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New Martinsville
 
 
Population 2010 Census: 5,366 
Median Age: 46.5 years
Courthouse: Completed 1901 
Architect: W. Chamberlain & Company  
  
 
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Formed: 1846 
Named: For Lewis Wetzel, famous frontier character and Indian fighter 
County Seat: New Martinsville 
Land in Square Miles: 358.06 
Population 2010 Census: 16,583 
Persons per Square Mile 2010: 46.3
Primary Sources Online 
Death of John Jennings, 1873 
Wetzel Tribune fight, 1912 
Filming Stage Struck, 1925 
1960 Presidential Campaign in Wetzel County 
 
Civil War 
Mr. Hall of Wetzel, 1861 
Great Excitement at New Martinsville, 1861 
Meeting of the Loyal Citizens of Wetzel County, 1861 
War Meeting in Wetzel County, 1862 
From Wetzel County, 1862 
New State Meeting in Wetzel County, 1863 
Meeting in Wetzel County, 1863 
The Late Expedition To Littleton, 1863 
Fourth of July Celebration, 1863 
Robbery in Burton, 1864 
Draft in Wetzel, 1865 
Wetzel County Union Militia Letters, Folder 1 
Wetzel County Union Militia Letters, Folder 2 
Wetzel County Union Militia Letters, Folder 5 
Wetzel County Union Militia Letters, Folder 8 
Wetzel County Union Militia Letters, Folder 10 
Wetzel County Union Militia Letters, Folder 15 
Wetzel County Union Militia Letters, Folder 16 
Wetzel County Union Militia Letters, Folder 18 
Wetzel County Union Militia Letters, Folder 19 
Wetzel County Union Militia Letters, Folder 27 
 
Photographs 
Photographs of Schools in Wetzel County 
 
Secondary Sources Online 
List of Wetzel County Legislators 
 
West Virginia Veterans Memorial Biographies 
Charles Race Brown Jr 
Friend Elmus Fair 
Kent Francis Miller 
Frank A. Passavant 
George Edward Pyles 
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