Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Wood County Formation: A Century of Progress; History of Divisions, Courts, Buildings, Past and Present, and Engravings of the Same
Such a tide of population from Pennsylvania, Maryland, and the Potomac river counties of Virginia, through Harpers Ferry gap, had poured into this section, that in 1738 the legislature of the Colony restricted the county of Orange to that portion of her territory east of the Blue Ridge, and created two new ones out of the land beyond, named in honor of the Prince and Princess of Wales. Frederick comprised the northern part of the great inter montaine valley with Winchester as its seat, and Augusta the southern section and all the remainder of Virginia west, with Staunton as its seat of Government.
In 1754 Hampshire was formed from the trans-shenan doah portions of Frederick and Augusta counties.
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