Widow Fraser after all these years
Fraser was a trader on the very frontline of the frontier. Of course no leader used that word frontier. They called this the back...
Winchester VA B-Day? 1744 or 1752 ?
Winchester VA is Founded March 9, 1744 Established April 20, 1752 . As of this writing 5/7/2017 Apple Blossom festival is wrapping up,...
Newspaper Articles all years
. . Larry Allen Clowser Webb · 1764 June 6th - Tells of the June 1764 Indian attack on the settlers of western Frederick County VA that...
Queen of the Pamunkey
How we found the Queen of the Damned ‘ ‘ If they had killed my grandfather and my grandmother, my father and mother and all my friends,...
Look across the river from Mt Vernon
We bring this story up here in our Fort Loudoun Winchester VA site because George Washington had a nickname during his years here. ....
William Crawford
WILLIAM CRAWFORD BURNED AT THE STAKE this page is still under construction 1782 June 11 William Crawford, GW’s man from the beginning ...
PEALE’S 1772 PORTRAIT OF WASHINGTON
. CHARLES WILLSON PEALE’S 1772 PORTRAIT OF WASHINGTON 1772 Washington’s first known portrait by Charles Willson Peale. First posted in...
4 Shawnee Hostages 1774 in Winchester VA
1774 December 7 A travelling minister Cresswell saw 4 Shawnee Chiefs in Winchester being taken to Williamsburg as hostages to be held in...
Was John Washington the Town Destroyer?
We answer No. But everywhere else on the internet you will see this is claimed as true. Everywhere you look you will see someone mention...
Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis
From OUT OF THE PAST from the archives of the Winchester Star published 4 Dec 2023 The Holmes Ginn farm, known as "Buena Vista," in...
