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Several smaller Susquehannock sites have been found in the upper Potomac River valley in what is now Maryland and West Virginia that date roughly from 1590 to 1610. [11] Archaeological evidence also exists for a palisaded settlement 30 miles upstream of Washington Boro in what is now Cumberland County that was occupied from about 1610 to 1620.
The town is a settlement at the southern end of the once vast range of the Susquehannock nation or Conestoga [2] Indian nation, which once extended from the northern reaches of Maryland to the along the southern width of southern New York State and southern Catskills where a related people, the Five Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy held ...
Mason County, West Virginia – An Archaeological Treasure Photos and descriptions of artifacts from protohistoric sites in West Virginia; Images from Moorefield Village Site 46 Hy 89 Archived June 17, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Photos from a Susquehannock site; Videos of West Virginia archeology, Division of Culture and History
The Pocomoke Indian Nation, which is not recognized as a tribe, claims to descend from the Pocomoke people.It is an unrecognized tribe that incorporated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in 2014. [2]
An Appalachian New Deal: West Virginia in the Great Depression (West Virginia University Press, 1998) 316 pp. ISBN 978-1-933202-51-8; Trotter Jr., Joe William. Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915–32 (1990) William, John Alexander. West Virginia and the Captains of Industry (1976), economic history of late 19th century.
By 1600, incursions by the Susquehannock and other Iroquoian peoples from the north had almost entirely destroyed many of the Algonquian settlements above present-day Great Falls, Virginia on the Potomac River. [23] The villages below the fall line survived by banding together for the common defense. They gradually consolidated authority under ...
When the English began to colonize what is now Maryland, the Tayac made allies of the newcomers. He granted the English a former Indian settlement, which they renamed St. Mary's City, after their own monarch. The Tayac intended the new colonial outpost to serve as a buffer against Susquehannock incursions from the north.
The Monongahela cultural region with some of its major sites and neighbors as of 1050~1635 AD. The Monongahela culture were an Iroquoian Native American cultural manifestation of Late Woodland peoples from AD 1050 to 1635 in present-day Western Pennsylvania, western Maryland, eastern Ohio, and West Virginia. [1]