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Buckhannon | |
Randolph County Convention & Visitors Bureau 1035 N. Randolph Avenue, Elkins, WV 26241
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Buckhannon, the county seat of Upshur County, was the first settlement west of the Alleghenies, established when two brothers abandoned their posts at Fort Pitt (Pittsburgh) and defected to central West Virginia. The city itself was legally established in 1816 and named for a Delaware Indian Chief Buck-on-ge-ha-non, considered the George Washington of the Delaware Indians. It was built on land owned by Elizabeth Cummings Jackson, great grandmother of Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, the famous general who served under the command of Confederate General Robert E. Lee during the Civil War.
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