Fort Ashby, West Virginia

United States

Fort Ashby, West Virginia holds 53 connections spanning 5447 places across 10 topics, with its heaviest concentrations in nature, military, and history. Virginia, Ohio, and Maryland share the most connections with it. Colonel Washington's orders called for the garrison to hold or burn the fort rather than surrender it, with Fort Cumberland as the fallback position. Around 1755 or 1756, Chief Killbuck led warriors from the Muskingum River Valley in Ohio across the Alleghenies to attack settlers in Patterson Creek Valley, where the village sits.