Fun Fact: Westsylvania

Hey, did anybody know that there was once a proposed state called "Westsylvania?"

Many settlers in the region believed that the governments of Virginia and Pennsylvania were too far removed from the west and were apathetic to western concerns. Inspired by the ideals of the American Revolution, in the summer of 1776 settlers in the region proclaimed their independence from Pennsylvania and Virginia by petitioning the Second Continental Congress to recognize Westsylvania as the fourteenth state. In "The Memorial of the Inhabitants of the Country, West of the Allegheny Mountains," the petitioners reviewed the dispute between Pennsylvania and Virginia, which they believed would "in all Probability terminate in a Civil War". They also informed the Congress that "Land Jobbers" were facilitating unlawful encroachment on Native American land, which would produce "a bloody, ruinous & destructive War with the Indians...."

Didn't quite turn out that way. Though fun to imagine if it had. I guess it'd be mostly racists and rednecks.