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This project is a table of contents for all projects relating to this County of West Virginia. Please feel free to add profiles of anyone who was born, lived or died in this county. Jefferson County was established on October 26, 1801 from Berkeley County because the citizens of southeastern Berkeley County felt they had to travel too far to the county seat of Martinsburg. Charles Washington, ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Texas.The county was established in 1835 as a municipality of Mexico, which had gained independence from Spain. Because the area was lightly settled, the Mexican government allowed European Americans from the United States to settle here if they pledged loyalty to Mexico. This was organized as a county in 1837 after ...
This project is for those buried in Prairie Center Cemetery, Packwood, Jefferson County, Iowa. The cemetery is also known as Packwood Cemetery and West Packwood Cemetery . Find a Grave Iowa Gravestones IA GenWeb
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Indiana. Official Website Jefferson County was formed in 1811. It was named for Thomas Jefferson, principal draftsman of the Northwest Ordinance and President of the United States from 1801 through 1809. Adjacent Counties Carroll County, Kentucky Switzerland County Trimble County, Kentucky Clark County ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Iowa. Official Website The county was formed in January 1839, and was named after President Thomas Jefferson. Adjacent Counties Henry County Washington County Van Buren County Keokuk County Wapello County Cities & Townships Batavia Black Hawk Buchanan Cedar Center Coppock Des Moines T...
This project is for those buried in Brownville Cemetery, Brownville, Jefferson County, New York. Find a Grave Billion Graves
Wikipedia The University of Louisville (UofL) is a public university in Louisville, Kentucky, a member of the Kentucky state university system. When founded in 1798, it was the first city-owned public university in the United States and one of the first universities chartered west of the Allegheny Mountains. The university is mandated by the Kentucky General Assembly to be a "Preeminent Metro...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Idaho. Official Website The county was established in 1913 and named after Thomas Jefferson, the third U.S. President. The Salt Lake City to Virginia City Stagecoach was established through the area in 1864. Stops were established at Market Lake (Roberts), Sand Hole (Hamer), and Camas. Small settlements grew up ar...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Wisconsin. Official Website Jefferson County was created in 1836 as part of Wisconsin Territory and was organized in 1839. Jefferson County was founded by "Yankee" settlers from New England and was named after Jefferson County, New York Adjacent Counties Dodge County Dane County Rock County Waukesha Co...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Oklahoma. History In the 1750s, the Taovaya Indians, a Wichita tribe, established twin villages along the Red River, in Jefferson County and across the river near present-day Spanish Fort, Texas. The village became "a lively emporium where Comanches brought Apache slaves, horses and mules to trade for French pack...
Fort Drum is a U.S. Army military reservation and a census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson County, near the western border of northern New York, United States. The population of the CDP portion of the base was 12,955 at the 2010 census. It is home to the 10th Mountain Division. Fort Drum consists of 107,265 acres. In this region, winter temperatures can reach as low as −30 °F. Its mission ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Washington. Official Website Jefferson County was formed on December 22, 1852, by the legislature of Oregon Territory and named for Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States. Adjacent Counties Clallam County Grays Harbor County Island County Kitsap County Mason County San Juan County
Jefferson County was created on December 12, 1914, from a portion of Crook County. The county owes much of its agricultural prosperity to the railroad, which links Madras with the Columbia River, and was completed in 1911, and to the development of irrigation projects in the late 1930s. The railroad was completed despite constant feuds and battles between two lines working on opposite sides of ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, New York. Official Website Jefferson County is part of Macomb's Purchase of 1791 and was split off from Oneida County in 1805. It was named after Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States of America. The United States Army's 10th Mountain Division is based at Fort Drum. Adjacent Counties & Province...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Colorado. Official Website On August 25, 1855, the Kansas Territorial Legislature created Arapahoe County to govern the entire western portion of the territory. The county was named for the Arapaho Nation of Native Americans that lived in the region. On June 22, 1858, gold was discovered along the South Platte Riv...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Missouri. Official Website The county was organized in 1818 and named in honor of former president Thomas Jefferson. Adjacent Counties Franklin County St. Louis County Washington County Monroe County, Illinois St. Francois County Ste. Genevieve County Cities Arnold
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Mississippi. Official Website Founded in 1799, the county was named for U.S. President Thomas Jefferson. Adjacent Counties & Parishes Claiborne County Copiah County Lincoln County Franklin County Adams County Tensas Parish Cities, Towns & Communities Ashland Cannonsburg
This project is for those that were born lived or died in Jefferson County, Florida. In the mid to late 18th century, a group of Native Americans from Chiaha chiefdom settled in what is now Jefferson County. This group would eventually become an element of the Mikasuki speaking Seminole. Jefferson County was created in 1827. It was named for Thomas Jefferson , 3rd President of the United Stat...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Beaumont, Texas. Beaumont is the county seat of Jefferson County on the Neches River. Official Website Overview Beaumont was founded as a town in 1835. The early European–American settlement had an economy based on the development of lumber, farming, and port industries. In 1892, Joseph Eloi Broussard opened the first commerciall...
Wikipedia =Colorado School of Mines, also referred to as "Mines" and "CSM", is a public teaching and research university in Golden, Colorado, devoted to engineering and applied science, with special expertise in the development and stewardship of the Earth's natural resources. CSM placed 75th in the 2015 US News & World Report "Best National Universities" ranking. Notable Alumni
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Kentucky. Official Website Jefferson County—originally Jefferson County, Virginia—was established by the Virginia General Assembly in June 1780, when it abolished and partitioned Kentucky County into three counties. In 1778, during the American Revolutionary War, George Rogers Clark's militia and 60 civilian settl...
The Chenoweth Massacre of July 17, 1789 was the last major Native American raid in present-day Jefferson County, Kentucky (Louisville Metro).Captain Richard Chenoweth, builder of Fort Nelson, was stationed with his family northeast of present-day Middletown when a large band of Native Americans (likely Shawnee) attacked from across the Ohio River. They killed three of Chenoweth's children, Levi...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Georgia. Official Website The county was created on February 20, 1796 and named for Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States. Adjacent Counties Emanuel County Burke County Johnson County Glascock County Warren County Washington County McDuffie County
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Ohio. Official Website Jefferson County was organized on July 29, 1797, by proclamation of Governor Arthur St. Clair. In 1786, the United States built Fort Steuben to protect the government surveyors mapping the land west of the Ohio River. When the surveyors completed their task a few years later, the fort was ab...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania. Official Website The county was established on March 26, 1804, from part of Lycoming County and later organized in 1830. It is named for President Thomas Jefferson. It is home to Punxsutawney Phil, the most famous groundhog that predicts when spring will come every February 2 known as Groundhog Day. ...