Meyerstown is an unincorporated community near the Shenandoah River in Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States.
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The Battle of Kabletown took place between Confederate and Union forces near the end of the American Civil War. Captain John S. Mosby, with nine companies of cavalry, defeated Captain Richard R. Blazer's outnumbered Blazer's Scouts.
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Kabletown is an unincorporated community in Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States. The town lies along a spring-fed stream called Bullskin Run near the Shenandoah River on Kabletown Road, very close to the border with Virginia. Kabletown's population was 10,073 in 2000.
The community derives its name from the local Kable family.
During the Civil War, the Battle of Kabletown took place on November 18, 1864, between Mosby's Rangers and Blazer's Scouts.
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The Rocks, also known as Raven's Rock and Raven Rocks, is a late-18th-century stone residence and 79-acre farm complex near Charles Town, Jefferson County, in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The Rocks is a historic district consisting of four contributing structures. The primary structure is a 2-and-a-half-story stone residence known as The Rocks, which was built around 1790, in the Georgian architectural style.
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Long Marsh Run is a small stream located in the Shenandoah Valley along the border of Virginia and West Virginia. A tributary of the Shenandoah River, Long Marsh Run's headwaters is about three miles northeast of Berryville, Virginia, where it flows east into West Virginia and thence into the Shenandoah.
Long Marsh Run was first settled by the LaRue family in the 1740s. Today, four historic homes associated with the LaRue family are located along the banks of the creek. In 1996, the Long Marsh Run Rural Historic District was established to help preserve the historic buildings and the rural character of the land for future generations.
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Bullskin Run is a stream in the U.S. state of West Virginia.
Bullskin Run probably derives its name from the buffaloes which once roamed the area.
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Robert Page Sims, African American academic and university president