The History Project: Westsylvania, The 14th Colony - The Second Attempt to Sever Western Virginia from Virginia

04/05/2023 2 min
The History Project: Westsylvania, The 14th Colony - The Second Attempt to Sever Western Virginia from Virginia

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The dream of the colony of Vandalia was ended by the beginning of the Revolutionary War, but the dream of separating West Virginia from Virginia remained alive with the proposed state of Westsylvania, which would also have taken land from Pennsylvania and Maryland. Meanwhile, the official boundaries between the three existing states were in a state of disarray.