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Views in and Around Martinsburg, Virginia by A. R. Waud (Harper's Weekly, December 3, 1864). The U.S. state of West Virginia was formed out of western Virginia and added to the Union as a direct result of the American Civil War (see History of West Virginia), in which it became the only modern state to have declared its independence from the Confederacy.
Washington Bottom Farm. West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind. Weston and Gauley Bridge Turnpike. White House Farm (Jefferson County, West Virginia) White Top. Willow Wall. The Willows (Moorefield, West Virginia) Categories: American Civil War sites.
Carnifex Ferry Battlefield State Park is an American Civil War battle site that commemorates the Battle of Carnifex Ferry. It is located on the rim of the Gauley River Canyon near Summersville, a town in Nicholas County, West Virginia. The 156-acre (0.63 km 2) [2] park features Patterson House Museum, three views of the Gauley River, hiking ...
May 10, 2016. Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, originally Harpers Ferry National Monument, is located at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers in and around Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. The park includes the historic center of Harpers Ferry, notable as a key 19th-century industrial area and as the scene of John Brown's ...
The Bolivar Heights Battlefield in Jefferson County, West Virginia, partly in the town of Bolivar, is an American Civil War battlefield which, – because of its strategic position overlooking Harpers Ferry, where the U.S. had an armory, and its placement at the head of the Shenandoah Valley – was the site of five separate engagements between ...
Battle of Philippi (1861) / 39.15316; -80.04278. The Battle of Philippi formed part of the Western Virginia Campaign of the American Civil War and was fought in and around Philippi, Virginia (now West Virginia ), on June 3, 1861. A Union Army victory, it was the first organized land action of the war, though generally viewed as a skirmish ...
It was a mostly sunny day on July 4, 1929, when Droop Mountain became the first state park in West Virginia. According to newspaper accounts, as many as 10, 000 poured into the place, to see the ...
April 17, 2003. Fort Boreman is a historic archaeological site encompassing a Civil War fortification located near Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia. It was built in 1863, by Company A of the 11th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment. It is a series of paired, approximately four foot deep trenches encircling the top of the hill in a ...