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To commemorate their organization
February 22, 1916
and preserve the original name
of the town and river crossing
of colonial days
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Erected February 22, 1917
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This house was acquiredin 1995 byactress Mary Tyler Moore,a descendant ofConrad Shindler,and donated to Shepherd College Foudationin honor of her father,George Tyler Moore.Between 1869 and 1995, this house served as the Reformed Church parsonage.
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Chartered Dec. 11, 1811
by the Grand Lodge of the State of Virginia.
Admitted as a member of the Grand Lodge
of West Virginia Nov. 13, 1872.
Stated-Communications
First and third Mondays of each month
and on the Festivals of St. John the
Ba…
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September 19, 1862 The Army of Northern Virginia, Gen. R. E. Lee Commanding, crossed Blackford's Ford during the night of September 18, 1862, and on the morning of the 19th took up its line of march in the direction of Williamsport. Lawton's and A…
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Built by Col. Joseph Van SwearingenAmerican Revolutionary SoldierVisited by Lafayette, George Washington, Henry Clay and Wm. J. BryanHome of Henry Shepherd V. Descendant of Shepherdtown's founder
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Early settlers crossed the Potomac here. "Stonewall" Jackson and A.P. Hill used this ford on the way to Battle of Antietam. Here Lee's army crossed after the battle, with the Corn Exchange Regiment, other Federals in pursuit.
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(Preface): The Federal offensive in the Shenandoah Valley begun in May 1864 faltered in the summer with Confederate victories and Gen. Jubal A. Early's Washington Raid in July. Union Gen. Philip H. Sheridan took command in August, defeated Early a…
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On 11 June 1775, the Second Continental Congress authorized the raising of ten companies of riflemen in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to aid General George Washington at the British siege of Boston. The Berkeley County Committee of Safety s…
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Col. Drake1st Va. CavalryKilled
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Less than half mile eastward is the famous spring around which, from their rendezvous on lands of Morgan and Bedinger, July 17th, 1775 Captain Hugh Stephenson's Company of Virginia Riflemen, 98 volunteers started on their bee-line march to Boston …