St. George is an

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and former

county seat A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish. The term is in use in Canada, China, Hungary, Romania, Taiwan, and the United States. The equivalent term shire town is used in the US st ...

of Tucker County,

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, United States.West Virginia Encyclopedia: "Parsons."
West Virginia Humanities Council, Charleston, WV. Accessed 2013-07-28. It is located on the Cheat River, where it is joined by Minear Run.

History

Originally known as Fort Minear and then as Westernford, St. George was settled in 1774 by German immigrant John Minear and his son, Jonathan, after early scouting visits to the area. In 1856, an act creating the county specified that Tucker's county court was to be held on the lands of Enoch Minear, descendant of Jonathan Minear. The town was then renamed Saint George in honor of Henry St. George Tucker, Jr. (1828–63), the son of the county's namesake,

Henry St. George Tucker, Sr. Henry St. George Tucker Sr. (December 29, 1780 – August 28, 1848) was a Virginia jurist, law professor, and U.S. Congressman (1815–1819). Biography Tucker was born on Mattoax Plantation in Chesterfield County, Virginia on December 29, 1780, ...

(1780–1848). During the Tucker County Seat War, on the evening of August 1, 1893, vigilantes from

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seeking to move the county seat broke into the courthouse and stole the county records and the courthouse bell, moving the government of Tucker County to Parsons, where it has remained to this day. The

St. George Academy St. George Academy, also known as St. George's Ukrainian Catholic School ( uk, 1=Українська Католицька Школа Святого Юра), is an American private, Ukrainian-Catholic high school, located in the East Village ne ...

was listed on the

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in 2001.

Notable people

* William Ewin (1808 – 1886), lawyer and State Senator * Hu Maxwell, local historian born in St. George

References

Unincorporated communities in Tucker County, West Virginia Unincorporated communities in West Virginia Former county seats in West Virginia {{TuckerCountyWV-geo-stub