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| View Original: | Trail at the site of the Cheat Summit Fort, atop Cheat Mountain in the Monongahela National Forest of Randolph County, West Virginia LCCN2015634446.tif.tiff (0x0) | |||
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| Keywords: Trail at the site of the Cheat Summit Fort, atop Cheat Mountain in the Monongahela National Forest of Randolph County, West Virginia LCCN2015634446.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes Purchase; Carol M Highsmith Photography Inc ; 2015; DLC/PP-2015 055 ; Credit line West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division ; Forms part of West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive ; Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; In the summer of 1861 the fort a crude ring of earthen mounds protecting log cabins was hastily built by Union forces attempting to control of the turnpike connecting Staunton in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and Parkerburg then also in Virginia and now in West Virginia on the Ohio River Confederate forces attacked the fort but it never fell It was however abandoned as the fighting moved east and nothing other than a historical information sign remains of the fort today 2015 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2015634446 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/34400/34430a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 34430 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 34430 PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Photographs by Carol M Highsmith | ||||