Boone County



Madison

Established as the county seat after the Civil War, replacing Ballardsville across the river.

Population 2010 Census: 3,076
Median Age: 42.1 years

Courthouse: Completed 1921
Architect: H. Rus Warne

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Formed: 1847
Named: Daniel Boone, whose home was in the Kanawha Valley from 1789 to 1795
County Seat: Madison
Land in Square Miles: 501.54
Population 2010 Census: 24,629
Persons per Square Mile 2010: 49.1

Primary Sources Online
Photographs of Schools in Boone County
Whitesville Bridge Disaster
1960 Presidential Campaign in Boone County

Coal River Mining Institute winners, 1938   (dialup)    (broadband)
Coal River Mining Institute entertainment, 1938   (dialup)    (broadband)
Big John drag line at work in Julian, 1983   (dialup)    (broadband)
Andy Averson of Whitesville and his crop of figs, 1983   (dialup)    (broadband)
Beekeeper Seth Toney of Blooming Rose, 1983   (dialup)    (broadband)
Byron Weaver of Blooming Rose, 1983   (dialup)    (broadband)
Roy Douglas of Peytona and his turtle doves, 1983   (dialup)    (broadband)
Derick Foster of Madison and his toy cars, 1983   (dialup)    (broadband)
Tow Truck at Nellis Motors, 1984   (dialup)    (broadband)
Zach Karantonis memorabilia, 1984   (dialup)    (broadband)
Bill McIntyre, 1984   (dialup)    (broadband)
Gloria Burton's doll collection, Danville, 1985   (dialup)    (broadband)
Coal artist James Stewart of Madison, 1985   (dialup)    (broadband)
Hasil Adkins, 1990s   (dialup)    (broadband)
Birchfield and other miners seeking panel rights, 1994   (dialup)    (broadband)

Civil War
Boone Courthouse Fight, 1861
The Mounted Rangers in the West, 1861
Expedition to Logan Court-House and the Guyandotte Valley, 1862
Scout to Boone Courthouse, 1863
Boone County Union Militia Letters, Folder 13
Boone County Union Militia Letters, Folder 14
Boone County Union Militia Letters, Folder 15

Secondary Sources Online
List of Boone County Legislators
Boone native, D-Day veteran remembered in Alabama

West Virginia Veterans Memorial Biographies
Oliver Clinton Ball Jr.
Karol Clay
Jackie Lee Dickens
Artice Cleo Estep
Hobert Oather Estep
Robert Lee Fleck
Silbert Pershing Greene
Jimmie Gyovai
Wilbur S. Hager
Charles Mitchell Hannah
William George Hawks
Herschel Ashby Jarrell
Marshall Lee King
Paul Earnest King
Eston Cameron Kuhn
Darwin Keith Kyle
Charles Wesley Lantz
Harry Carlyle McMicken
Oscar T. Midkiff
Chester Aubrey Mollett
Kermit Delmer Oxley
Carl Lissell Smith
Leo Smith
Willie Ray Stollings
Albert Hanley Totten
Gene Dempsey Totten
Russell P. Vidoloff
Johnnie Arvil Wallace
James J. Waters
Willie Paul Wilson

History of the American Negro Biographies
Edward Howard
Andrew Jefferson Smoot



Teacher Resources

West Virginia Archives and History