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1 of 8 One hundred seventy-four men died on April 28, 1914 during an explosion at the Eccles No. 5 Mine in Raleigh County. Nine additional miners died of injuries and afterdamp while working in the No. 6 Mine during the explosion. Watt Powell Park opened in Charleston on April 28, 1948. The personal library of Francis Harrison Pierpont, governor of the Restored Government of Virginia, was among the sites destroyed by Confederate forces in Fairmont on April 29, 1863. WVU ...

The sectional issues that culminated in the dismemberment of Virginia emerged during the revolutionary period. The Virginia Constitution of 1776 hampered western political participation by placing property-holding qualifications on voters and officeholders and allowing for disproportionate eastern political representation. Confronted with a tax code that benefited slaveholders and large landowners and eastern reluctance to dedicate taxes for western internal improvements, western Virginians cla...