Site of First Gilmer Court
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On 24 March 1845, Commissioners met here in Salathiel Stalnaker's brick home to organize Gilmer County from parts of Lewis and Kanawha. Members were: Bennett, Conrad, Hayes, Stump, Riddle, Arnold, Huffman, Cook, Maze, Benson, Knotts, Holt, Norman, Cox & Stalnaker. Voters, by majority of 66, moved county seat from Dekalb site to the "Ford," later named Glenville.
In 1880s, damaged by flooding, home was razed.
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Glenville State College
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At top of the hill is the site of a log fort 30 X 30 feet in size, built in spring, 1864, for Capt. W. T. Wiant's Gilmer County Home Guards.
Samuel Lewis Hays
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Built this home in 1837 on a 1000-acre tract, and laid out the town of Glenville in 1845.
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Formed in 1845 from Kanawha and Lewis.