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- Lost counties, cities, and towns of Virginia are those that existed in the English Colony of Virginia or the Commonwealth of Virginia after it became a state, and now exist no longer. One former Virginia county, Kentucky, now forms an entire state. The last major loss took place during the American Civil War, when dozens of western counties separated to form the new State of Kanawha, soon renamed West Virginia. Two more counties—Berkeley and Jefferson—were taken from Virginia and joined to West Virginia in 1866, against the wishes of a majority of their residents. Within current state boundaries, the US military took control of several communities on the Virginia Peninsula for military needs during World War I and World War II. Over 50 years later, these areas remain military reservations. Beginning just after World War II, a wave of political conversions and consolidations of local governments in southeastern Virginia in the third quarter of the 20th century (from 1952–1976) eliminated five counties, three cities, and one incorporated town—but also produced two new cities and expanded one existing city from two to 250 square miles (5 to 650 km²). Through that process, even the desolate Virginia portion of the Great Dismal Swamp is located in two "cities": Chesapeake and Suffolk. Thus, both counties and towns are virtually non-existent in most of Hampton Roads in the 21st century. The lost counties, cities and towns of Virginia involve tales of success, failure, wisdom, honor, tragedy, natural and historic preservation, and national security. Though the fictional Mayberry and neighboring Mt. Pilot belong to North Carolina, Virginia can lay claim to television history and a bit of fun with Walton's Mountain, Valleyville, and real places with names like Wash Woods, said to have been built from the wreckage of ships at the False Cape along the Atlantic Ocean.
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- Lost counties, cities, and towns of Virginia are those that existed in the English Colony of Virginia or the Commonwealth of Virginia after it became a state, and now exist no longer. One former Virginia county, Kentucky, now forms an entire state. The last major loss took place during the American Civil War, when dozens of western counties separated to form the new State of Kanawha, soon renamed West Virginia.
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