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Camp Dawson was established on May 7, 1909, when the West Virginia Legislature authorized the purchase of 196.5 acres (0.795 km 2) of land on Dunkard Bottom along the Cheat River. The camp was named in honor of William M. O. Dawson, a native of Preston County, who had just left office as Governor of West Virginia in 1908.
Coordinates: 38.34811°N 81.6294°W. The Clay Center. The Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences of West Virginia in Charleston, West Virginia, US is a 240,000-square-foot (22,000 m 2) facility dedicated to promoting performing arts, visual arts, and the sciences. All three being housed under one roof makes the Clay Center one of the few of its ...
West Virginia National Guardsmen clearing flood debris from the side of a highway at Hanover, WV, May 29, 2009 Troops of the WVARNG Quick Reaction Force training in Washington, D.C. just prior to the 2009 presidential inauguration. The West Virginia Army National Guard (WVARNG) is the United States Army component of the West Virginia National ...
The West Virginia Air National Guard is headquartered in Charleston, and its commander is Brigadier General David V. Cochran. Under the "Total Force" concept, West Virginia Air National Guard units are considered to be Air Reserve Components of the United States Air Force (USAF). West Virginia ANG units are trained and equipped by the Air Force ...
West Virginia was officially admitted as a U.S. state on June 20, 1863. The area that comprises West Virginia was originally part of the British Virginia Colony (1607–1776) and the western part of the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia (1776–1788), and state of Virginia (1788–1863). Western Virginia became sharply divided over the issue of ...
The West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation is an agency of the U.S. state of West Virginia within the state Department of Homeland Security that operates the state's prisons, jails and juvenile detention facilities. The agency has its headquarters in the state's capital of Charleston. [ 1]
Clay, West Virginia. Location of Clay in Clay County, West Virginia. / 38.46278°N 81.08000°W / 38.46278; -81.08000. Clay is a town in and the county seat of Clay County, West Virginia, United States. [ 5] The population was 399 at the 2020 census. [ 2] It is the only incorporated town in Clay County.
The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. [1] West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. [2]