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Harrisville
 
 
Originally known then as Maley's Settlement; after several changes was named for General Thomas M. Harris 
Population 2010 Census: 1,876 
Median Age: 44.8 years
Courthouse: Completed 1923 
Architect: Holmboe and Pogue 
 
  
 
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Formed:1843 
Named: In honor of Thomas Ritchie, a distinguished journalist of Richmond, VA 
County Seat: Harrisville 
Land in Square Miles: 451.99 
Population 2010 Census: 10,449 
Persons per Square Mile 2010: 23.1
Primary Sources Online 
Thomas Maley Harris 
Mole Hill changed its name to Mountain, 1949 
1960 Presidential Campaign in Ritchie County 
 
Civil War 
The Oil Region of Virginia, 1861 
From Ritchie County, 1861 
The New State in Ritchie County, 1863 
Act regarding division line between the counties of Ritchie and Gilmer, 1863 
Concerning Oil in Ritchie County, 1864 
Biographical Sketch of Samuel R. Dawson 
Biographical Sketch of Daniel Haymond 
Ritchie County Union Militia Letters, Folder 3 
Ritchie County Union Militia Letters, Folder 5 
Ritchie County Union Militia Letters, Folder 7 
Ritchie County Union Militia Letters, Folder 8 
Ritchie County Union Militia Letters, Folder 9 
Ritchie County Union Militia Letters, Folder 10 
Ritchie County Union Militia Letters, Folder 12 
Ritchie County Union Militia Letters, Folder 13 
Ritchie County Union Militia Letters, Folder 16 
Ritchie County Union Militia Letters, Folder 18 
Ritchie County Union Militia Letters, Folder 20 
Ritchie County Union Militia Letters, Folder 21 
Ritchie County Union Militia Letters, Folder 22 
Ritchie County Union Militia Letters, Folder 22A 
Ritchie County Union Militia Letters, Folder 23 
Ritchie County Union Militia Letters, Folder 27 
Ritchie County Union Militia Letters, Folder 29 
Ritchie County Union Militia Letters, Folder 32 
Ritchie County Union Militia Letters, Folder 35 
Ritchie County Union Militia Letters, Folder 37 
Ritchie County Union Militia Letters, Folder 38 
Ritchie County Union Militia Letters, Folder 39 
Ritchie County Union Militia Letters, Folder 40 
Ritchie County Union Militia Letters, Folder 41 
Ritchie County Union Militia Letters, Folder 42 
Ritchie County Union Militia Letters, Folder 43 
Ritchie County Union Militia Letters, Folder 45A 
Ritchie County Union Militia Letters, Folder 46 
Ritchie County Union Militia Letters, Folder 47 
Ritchie County Union Militia Letters, Folder 52 
Ritchie County Union Militia Letters, Folder 53 
 
Photographs 
Photographs of Schools in Ritchie County 
 
Secondary Sources Online 
List of Ritchie County Legislators 
John Jacob Cornwell 
 
West Virginia Veterans Memorial Biographies 
Edward Cody Adams 
Edwin Neil Brissey 
Nason French Conaway 
Lyle Lavaine Finley 
James Harold and Gene Edward Hayes 
Whyley Elton Josh 
Harry A. Layfield 
Charles Wesley Lewellyn and William Todd Lewellyn 
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