Search these heroes and heroines by visiting e-wv.The West Virginia (online)Encyclopedia (e-wv) is an exciting depository of West Virginia history that makes learning fun from the home computer as students learn about this important chapter in West Virginia history. THE WEST VIRGINIA ON-LINE ENCYCLOPEDIA – SOURCE FOR YOUTH The frontier families would have crossed the Blue Ridge or the Allegheny mountains on horseback and on foot. Forts were established at the falls of rivers and villages grew around forts. Their food supply consisted of game and native fruits – they could not grow gardens because of Indian attacks. Most settlers were poor and of European ancestry they built their own homes out of logs and made everything by hand. The frontier exhibit tells the story of Western Virginia’s brave men and women who were rugged adventurers and independent, self-reliant, seekers of freedom. PIONEER HISTORY AT THE WEST VIRGINIA MUSEUM In Anna Smucker’s book A History of West Virginia, she calls West Virginia “…a place where hills and hollows are part of its people, a place where family has always been important.” She tells the story of a people – West Virginians – proud to call this beautiful, rugged land home. In the 1700s all of Western Virginia was the wild frontier and settlers were attracted to the dangers in the wild and wonderful land. This heroic quest is carried on today by the West Virginia Department of Education who honor exceptional and daring West Virginia history students as academic Knights of the Golden Horseshoe. Spotswood was accompanied by fifty gentlemen, their servants, and Indian guides in the first journey. Spotswood honored any settler who dared to cross the mountains as Knights of the Golden Horseshoe and awarded them a golden horseshoe. Governor Alexander Spotswood and his Knights of the Golden Horseshoe claimed the Shenandoah region in Virginia for England. Many colonists arrived through the Valley of Virginia, a narrow corridor between the Blue Ridge and Allegheny mountains. In Western Virginia in the 1700s, settlers bravely crossed the rugged hills and mountains to find a new life. The FOUNDERS of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of West Virginia (established in 1900) were dedicated to preserving a popular interest in history and honoring their colonial ancestors. EARLY SETTLERS: Western Virginia 1700-1800
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