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In 1924, West Virginia Governor Ephraim F. Morgan appointed a committee to study the circumstances surrounding the settlement of Morgan Morgan, the first white homesteader within West Virginia's present boundaries. The committee determined that a crude shelter built by Morgan in 1726 was the first house to be constructed in present-day West Virginia. Morgan's shelter was built on the property of the William G. Morgan House near Bunker Hill in Berkeley County. Later research revealed that Morgan probably built the log house between 1731 and 1734 at that location. It was rebuilt in 1976. In 1976, the Berkeley County Historical Landmarks Commission purchased the ruin of Morgan's cabin, and dismantled and reconstructed the building with some of the logs from the original structure.