Kevinstat
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« on: May 24, 2014, 10:35:33 PM » |
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« edited: July 03, 2014, 08:05:28 PM by Kevinstat »
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Does anyone else find it interesting that the area where the Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia boundaries meet makes it look like Kentucky separated from Virginia after West Virginia did? That point into Virginia (as it would have been before West Virginia became a state) made an obvious point for one end of the new boundary that would be created by the separation of WV from its mother commonwealth. The southernmost point of Maryland's western boundary (and perhaps Maryland's westernmost point, as that boundary looks like a very steep /) would have been another (and the short boundary between the present Grant and Preston counties has its northern boundary at that point or close to it), but that would have left the arsenal at Harper's Ferry in Virginia which could have made future rebellions easier in the mindset at the time (the Civil War was going on at the time West Virginia became a state). It also might be that there wasn't an internal Virginia county boundary ending at that point at the time like there presumably was at the Kentucky point.
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