The Battle of Cheat Mountain, also known as the Battle of Cheat Summit Fort, took place from September 12 to 15, 1861, in Pocahontas County and Randolph County, Virginia (now West Virginia) as part of the Western Virginia Campaign during the American Civil War.
He spent his early life west of the Shenandoah Mountains, in what was then part of Virginia and is now in West Virginia: he was born in Randolph County, and his parents, Edward and Elizabeth Jackson, soon moved the family west to Lewis County, on the Cumberland Plateau.
Derickson's first involvement in electoral politics came in the early 1960s, when he assisted in the campaign of a friend running for Randolph County sheriff.
During that time he participated in the Battle of Rich Mountain in Randolph County, Virginia (now West Virginia).
The bridge was built in 1854 as part of a plank toll road connecting Chester to Bremen; the bridge allowed agricultural products to be transported to Chester, a significant port on the Mississippi River.
Wedowee lies in the center of Randolph County, on a fork of the Little Tallapoosa River.
William Jasper Blackburn, a Reconstruction U.S. Representative from Louisiana, was born on the Fourche de Mau in Randolph County in 1820.
Rick Derringer of the group, the McCoys, who had the hit song, "Hang on Sloopy".
The county was organized January 22, 1829 and named for U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator John Randolph of Roanoke of Virginia.
Randolph County was the original location of what became Duke University.
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Braxton Craven - Educator and second president of Trinity College, which later moved to Durham and became Duke University
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Rufus Hussey - The Beanshooter Man who appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
William Wallace Barron, former governor who was indicted for bribery and jury tampering.
Rufus Taft Hussey (12 March 1919 – 24 February 1994) grew up in Randolph County, North Carolina.
Winfred Rembert was born on November 22nd, 1945 in Cuthbert, Randolph County, in the US state Georgia.
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Justice Baricevic presides over the Twentieth Judicial Circuit (Fifth Appellate District) in Illinois for the counties of Monroe, Perry, Randolph, St. Clair, and Washington.
Volunteering for service in the Union Army, he was soon given a medical discharge, and spent the remaining war years as editor of the Winchester Journal in Randolph County, Indiana.
Hulond Humphries, former principal in Randolph County, Alabama who threatened to cancel the school prom in the mid-1990s to prevent attendance by interracial couples.
The Sinks of Gandy — also called the Sinks of Gandy Creek, or simply “The Sinks” — are a modestly celebrated cave and underground stream at Osceola in eastern Randolph County, West Virginia, USA.
Formed from portions of Randolph and Lee counties on February 16, 1856, by an act of the Georgia General Assembly, Terrell County is named for Dr. William Terrell of Sparta, Georgia, who served in the Georgia General Assembly and the United States House of Representatives.