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To: hanamizu

Virginia moved its capital from Jamestown to Williamsburg and later to Richmond. I think Georgia and Tennessee both moved the location of their state capitals. Alaska was going to move its capital from Juneau to someplace more accessible (between Anchorage and Fairbanks) but that never materialized. There are probably some other states which moved their capital at some point in their history.


8 posted on 04/29/2019 4:36:21 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

WV from Wheeling to Charleston back to Wheeling then back to Charleston!


9 posted on 04/29/2019 4:40:33 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Verginius Rufus

The DuPage county seat moved back and forth, the last time at midnight.

“In 1857, the Illinois state legislature authorized an election to be held to decide the question of whether the DuPage county seat should remain in Naperville or be moved to the more centrally located Wheaton...

. Naperville won the election by a vote of 1,542 to 762. Hostility between the two towns continued for the next decade and another election was held in 1867, in which Wheaton narrowly won by a vote of 1,686 to 1,635.

animosity between the two towns continued, and in 1868, as records were moved from the old Naperville courthouse to the new one in Wheaton, Naperville refused to turn over the remaining county records, prompting a band of Civil War veterans from Wheaton to conduct what came to be known as the “Midnight Raid” on the Naperville courthouse.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheaton,_Illinois


10 posted on 04/29/2019 5:06:01 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!")
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