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A new and complete statistical gazetteer of the United States of America, founded on and compiled from official federal and state returns, and the seventh national census. By Richard S. Fisher. 1853.

Guyandotte, p, v., Cabell co., Virg.: on the Ohio r., at the mouth of Guyandotte r., 267 m. W. by N. Richmond.  It is one of the most important points of steamboat navigation in Western Virginia, and the great stage route to Winchester commences here.  A railroad is also projected to Covington and the east generally.  It contains several extensive stores, various mechanic shops, and about 800 inhabitants.  In the vicinity are found many relics of a former race of inhabitants, as bones, arrows, stone-axes, etc.

Green Bottom p.v., Cabell co., Virg.: 257 m. W. by N. Richmond.

Mud Bridge, p.o., Cabell co., Virg.: on an E. branch of Guyandotte r., 249 m. W. by N. Richmond.

Edwards, Richard. Statistical gazetteer of the state of Virginia, embracing important topographical and historical information from recent and original sources, together with the results of the last census population, in most cases, to 1854.1855

Barboursville, a small post-village, capital of Cabell county, Virginia, on the Guyandotte river, 7 miles from its enterance into the Ohio, and 352 miles W.N.W. from Richmond.  The main road leading from the Virginia Springs to the Ohio river passes through this village.  Population, about 250.

Post offices in Cabell County, Virginia.  Bloomingdale,  Green Bottom, Griffithsville, Guyandotte, Mud Bridge. 
A gazetteer of the United States of America ...  By John Hayward, 1854.