e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org. Dec. 27, 1797: The county seat of Ohio County was moved from West Liberty to Wheeling. Dec. 28, 1879: Brigadier General Billy Mitchell was born in France. As chief of the Army Air Force, Mitchell ordered aircraft of the 88 th Squadron to perform reconnaissance during the 1921 Miners’ March on Logan. Dec. 28, 1978: The last trains ran on the Greenbrier Division, a branch line of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. Unlike most C&O branches in West Virginia, the Greenbrier Division was not a coal-hauling line but served the valley’s timber industry. Dec. 29, 1861: Confederate soldiers burned most of downtown Sutton. The town slowly rebuilt but remained small until the local timber industry boomed in the 1890 to 1920 period.