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Winter on the frontier: what they lived in
When we think of pioneers on the Allegheny frontier, and how it was that they passed the long winter months, our imaginations may have been influenced by having seen too many old-fashioned paintings o… more →
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Winter on the frontier: what they lived in
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bj omanson wrote 9 months ago: When we think of pioneers on the Allegheny frontier, and how it was that they passed the long winter … more →
Strolling through the Fall Festival at Pricketts Fort
bj omanson wrote 1 year ago: making apple butter outside the Job House throughout the festival local musicians played mountain mu … more →
Fort attacked by Shawnee war party
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bj omanson wrote 1 year ago: I participated in my first re-enactment this past weekend during the Fall Festival here at the fort. … more →
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 →
beyond the fort walls, a wigwam takes shape
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bj omanson wrote 1 year ago: In recent days a new structure has appeared in a grove of trees within sight of Pricketts Fort, an E … more →
Memorial Day observations
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bj omanson wrote 1 year ago: In honor of Memorial Day here at Pricketts Fort, Okey Simmons gave a brief talk about the sacrifice … more →
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 →
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 →
a new season
bj omanson wrote 1 year ago: We just opened here at the fort a couple of days ago. The weather has been about perfect, sunny but … more →
