Any of you who chanced to be watching the West Virginia PBS station on Monday night had the opportunity to see the Civil War episode of West Virginia: A Film History, narrated by Richard Thomas, in which there were several evocative shots of the Job Prickett House. And so, as a coda to the recent [...]
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Lingering presences in Civil War-era house on Pricketts Creek
Posted in Civil War, Job Prickett House, Lee Miller, restless shade on June 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Strolling through the Old Camp Ground: the Civil War weekend, continued….
Posted in Aaron Bosnick, Civil War, Job Prickett House, Lee Miller on May 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There are really two different periods of American history to be found here at Pricketts Fort. The first period, of course, is the frontier period, centered around the year 1774 during the uprising of the Mingo and Shawnee tribes under Chief Logan and Lord Dunmore’s War which immediately followed. This was the year when the [...]
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