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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCPY_american-discovery-trail_Fort-Ashby-WV.html
What is the American Discovery Trail?The American Discovery Trail (ADT) is a project administered by the American Discovery Trail society to develop our nation's first coast-to-coast, multi-use hiking trail. It connects people to large cities, sma…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCPX_fort-ashby_Fort-Ashby-WV.html
Fort Ashby, one in the chain of Indian forts built by George Washington, 1755. sharp fighting here 1756. in 1794, troops under Gen. Daniel Morgan camped here on their way to suppress Whiskey Rebellion. Fort restored by W.P.A., 1939.
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Erected in 1755 by Lieut. John Bacon under orders from George Washington and garrisoned with twenty-one men. Lieut. Robert Rutherford, with company of Rangers, was defeated here, August, 1756, by the French and Indians. Fort was named for Col. Joh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCPU_fort-sellers_Ridgeley-WV.html
On land Washington surveyed for Elias Sellers in 1748 stood this fort, important link in system of frontier defenses. It was garrisoned by an officer and thirty men and withstood several attacks by the Indians.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9Y4_nancy-hanks_New-Creek-WV.html
This tablet marks the site of the cabin where Nancy Hanks Lincoln's Mother was born 1782