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  2. Jesse Hughes (frontiersman) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Hackers Creek - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Weston Colored School - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Orlando, West Virginia - Wikipedia

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    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

  6. Jane Lew, West Virginia - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Descendants of free Black settlers help with restoration of ...

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    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 ...

  8. Melungeon - Wikipedia

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    Melungeon (/ m ə ˈ l ʌ n dʒ ən / mə-LUN-jən) (sometimes also spelled Malungean, Melangean, Melungean, Melungin [3]) was a slur [4] historically applied to individuals and families of mixed-race ancestry with roots in colonial Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina primarily descended from free people of color and white settlers.

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