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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.
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.
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.
These little communities in Oil Creek’s watershed tended to include a one room school, one or two churches, and perhaps a general store, blacksmith and/or grist mill. In the late 19th century the Coal and Coke [5] and then the Baltimore and Ohio railroad lines were built and they crossed near the community of Confluence. The community of ...
Nicholas Bernard Mangione (/ ˌ m æ n dʒ i ˈ oʊ n i / ⓘ MAN-jee-OH-nee, [1] Italian: [manˈdʒoːne]; [2] February 17, 1925 – November 2, 2008) was an American real estate developer. He was the founder of Lorien Health Services and owner of the radio station WCBM , both in Baltimore .
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 ...
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.
Simon Kenton (aka "Simon Butler") (April 3, 1755 – April 29, 1836) was a renowned American frontiersman, soldier, and pioneer who played a significant role in the settlement of Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio. He was a contemporary and friend of notable figures such as Daniel Boone, Isaac Shelby, and Thomas Hinde.