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Jesse Hughes (c. 1750 – c. 1829) was a frontiersman, hunter, and scout who was an early settler in the western region of Virginia that became West Virginia and Kentucky. Hughes was noted for his hatred of Native Americans, and is said to have killed many in battle, and murdered several others. [1] "He was as savage as a wolf, and he liked to ...
Hackers Creek is a tributary of the West Fork River, 25.4 miles (40.9 km) long, [3] in north-central West Virginia in the United States.Via the West Fork, Monongahela and Ohio Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 58 square miles (150 km 2) [4] on the unglaciated portion of the Allegheny Plateau.
Orlando is an unincorporated community located in Braxton and Lewis counties, West Virginia, United States. [1] It is located on Oil Creek , a tributary of the Little Kanawha River . The Warehouse in Orlando with an eastbound B&O Train, photographed in the 1960s
The valley was named for its first settler, John Hacker (1743-1824), who reportedly took possession of a tract of land nearby by means of "tomahawk mark" circa 1772. [2] Hacker Valley is home to Holly River State Park and serves as the southern end of the Mountain Parkway Byway scenic byway. The community is also contains the grave of George ...
Weston Colored School, also known as the Central West Virginia Genealogical & Historical Library and Museum and Frontier School, is a historic one-room school building located at Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia. It was built in 1882, and is a single-story rubbed red brick building on a fieldstone foundation. It originally measured 22feet by ...
Descendants of free Black pioneers who settled Lick Creek Settlement hike the Hoosier National Forest Lick Creek Trail after helping clean gravestones at the Roberts & Thomas Cemetery, which is ...
David Morgan (12 May 1721 – 19 May 1813), sometimes known as "The Great Indian Fighter", was a soldier, mountaineer, pioneer, and frontiersman in what is now the state of West Virginia. He was born in Christiana, New Castle, Delaware, the third child of Morgan Morgan and Catherine Garretson Morgan, traditionally stated to be the first white ...
A married man moved into his wife's longhouse. Unlike the Iroquois Confederacy of upstate New York, West Virginia saw no large centralized sovereign national governments of Native Americans. The extent of proto-Iroquoia and proto-Shanwan cultural and language in West Virginia was similar to the St. Lawrence Iroquoians' (Laurentian language). By ...