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Tucker County, West Virginia
Tucker County is a county located in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 7,141,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/54/54093.html )〕 making it the second-least populous county in West Virginia. Its county seat is Parsons.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The county was created in 1856 from a part of Randolph County, then part of Virginia. In 1871, a small part of Barbour County, was transferred to Tucker County.〔(Tucker County WVGenWeb Page, accessed August 25, 2006. )〕 The county was named after Henry St. George Tucker, Sr., a judge and Congressman from Williamsburg, Virginia.〔(West Virginia Division of Culture and History - Tucker County History web page, accessed August 25, 2006 )〕〔(Origins of West Virginia Place Names web site, accessed August 25, 2006. )〕
==History==
Between 1889 and 1893 a dispute known as the Tucker County Seat War took place between the people in the town of Parsons and that of St. George over the location of the county seat. Although nobody was killed in the "war," the situation came to a climax when a mob of armed men from Parsons marched on St. George and took the county records by force.
The highly profitable Babcock Lumber Company, operating out of Davis, West Virginia from 1907, was responsible for devastating environmental damage to much of surrounding Tucker County, including Canaan Valley, Dolly Sods and the Blackwater Canyon. These areas were clear-cut and the landscape converted into a tinderbox by the residual slashings. By 1910, fires swept over the wasteland, often burning continuously from spring until the first snows. In 1914, with the county virtually denuded of standing trees, the ground burned continually for 6 months. When the fires subsided, thin mineral soil and bare rock were all that remained. Uncontrollable soil erosion and flooding further degraded and depopulated the region, which bears the scars of the conflagration to the present day.〔Brooks, Maurice (1965), ''The Appalachians'' (Series: The Naturalist's America), Illustrated by Lois Darling and Lo Brooks, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, pp 127-128.〕
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