Lanterna Rally

Author: Alvaro Franklin Gibbens

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-14

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9780332787923

Excerpt from Wood County Formation: A Century of Progress; History of Divisions, Courts, Buildings, Past and Present, and Engravings of the Same Such a tide of population from Pennsylvania, Maryland, and the Potomac river counties of Virginia, through Harpers Ferry gap, had poured into this section, that in 1738 the legislature of the Colony restricted the county of Orange to that portion of her territory east of the Blue Ridge, and created two new ones out of the land beyond, named in honor of the Prince and Princess of Wales. Frederick comprised the northern part of the great inter montaine valley with Winchester as its seat, and Augusta the southern section and all the remainder of Virginia west, with Staunton as its seat of Government. In 1754 Hampshire was formed from the trans-shenan doah portions of Frederick and Augusta counties. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.