A History of Jefferson County, West Virginia

By: Millard K. Bushong, Pub. 1941, Reprinted 2019, 456 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-026-8.   Jefferson County was formed in 1801 from Berkeley County. It sits in the Shenandoah Valley and is the eastern most county in West Virginia, bordering Washington County, Maryland and Loudoun, Clarke, & Berkeley Counties, Virginia. This book is not too different from other county history books of this era. With such topics as county creation, trade and transportation, labor, far