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The Fort Mill Ridge Civil War Trenches are battle trenches in West Virginia that were originally dug between 1861 and 1862 to be later used in 1863 for the civil war. [2] These trenches lined with chestnut logs by the Confederate artillery during the American Civil War to defend the approaches to Romney on the Northwestern Turnpike and the ...
Taggart Hall is a late 18th-century residence that houses the Fort Mill Ridge Foundation and its Fort Mill Ridge Civil War Trenches museum. It is at 91 South High Street, Romney, West Virginia. Next to Taggart Hall on Gravel Lane is Romney's oldest structure, the Wilson-Wodrow-Mytinger House (c. 1760).
The Davis House was home to the Davis family which sent two sons to fight for the Confederacy and one for the Union. Now a museum, it features Civil War artifacts and period furnishings. Confederate Memorial, Indian Mound Cemetery; Fort Mill Ridge Civil War Trenches, US Route 50; Hampshire County Courthouse, Main and High Streets
The Fort Mill Ridge Wildlife Management Area is located on 217 acres (0.88 km 2) [2] two miles (3 km) southwest of Romney in Hampshire County, West Virginia. Fort Mill Ridge WMA is owned by the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources. The Fort Mill Ridge Civil War Trenches are located at the top of the Fort Mill Ridge access road.
Fort Mill Ridge Civil War Trenches; Frenchburg, West Virginia; Frye's Inn; G. Glen Ferris Inn; H. Halfway House (Ansted, West Virginia) Hampshire County Courthouse ...
On the 20th of November, 1861, he wrote to the War Department, proposing an expedition to Romney, in western Virginia. It was decided to adopt his proposition, endorsed by the commander of the department, and, to insure success, though not recommended in the endorsement, his old brigade, then in the Confederate Army of the Potomac , was ...
Tax records indicate Samuel Myers initially operated a Grist Mill and Saw Mill on the property during 1799 according to historian Stephen Smith. Myers Mill is indicated, at this Codorus Creek site ...
Fort McCulloch; Fort McHenry; Fort Mill Ridge Civil War Trenches; Fort Mitchell (South Carolina) Fort Morgan (Alabama) Fort Morris; Fort Moultrie; Fort Negley; Fort Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia) Fort Pemberton (South Carolina) Fort Pickens; Fort Pike; Fort Pillow State Historic Park; Fort Pocahontas; Fort Pringle; Fort Pulaski National Monument