05 Wednesday Apr 2017
Posted in Boone County, Native American History
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Appalachia, Boone County, burial mound, history, Indian Creek, Jackson County, Logan County Banner, mounds, Native American History, Native Americans, Racine, W.D. Fontaine, West Virginia
Logan County Banner (Logan, WV), 21 April 1898.
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.
21 Thursday Jan 2016
Posted in Logan, Native American History
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Appalachia, archaeology, history, Huntington, J.B. Wilkinson, Logan, Logan County, Logan County Banner, Native American History, West Virginia
Source: Huntington Advertiser, 09 August 1895
23 Sunday Feb 2014
Posted in Ed Haley, Ferrellsburg, Native American History, Women's History
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Appalachia, culture, Ferrellsburg, history, life, Lincoln County, Native American History, photos, Stella Mullins, West Virginia
Stella (Abbott) Mullins of Ferrellsburg, Lincoln County, West Virginia
20 Tuesday Aug 2013
Posted in Native American History
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American Revolution, Appalachia, history, Mason County, Native American History, photos, Point Pleasant, West Virginia
Monument commemorating the Battle of Point Pleasant, which occurred between Native Americans and Virginians at the mouth of the Kanawha River on October 10, 1774. Considered the key event of Dunmore’s War, some regard it as the first battle of the American Revolution. Photo taken in the spring of 2013.
17 Saturday Aug 2013
Posted in Native American History
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archaeology, arrowheads, Braxton County, Bulltown, Early Archaic Period, history, Late Archaic Period, Late Prehistoric Period, Native American History, photos, West Virginia, Woodland Period
Arrowheads located in the Bulltown Museum, Braxton County, WV, 9 Feb 2013.
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