Berkeley County, West Virginia
United States
Berkeley County, West Virginia shares 50 connections with 4569 other places across 6 topics, concentrated in military history, natural geography, and the broader history of the colonial and early American frontier. The county overlaps most with Virginia, Ohio, and West Virginia across its connections. Evidence traces the county to Indigenous territorial disputes, colonial exploration in 1670 by German physician John Lederer, and Shawnee raids during the American Revolutionary War era that reached from Greenbrier County northward into the Shenandoah Valley.
John Lederer
Connects Berkeley County, West Virginia to: Lynchburg, Virginia | Winchester, Virginia
Delaware Tribe of Indians
Connects Berkeley County, West Virginia to: Roscoe, New York | Lenapah, Oklahoma
Sleepy Creek Mountain
Connects Berkeley County, West Virginia to: Berkeley Springs, West Virginia | Johnsons Mill, West Virginia
Henry Bouquet
Connects Berkeley County, West Virginia to: Ohio | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | Logstown, Pennsylvania
Pontiac (Ottawa leader)
Connects Berkeley County, West Virginia to: Pontiac, Michigan | Lincoln Park, Michigan | Pontiac, Quebec
Cornstalk (Shawnee leader)
Connects Berkeley County, West Virginia to: Winchester, Virginia | Lewis District, Mason County, West Virginia | Cornstalk, West Virginia
Chalahgawtha
Connects Berkeley County, West Virginia to: Chillicothe, Ohio | Chillicothe, Missouri | Chillicothe, Illinois
Hurons
Connects Berkeley County, West Virginia to: Georgetown, Ontario | Elmira, Ontario | Asphodel–Norwood, Ontario | Goodrich, Wisconsin
Fort Henry (Virginia)
Connects Berkeley County, West Virginia to: Petersburg, Commonwealth of Virginia | Blacksburg, Virginia | Colonial Heights, Virginia | Gap Mills, West Virginia | Betty Zane, West Virginia
Virginia Secession Convention of 1861
Connects Berkeley County, West Virginia to: Northern Virginia | Charleston, West Virginia | Clarksburg, West Virginia | Greenbrier County, West Virginia | Tucker County, West Virginia
North Mountain (Virginia-West Virginia)
Connects Berkeley County, West Virginia to: Virginia | West Virginia | White Hall, Frederick County, Virginia | Green Spring, Frederick County, Virginia | Allensville, West Virginia
South Branch Potomac River
Connects Berkeley County, West Virginia to: Virginia | Ohio | Baltimore, Maryland | Springfield, Illinois | West Virginia