Talk:History of West Virginia

message: * Most of the History section in the main West Virginia article is long, long block of text taken mainly from the PD Encyc. Brit. Now that this is the collab of the fortnight, what do we think of blending that section with this separate History of West Virginia, eliminating redundancies and highly detailed specifics that could instead go into separate sections. It just seems that the broad outline of West Virginia history belongs here, and an expanded piece on something like, say, the West Virginia Mine Wars would be a separate article. I'll certainly pitch in.  — Tenebrae 15:56, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page length and History

message: I read the whole page carefully and I still don't understand what the reason was for the secession from Virginia. Lots of info on HOW, and none on WHY.
Why did West Virginians want to secede from Virginia? 198.49.180.254 20:01, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I don't believe that there are NO sources anywhere which say anything about WHY in addition to the obviously rich trove of references on WHO, WHEN and WHERE. Even the book you indicate - if I read it, am I NOT going to find any WHY in it? You obviously read it. You must know what arguments those men made. I also don't agree that "something [...] is difficult for Wikipedia, which is providing motivation with proof" - except in the case where there is no proof, which I already said I don't believe. 198.49.180.254 23:48, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Literally hundreds of history articles on Wikipedia provide reasons for the events and the motivations of the people involved. You know what? Just because you might not have something that you regard as "proof" enough for a Wikipedia article, a Talk: page is a different matter. You don't owe it to me to "prove" "Why did West Virginians want to secede from Virginia?". Just say so if you have any idea. Don't worry about me undermining your Pulitzer nomination. 198.49.180.254 23:58, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reason for secessionist feelings 

message: [edit] Waterway considerations of US Congress section
A user requested citations.  I provided them.  Somehow, they need put into the citation or notes section at the bottom.  I don't know how to do this.  Can one of you Wiki-experts do this, please?
Or, maybe the examples about steamboat navigation Legislation on West Virginia waters might just need deleted completely.  Really though, I'm not so sure that legislations would be within the scope of West Virginia's early River Traffic, anyway.  I guess it's a judgement call on the part of several thinking people who are major editors on this article.  Please edit and fix my offerings as you better editors see fit, please.
Thanks for your patience, Conaughy (talk)  —Preceding comment was added at 20:00, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Help Please

message: "1862 an enabling act was approved by President Lincoln admitting West Virginia on the condition that a provision for the gradual abolition of slavery be inserted in the Constitution"
The citations provided to support this claim are not satisfactory, I wish that someone would provide an actual copy of the original act. Right now it seems like "common knowledge" that
President Lincoln wanted gradual abolition of salvery in WV. It seems like the sources that are being linked to are using it as such as well. 
There has to be a copy that can be used as a citation. --Yxskaftet (talk) 18:49, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: A copy of the act is a good citation

message: The image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wvmapagain.png contains a map with no key or legend whatsoever. It is impossible to tell which counties were for or against secession from the map, or otherwise what the colors white and cyan mean. In any case, the map below it shows no votes were returned from a number of southern counties, so it cannot be determined which way they voted in any case. The map needs to be improved, or removed and replaced with a better explanatory one.Avman89 (talk) 16:53, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map without legend 

message: New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.Is this mentioned in the article and I just overlooked it? Is there a citation for the Supreme Court's reasoning as to how this applied to the formation of West Virginia that I also overlooked? --Pawyilee (talk) 11:23, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The US Congress recognized a Unionist government of Virginia (the Pierrpont government) and it approved the splitup, so the Constitution was upheld to the letter. Richmond's rebel government of course did not have a voice. Rjensen (talk) 11:54, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Constitution Article. IV. Section. 3. Clause 1:  

message: Any interest in creating a Timeline of West Virginia article? A few other U.S. states have timelines (see :Category:Timelines of states of the United States). Here are some sources:
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-- M2545 (talk) 07:07, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Timeline of West Virginia 

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message: I believe the origins of the word Kanawha are most likely coming from Kanawakhe, the Iroquois word for the St. Lawrence River, which basically translates out to "Rapids here." You just drop the ke/ geh at the end & get Kanawha. I think some tribes actually adopted this word as their term for the Iroquoian peoples as a race, as the Iroquois have always said that their ancestors were a single nation of people who lived in the St. Lawrence River Valley. The evidence is the "Book of Cheraw," which, although not being the most helpful book on history took a confused statement from a mixture of Saponi & Catawba on their own history & how they got there & part of that statement corroborates & sheds light on the Saponi belief that their ancestors came from Ohio. To paraphrase, 'They said they came from somewhere in the vicinity of Lake Erie several hundred years prior to European contact, but were driven from the region by the Caunawagan.' So, I think that would mean that the Kanawha tribe were the same tribe as the Little Mingo/ Tionontatecaga. Bobbotronica (talk) 20:14, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tiny Nitpick in Native History