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    1. Re: [WVKANAWH] [Fwd: {not a subscriber} census districts]
    2. carolyn
    3. Hello, Is there anyone in Kanawha county area researching the Oshea or Shea name. I am desperate. Carolyn Hitchcock Krause [email protected] wrote: > > Hi Cara. The Districts were areas of the Counties, not the towns or Cities. > I've been trying to find maps or descriptions of where the Districts were for > all the years since Kanawha Co. was a County to present. The Archives have no > maps showing districts and if you get an answer please send it to me. Thanks. > Tim Spradling > > That last email from Artha Griffey on cemetery records made me think of > something I've been wondering for a while. Does anyone know if there is > a > way to find out what districts are in a census? Does the National > Archives > hold some sort of regional map that shows what the districts are in a > town? > Or maybe WV Archives might have something like that. Maybe even not a > map > but just a list of streets that make a boundry, like from Capitol Street > to > Elizabeth Street and from Piedmont street to Kanawha Boulevard is > District > ##. Something like that. Is there such an animal? > > I found a district one time called Magazine District. To my knowledge, > there > is not part of town known as Magazine in Kanawha Co. How would I go > about > finding out where a district is? > > -- > Cara Showers > Anchorage, Alaska > [email protected]

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