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Braxton County, West Virginia
Braxton County is a county located in the central part of the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 14,523.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/54/54007.html )〕 The county seat is Sutton.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The county was formed in 1836〔http://www.wvculture.org/history/wvcounties.html〕 from parts of Lewis, Kanawha, and Nicholas counties and named for Carter Braxton, a Virginia statesman and signer of the Declaration of Independence.
In 2010, the center of population of West Virginia was located in northern Braxton County.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.census.gov/geo/reference/docs/cenpop2010/CenPop2010_Mean_ST.txt )〕
Important salt works were formerly located at Bulltown and here, in 1772, Captain Bull and his family and friendly Delaware Indians were massacred by frontiersmen.〔The Border Settlers of Northwestern Virginia from 1768 to 1795 1915 The Republican Puublishing Company Hamilton, OH〕 Jesse Hughes helped (Jeremiah Carpenter ) and track and kill the Indians responsible for the Carpenter massacre. Jeremiah was a notable fiddle player who wrote a song Shelvin’ Rock about the experience of escaping to rock shelter.
==Geography==
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (1.1%) is water.
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