Wetzel county was formed by act of January
10, 1846, from Tyler, and named in honor of Lewis Wetzel, the distinguished
frontiersman and Indian scout— the Boone of Northwestern Virginia. The
literature of the border is filled with details of his adventures and
exploits, some of which have been interwoven into fiction, prominently in the
work entitled "Rose Forester," in which the scene is laid aroundMount Pleasant, which is plainly visible from Lancaster, the seat of justice of Fairfield County, Ohio.
New Martinsville, was made the seat of justice by
the act creating the county, and was incorporated by act of March 18,
1848.
[Source:
History of West
Virginia; By Virgil Anson Lewis; publ. 1887; Pg.
687;
Transcribed
and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack]
