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

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