Cabell County/Wayne County
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two-bit Joe
N 38° 24.381 W 082° 30.031
17S E 368985 N 4251967
Cabell County/Wayne County Line
Waymark Code: WMR1Z
Location: West Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 09/21/2006
Views: 29
Formed, 1809, from Kanawha. Originally included several of the present counties of West Virginia. Named for William H. Cabell, Virginia governor, 1805-08. Big Sandy River was the western end of the James River and Kanawha Turnpike.
Formed in 1842 from Cabell. Named for General Anthony Wayne, whose victory over the western Indians in 1794 at Fallen Timbers broke the Indian confederacy and removed the menace of the red man from western Virginia.
Marker Title: Cabell County/Wayne County
Marker Location: Huntington, US 60 West
County or Independent City: Cabell/Wayne
Marker Number: Not listed
Web Site: Not listed
Marker Program Sponsor: Not listed
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