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Clarksburg

West Virginia, United States
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Clarksburg, city, seat of Harrison county, northern West Virginia, U.S. The city lies along the West Fork River. Settled in 1772, it was named for General George Rogers Clark, a noted Virginia frontiersman. Shortly thereafter Thomas Nutter arrived and built a fort near the site where the town of Nutter Fort (now a southeastern suburb) developed. Clarksburg was chartered as a town in 1785, although it had served as the county seat of Harrison since...

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