Historical Sketches of Pocahontas County, West VirginiaHayward's New England Gazetteer contains descriptions of nearly 10,000 places counties, towns, villages, rivers, bays, streams, islands, and so forth scattered among this six state region. The descriptions are full or spare, by design. However, at a minimum, the descriptions include, in the case of communities, the date of the locality's founding or incorporation, precise location, population and principal industry in 1837, and something about the