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Dec 23, 1762

Romney and Shepherdstown were both chartered, West Virginia's oldest cities

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1765

St. Peter's Lutheran Church was established at Shepherdstown

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1787

St. Paul's in Aurora was established

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1806

Lutheranism reached the Ohio River with the Roush family and Reverend Paul Henkel

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1892

St. Paul's became the first Lutheran church in Charleston

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2002

The West Virginia-Western Maryland Snod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America claimed 15,488 baptized members in 62 congregations

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