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Buckhannon Upshur County Courthouse, Buckhannon, W.Va.

Buckhannon

West Virginia, United States
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Buckhannon, city, seat (1851) of Upshur county, north-central West Virginia, U.S., on the Buckhannon River. Settled in 1770, it was named for a local Delaware Indian chief, Buck-on-ge-ha-non, or Buckongahelas. The town site was platted in 1815 by Colonel Edward Jackson, grandfather of Confederate general Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson. During the American Civil War the town was pillaged by Confederates and later occupied by Union troops. Buckhannon is an agricultural (strawberries and livestock) trade centre;...

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