Chapter 8 Part 2 Important People and Places
first permanent European settler in West Virginia Morgan Morgan
German settlers from Pennsylvania (Deutsch) Pennsylvania Dutch
Virginia granted him 10,000 acres in the Shenandoah Valley Isaac Van Meter
German from New York, settled near Winchester Joist Hite
surveyor, family owned part of Greenbrier Valley Andrew Lewis
today’s location of where Morgan Morgan built a cabin Martinsburg
location of the first church west of the Alleghenies Bunker Hill
today’s location of Zackquill Morgans settlement, Morgan’s Fort Morgantown
near Joist Hite’s settlement Winchester
Rhine River area of Europe, the scene of many wars Palatinate
settlement of Thomas Shepherd Shepherdstown
many Scots-Irish settled here, southeast Greenbrier Valley
first settlement west of the Allegheny Divide Draper’s Meadow
named for the settler that had lived in a hollow trunk of a sycamore tree Sewell Mountain
town named for the settler who broke a friendship with Stephen Sewell over religious differences Marlinton
present town where David Tygart and Robert Files settled Beverly
named for the settler David Tygart Tygart Valley
named for the settler Robert Files Files Creek