage of
Lawnsville, or Logan
Court House, was laid out in
1827.
Tug River forms the
southwestern boundary of the county. The origin of the name is
explained in Part I of this work, under the head of the "Big
Sandy Expedition," which passed through this
county.
[Source: History of West Virginia; By Virgil Anson Lewis;
publ. 1887; Pg. 656;
Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski
Pack]
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