Cabell County
Cabell County was named after William H. Cabell (above), one time governor of Virginia, who once owned 4,400 acres just north of where the City of Huntington was finally established. Logic decreed that the new county be named after him.
Courtesy of The Herald Dispatch.
The first county seat was in Guyandotte. Barboursville (founded in 1811) became the county seat in 1814. During the Civil War, the county seat of Cabell County was moved back to Guyandotte for protective reasons from 1863-65.
