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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Centre of population, (search)
following table shows the movement of the centre of population since 1790: Census Year.North Latitude.West Longitude.Approximate Location by Important Town. 1790 39° 15′ 5″76° 11′ 2″Twenty three miles east of Baltimore, Md. 1800 39° 16′ 1″76° 56′ 5″Eigh-teen miles west of Baltimore, Md. 1810 39° 11′ 5″77° 37′ 2″Forty miles northwest by west of Washington, D. C. 1820 39° 5′ 7″78° 33′ 0″Sixteen miles north of Woodstock, Va. 1830 38° 57′ 9″79° 16′ 9″Nineteen miles west-southwest of Moorefield, W. Va. 1840 39° 2′ 0″81° 18′ 0″Sixteen miles south of Clarkshutrg. W. Va. 1850 38° 59′ 0″81° 19′ 0″Twenty-three miles southleast of Parkersburg, W. Va. 1860 39° 0′ 4″82° 48′ 8″Twent miles south of Chillicothe. O. 1870 39° 12′ 0″83° 35′ 7″Forty-eight miles east by north of Cincinnati, O. 1880 39° 4′ 1″84° 39′ 7″Eitht miles west by south of Cincinnati, O. 1890 39° 11′ 9″85° 32
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Civil War in the United States. (search)
ad, S. C.—2. Gold at New York, 133 1/4 @ 133 7/8.—3. Department of the East created, and General Wool assigned to its command.—4. Confederates defeated at Moorefield, W. Va. The Confederate General Magruder declares the port of Galveston, Tex., opened to the commerce of the world. Clarkesville, Tenn., surrenders to the Union foConfederates defeated.— Feb. 1. The President ordered a draft, on March 10, for 500,000 men, for three years or the war.—4. Colonel Mulligan drove Early out of Moorefield, W. Va. —13. Governor Bramlette, of Kentucky, proclaims protection to slaves from claims by Confederate owners.—22. Michael Hahn elected governor of Louisiana ushing, with fifty-one men, in four boats, destroyed cotton valued at $15,000 at All Saints, N. C.—5. Harry Gilmor's camp broken up and himself captured at Moorefield, W. Va., by Lieutenant-Colonel Whittaker, who marched over mountains and across streams filled with floating ice—140 miles in forty-eight hours—with 30
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), West Virginia, state of (search)
5′ and 40° 37′ N., and long. 77° 4′ and 82° 40′ W. Its general boundary is Pennsylvania and Maryland on the north, Virginia on the east and south, and Kentucky and Ohio on the west. Area, 24,780 square miles in fifty-four counties. Population, 1890, 762,794; 1900, 958,800. Capital, Charleston. Harper's Ferry established as a ferry......1748 Baptist church formed at Opequon, Berkeley county, under charge of Rev. John Gerard, from New England......1754 Battle of the Trough, near Moorefield. A small band of settlers pursuing Indians under Kill Buck are hemmed in between mountain and river, and obliged to retreat with loss of half their number......spring of 1756 Massacre of the garrison of Fort Seybert, 12 miles from site of Franklin, by Indians......May, 1758 Romney laid out and named by Lord Fairfax......November, 1762 Capt. William Arbuckle, the first white man to traverse the Kanawha Valley, reaches the site of Point Pleasant.......1764 English exploring