Statistical gazetteer of the state of Virginia : embracing important topographical and historical information from recent and original sources, together with the results of the last census population, in most cases, to 1854 . iiili^iij^ ,v. GR GAZETTEER OF VIRGINIA. 249 creeks enter the river here, leaving an interval of a mile inwidth, on which the village is built. It is divided into two dis-tinct villages, of nearly equal size, namely, Elizabethtown andMoundsville, the former of which is the seat of justice. Thename of the post office is Grave creek. The town contains aclassical academy, tw


Statistical gazetteer of the state of Virginia : embracing important topographical and historical information from recent and original sources, together with the results of the last census population, in most cases, to 1854 . iiili^iij^ ,v. GR GAZETTEER OF VIRGINIA. 249 creeks enter the river here, leaving an interval of a mile inwidth, on which the village is built. It is divided into two dis-tinct villages, of nearly equal size, namely, Elizabethtown andMoundsville, the former of which is the seat of justice. Thename of the post office is Grave creek. The town contains aclassical academy, two steam flouring mills, and about 1200 in-habitants. Moundsville derives its name from the mammothmound, in the vicinity, one of the largest in the United States* Gravel Sprixg, a post office of Frederick county, Virginia. Graves Mills, a post office of Washington county, Virginia,108 miles IST. W. from Eichmond. Graysox, a county in the S. S. W. part of Virginia, borderingon North Carolina, contains 340 square miles. It is drained by theKanawha river. The Iron Mountain extends along the N. and the Blue Ridge along the S. E. The county containsiron ore, and is amply supplied with water power. Indian cornoats, hay and live s


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