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The American Battlefield Trust and its partners have acquired and preserved more than 114 acres (0.46 km 2) of the Wyse Fork battlefield. [3] The battlefield is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Lenoir County, North Carolina. The battlefield is now under threat by an NCDOT project to create a bypass around Kinston.
The Allstadt House and Ordinary was built about 1790 on land owned by the Lee family near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, including Phillip Ludwell Lee, Richard Bland Lee and Henry Lee III. The house at the crossroads was sold to the Jacob Allstadt family of Berks County, Pennsylvania in 1811.
Harpers Ferry is a historic town in Jefferson County, West Virginia, in the lower Shenandoah Valley.The town's population was 269 at the 2020 United States census.Situated at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers, where Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia meet, it is the easternmost town in West Virginia as well as its lowest point above sea level.
Dennis Harper and Wade Sokolosky know the Civil War Battle of Wyse Fork as well as anyone. Harper, 70, grew up on the battlefield east of Kinston and has found more than 15,000 bullets, belt ...
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, originally Harpers Ferry National Monument, is located at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers in and around Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. The park includes the historic center of Harpers Ferry, notable as a key 19th-century industrial area and as the scene of John Brown's failed ...
Carnifex Ferry Battlefield State Park; Cass Scenic Railroad State Park; Castle Mountain (Hampshire County, West Virginia) Castle Mountain (Pendleton County, West Virginia) Cathedral State Park; Cedar Creek State Park; Charleston, West Virginia; Cheat Lake; Cheat Lake, West Virginia; Cheat Mountain; Chief Logan State Park; Clarksburg, West ...
On May 31, 2018, the Trust announced that with the acquisition of 13 acres (5.3 ha) at the Cedar Creek battlefield in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, it had reached the milestone of 50,000 acres (200 km 2) of battlefield land acquired and preserved. Since 1987, the Trust and its federal, state, and local partners have preserved land in 25 ...
The Harpers Ferry Historic District comprises about one hundred historic structures in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.The historic district includes the portions of the central town not included in Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, including large numbers of early 19th-century houses built by the United States Government for the workers at the Harpers Ferry Armory.