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Yohogania County, VirginiaYohogania County was an area disputed between Virginia and Pennsylvania. The problem arose through the complex and conflicting manner of granting colonial territory and defining boundaries during the Colonial period. There were many disputes over boundaries in western Virginia and Pennsylvania prior to 1780. Similar conflicts between Maryland and Pennsylvania were resolved by 1767 through the work of two men chosen by Lord Baltimore (for Maryland) and William Penn and his father (for Pennsylvania). Astronomer Charles Mason and surveyor Jeremiah Dixon came from England to do this work. The line they located has since been known as the Mason and Dixon's Line. However, their authority extended west only as far as Western Maryland, and did not resolve border conflicts in the area known as Yohogania County. Virginia and Pennsylvania disputes there and elsewhere along the Virginia-Pennsylvania border areas continued throughout the remainder of the colonial period. After the areas in dispute became part of the newly-formed United States, the new states of Virginia and Pennsylvania (each one of the first thirteen states which formed the union) soon reached an agreement, and most of Yohogania County became part of Pennsylvania in 1780 under terms agreed of the state legislatures of both Virginia and Pennsylvania. A small remaining portion left in Virginia was too small to form a county, and was annexed to two other Virginia counties, Ohio County and Monongalia County, West Virginia, later becoming part of West Virginia. In Pennsylvania, the "lost" county of Yohogania was replaced by newly-formed Washington County in 1781. Included in the area which was in Yohogania County are the present Union Township and its neighboring Borough of Jefferson. See also Lost Counties, Cities and Towns of Virginia
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