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Fort Pearsall marker at Indian Mound Cemetery. Fort Pearsall was an early frontier fort constructed in 1756 in Romney, West Virginia (then known as Pearsall's Flats, Virginia) to protect local settlers in the South Branch Potomac River valley against Native American raids. The area around present-day Romney had been settled as early as 1725 by ...
Barracks at Fort Pepperrell. The primary tenant unit at the base was the 6604th Air Base Wing, which maintained and operated Fort Pepperrell. The Royal Canadian Air Force established RCAF Station Torbay on December 15, 1941, and shared this facility with the USAAF and USN, along with the Royal Air Force.
Forts on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia (5 P) Pages in category "Forts in West Virginia" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
Fort Hill, also known as Fort Hill Farm, is a historic plantation house and national historic district located near Burlington, Mineral County, West Virginia. The district includes 15 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 2 contributing structures.
Byrnside-Beirne-Johnson House, also known as "Willowbrook," is a historic home located near Union, Monroe County, West Virginia. The house began as a pioneer log fort built by six families in 1770. After 1855, it was enlarged to a large 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, five-bay, T-shaped dwelling with a two-story rear wing.
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The community was named for the fact the original town site was an Indian old field. [2]Other buildings of interest in the vicinity include Old Fields Church (1812; the second-oldest church in West Virginia), Fort Pleasant, the Isaac Van.Meter House built in the 1810's, the Garrett Van Meter House (1835), Willow Wall (1812), Buena Vista (1836), built for William T. Van Meter (killed in Gen ...