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The Trough is a 6-mile long wooded gorge carved by the South Branch Potomac River (SBPR) and situated in the Allegheny Mountains of Hampshire and Hardy Counties, West Virginia, US. The area was the site of a 1756 skirmish of the French and Indian War, known as the "Battle of the Trough". The steep slopes of the Trough are forested primarily ...
Moorefield is a town and the county seat of Hardy County, West Virginia, United States. It is located at the confluence of the South Branch Potomac River and the South Fork South Branch Potomac River. Moorefield was originally chartered in 1777; it was named for Conrad Moore, who owned the land upon which the town was laid out.
Fort Pleasant — formerly known as Fort Van Meter and Town Fort [2] [3] [4] and still also known as the Isaac Van Meter House — is a historic site located near the unincorporated community of Old Fields about 5 miles north of Moorefield in Hardy County, West Virginia, U.S. Situated on the South Branch Potomac River, a young Colonel George Washington directed a fortification to be built here ...
2nd. Website. www.hardycounty.com. Hardy County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,299. [1] Its county seat is Moorefield. [2] The county was created from Hampshire County in 1786 [3] and named for Samuel Hardy, [4] a distinguished Virginian.
South Branch Mountain is a mountain ridge that runs southwest to northeast through Hampshire and Hardy counties in the Eastern Panhandle of the U.S. state of West Virginia, rising to its greatest elevation of 3,028 feet (923 m) above sea-level in the Nathaniel Mountain Wildlife Management Area. South Branch Mountain is among the largest and ...
South Fork South Branch Potomac River. The South Fork South Branch Potomac River, sometimes called the South Fork River, forms just north of U.S. Route 250 in Highland County, Virginia, near Monterey, and flows 68.4 miles (110.1 km) [4] north-northeastward to the South Branch Potomac River at Moorefield in Hardy County, West Virginia.
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86000774 [1] Added to NRHP. January 15, 1986. Moorefield Historic District is a national historic district located at Moorefield, Hardy County, West Virginia. The district encompasses 171 contributing buildings. It consists of a mix of commercial, residential and civic structures, ranging in age from the mid 18th century to the early 20th century.