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Monongah is a town in Marion County, West Virginia, USA, situated where Booths Creek flows into the West Fork River. The population was 1,044 at the 2010 census. Monongah was chartered in 1891 based on Chapter 47 of West Virginia code. Its name is derived from the nearby Monongahela River. ==History== The Adena and Hopewell peoples dwelt in what is now northern West Virginia 1,500 - 2,000+ years ago. By the time of the early European traders and settlers, the native population is thought to have been nil, decimated by the Beaver Wars. Monongah was known as Briar Town and was part of the Grant Magisterial District in 1886.〔Marion and Monongahela Counties, 1886: D J Lake Company, 1886 http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/171363/Grant+Magisterial+District+++Marion+County++Briar+Town++Eldora+P+O+++Bootesville++Worthington/Marion+and+Monongalia+Counties+1886/West+Virginia/〕〔Marion County GenWeb http://www.wvgenweb.org/marion/towns/monongahhis.html〕 It was later known as Camdensburg, named after Johnson N. Camden, United States Senator from West Virginia (1881 - 1887).〔 The Protestant Episcopal Church at Camdensburg described Camdensburg in 1889 as "a new mining and coking town which promises to be a place of some importance in a few years." 〔Thirteenth Annual Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of West Virginia, held in St John's Church, Charleston, June 4, 5, 6 and 7, 1890, Appendix B, pg 104 (628/672) http://www.wvgenweb.org/marion/towns/monongahhis.html〕 Monongah was chartered in 1891 under Chapter 47 of West Virginia code, Of Cities, Towns, and Villages, Incorporation of Without Special Charter; Amending Charter Where Population Less Than Two Thousand.〔West Virginia Legislative Hand Book and Manual and Official Register, 1919, Charleston, Tribune Printing Co http://books.google.com/books?id=qsk_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA254&lpg=PA254&dq=monongah+1891+circuit+court+established&source=bl&ots=QnUEeWt9GI&sig=b8kvND1g_S4ItVFAZwuQw8KVXL8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=T0GeU_O1KI_hsATEz4HICw&ved=0CEUQ6AEwCTgK#v=onepage&q&f=false〕〔Hogg's West Virginia Code, Annotated, 1918, Charles Edgar Hoag http://books.google.com/books?id=fmtKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA431&lpg=PA431&dq=west+virginia+code+chapter+47+chartered+municipality&source=bl&ots=SfxlSfBxgE&sig=JcoPT4lvi09yJkzuLxhxSq03nZY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=SUSeU5SVKc22sAS2wYCwBw&ved=0CFIQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=west%20virginia%20code%20chapter%2047%20chartered%20municipality&f=false〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Monongah, West Virginia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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