Giles County was formed in 1806 from Montgomery, Tazewell, and Monroe and was named for William B. Giles, United States Senator and Governor of Virginia from 1827 to 1830; Mountain Lake is in this county. West Virginia was long a part of Virginia, Morgan Morgan began the settlement of the region in 1727, a great battle with the Indians took place at Point Pleasant in 1774, and West Virginia became a separate state in 1863.