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Ancestral Wars

bj omanson wrote 6 months ago: On May 25th, Memorial Day, Pricketts Fort held observances in memory of the men from Pricketts Fort … more →

Tags: Lord Dunmore's War, civilian militia, Shawnee, Mingo, Zackquill Morgan, Chief Logan, Jacob Prickett, Okey Simmons, Aaron Bosnick

Backwoods Virginians and the "First Declaration of Independence"

bj omanson wrote 1 year ago: There are many stories to be told of the earliest days of what is now West Virginia, and most have b … more →

Tags: Intolerable Acts, Adam Stephen, American Revolution, civilian militia, Continental Congress, Daniel Morgan, Declaration of Independence, Fort Gower, frontier forts

Chief Logan & the birth of Pricketts Fort

bj omanson wrote 1 year ago: On this date, in 1774, at a trading post in Baker’s Bottom, near Wheeling on the Ohio River, a … more →

Tags: Lord Dunmore's War, frontier forts, Virginia frontier, civilian militia, Shawnee, Mingo, Monongahela River, Chief Logan, Chief Cornstalk

a mingling of eras

bj omanson wrote 1 year ago: On this day, two hundred and thirty-one years ago, in 1777, when the original Pricketts Fort was onl … more →

Tags: Lord Dunmore's War, frontier forts, Virginia frontier, frontier farming, civilian militia, Re-enacting, Shawnee, flintlock muskets, Daniel Boone


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