When West Virginia was a sparsely settled wild frontier, forts were sanctuaries of safety from Native American raids and stops for soldiers marching across the mountains to fight battles along the ...

Suffice to say that for a number of reasons including settlement pressures from eastern Virginia and the French and a prosperous ... The colony ordered Washington to erect a string of military forts ...

CHARLESTON - Archeologist Stephen McBride will give the final Little Lecture for the 2015 West Virginia Humanities Council series at 2 p.m. on Sunday, June 28, at Humanities Council headquarters ...

FORT McKAVETT, TEXAS — Here, the wind whispers stories. In lonely places such as the frontier forts in West ... he would defend his home state of Virginia. His logic is tortured, but his ...

(AP) — An effort is underway to purchase the site of a frontier ... Virginia Land Trust and the Greenbrier Historical Society are seeking to raise $125,000 to buy the site of Arbuckle's Fort ...

Pricketts Fort State Park, a historically accurate recreation of an actual 18th century frontier fort, offers Colonial Kids Days on specific Wednesdays throughout the summer. "Basically we tout it ...