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George Washington ordered Fort Ashby abandoned by the Virginia Regiment
Fort Ashby was built on John Sellers's farm within the present hamlet of Fort Ashby, Mineral County, in the fall of 1755, during the French and Indian War. The fort site is located near Patterson Creek, on the north side of Dan's Run Road just eas...
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