03 Monday Apr 2017
Posted in Civil War, Logan, Native American History, Wyoming County
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Appalachia, Aracoma, archaeology, civil war, G.W. Lawson, history, Julia Altizer, Lincoln County, Logan, Logan County Banner, Logan Court House, Mouth of Sycamore, Native American History, Native Americans, Oceana, Stone Coal, West Virginia, Wyoming County
Logan County Banner (Logan, WV), 10 August 1893. At the time of this story, Logan was known as Aracoma or Logan Court House.
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Do you have knowledge of an Indian tribe in the Coal River area? A niece from California is seeking information about her grandmother, who was supposedly 1/2 Indian and was from Boone Co., in the late1800’s. Thanks
Hi, Betty. Subsequent to the Battle of Fallen Timbers (1794), Native American presence in western Virginia (now West Virginia) pretty well ceased to exist. The defeat of Indians at Fallen Timbers opened the way for permanent Anglo settlement in such areas as Coal River; settlement began in present-day Boone County about 1800. By that time, Native Americans were long gone from the region. Any Boone County resident of the late 1800s era with native ancestry would have acquired it much earlier in time —
likely pre-1800 (unless they had some connection to the Cherokee, for instance, who lived further south in Appalachia or with Indians in the West.)