Braxton County
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Braxton County is a county in the central part of the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 14,523. The county seat is Sutton. The county was formed in 1836 from parts of Lewis, Kanawha, and Nicholas counties and named for Carter Braxton, a Virginia statesman and signer of the Declaration of Independence.
In 2010, the center of population of West Virginia was in northern Braxton County.[4]
Important salt works were located at Bulltown and here, in 1772, Captain Bull and his family and friendly indigenous Americans, also known as Delaware Indians, were massacred by descendants of European immigrants or frontiersmen.....Read More - Wikipedia....
