Boone County/Lincoln County

Formed, 1847, from Cabell, Kanawha, and Logan. Named for Daniel Boone, noted hunter and explorer, who made his home in the Great Kanawha Valley, 1788-1795. In 1791, he was a member of the Virginia Assembly from Kanawha.

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Formed in 1867 from Cabell, Kanawha, Boone and Putnam. Named for Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States. Producer of oil, gas and coal. Also noted for high quality of tobacco grown on its agricultural lands.Formed in 1848 from Cabell, Mason and Kanawha. Named for Gen. Israel Putnam, a Revolutionary War hero. The county is cut by trails made by American bison to the Ohio River. Its oldest town, Buffalo, is named for them.