Chapter 5 Important People and Places

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Chapter 5 Important People and Places
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first permanent European settler in West Virginia

• Morgan Morgan

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German settlers from Pennsylvania (Deutsch)

• Pennsylvania Dutch

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Virginia granted him 10,000 acres in the
Shenandoah Valley

• Isaac Van Meter

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German from New York, settled near Winchester

• Joist Hite

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surveyor, family owned part of Greenbrier Valley

• Andrew Lewis

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todays location of where Morgan Morgan built a
cabin

• Martinsburg

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location of the first church west of the
Alleghenies

• Bunker Hill

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todays location of Zackquill Morgans settlement,
Morgans Fort

• Morgantown

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near Joist Hites settlement

• Winchester

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Rhine River area of Europe , the scene of many
wars

• Palatinate

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settlement of Thomas Shepherd

• Shepherdstown

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many Scots-Irish settled here, southeast

• Greenbrier Valley

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first settlement west of the Allegheny Divide

• Drapers Meadow

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named for the settler that had lived in a hollow
trunk of a sycamore tree

• Sewell Mountain

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town named for the settler who broke a friendship
with Stephen Sewell over religious differences

• Marlinton

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present town where David Tygart and Robert Files
settled

• Beverly

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named for the settler David Tygart

• Tygart Valley

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named for the settler Robert Files

• Files Creek