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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 ...
Jesse and his family lived in a cabin on Hacker's Creek, near a stream that is now known as "Jesse's Run", located in present-day Lewis County, West Virginia See McWhorter's Chapter 23, "Genealogy of the Hughes Family" for more names. Hughes is believed to have been one of the first American colonists to explore the Hughes River in West Virginia.
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.
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 ...
Hackers Creek Pioneer Descendants Journal vol XI/2 pg 111. ^ Jacob Haymond in the Braxton Democrat Newspaper , reprinted in "The Haymond Family Newsletter", March 1998, editor Billie Jo Runyon of Colleyville, Texas
Mary Draper Ingles (1732 – February 1815), also known in records as Mary Inglis or Mary English, was an American pioneer and early settler of western Virginia.In the summer of 1755, she and her two young sons were among several captives taken by Shawnee after the Draper's Meadow Massacre during the French and Indian War.
Jane Lew is located at (39.109203, -80.407624), [6] along Hackers Creek in northern Lewis County [ 7 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 0.25 square miles (0.65 km 2 ), of which 0.24 square miles (0.62 km 2 ) is land and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km 2 ) is water.
Lewis County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,033. [1] Its county seat is Weston. [2] The county was formed in 1816 from Harrison County [3] and named for Col. Charles Lewis (1733–1774), a Virginian killed in the Battle of Point Pleasant.