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School of the Longhunter: scenes from the encampment

Posted in "Hair-buyer" Hamilton, American Revolution, Battle of Pt Pleasant, Bill Rundorff, Charlie Brown, Chateaubriand, Chief Logan, Desert Fathers, Doug Wood, Elisha Waldern, Enkiddu, Epic of Gilgamesh, George Rogers Clark, Henry Knox, Henry Skaggs, John the Baptist, Joseph Hollingshead, longhunters, Lord Byron, Lord Dunmore's War, Mad Anne Bailey, Mark Baker, Mark Hersee, Michael Seidelman, Nathan Kobuck, Natural Man, Noble Savage, re-enacting, Rousseau, School of the Longhunter, Shawnee, Simon Girty, Sumerians, Suzanne Dennis, Tacitus, Tecumseh, Ted Franklin Belue, William Baker, William Carr on April 15, 2011 | 3 Comments »

 ~ ~ ~ When I arrived at the encampment at Pricketts Fort on Friday morning, there was still a bit of snow on the ground, and large flakes were falling.  Earlier the ground had been white, but by now only the hills above Pricketts Creek, where they emerged above the mist, were still mantled in [...]

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Memorial Day observances at Pricketts Fort honor war dead of five early American wars

Posted in Aaron Bosnick, American Revolution, Battle of Pt Pleasant, Chief Cornstalk, Chief Logan, Civil War, civilian militia, Lee Miller, Lord Dunmore's War, Michael Ray, Okey Simmons on June 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

On May 31st, Memorial Day, Pricketts Fort held observances in memory of the men from Pricketts Fort who served in the following wars: the French & Indian War, Pontiac’s Uprising, Lord Dunmore’s War and the American Revolution. The ceremony also memorialized the descendents of these men who served in the Civil War. At the time [...]

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On the 4th of July, a recruiting party at Pricketts Fort

Posted in Aaron Bosnick, American Revolution, Capt Springer, civilian militia, flintlock muskets, Fourth of July, recruitment, Tom Carson on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Recruiting new militiamen for an expedition against the Shawnee in the Ohio Territory, on the Cuyahoga River, took place on July 4th and 5th at Pricketts Fort, with indifferent success reported. Although a fair number of interested men initially stepped forward to join the ranks, once it was explained to them that, at the end [...]

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Backwoods Virginians and the “First Declaration of Independence”

Posted in "Intolerable Acts", Adam Stephen, American Revolution, civilian militia, Continental Congress, Daniel Morgan, Declaration of Independence, Fort Gower, frontier forts, George Rogers Clark, living history, Lord Dunmore's War, Michael Cresap, Monongahela River, Prickett family, Shawnee, Simon Girty, Simon Kenton, Thomas Jefferson, Virginia frontier, William Crawford, Zackquill Morgan on July 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

There are many stories to be told of the earliest days of what is now West Virginia, and most have been told elsewhere already. But one story, which ties the origins of this region to the origins of the nation, deserves to be told more often. It involves a document which, while little known except [...]

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