Boundaries &
Borders
Borders
This marker was placed at the headwaters of the Potomac's North Branch in 1746 by Peter Jefferson.
What is the Fairfax Stone?
This easternmost geographic region is named for the river along which the region lies.
What is the Potomac Section?
The older Paleo and more recent Woodland periods straddle this middle prehistoric period, where the atlatl was invented.
What is the Archaic Period?
The Delaware, Shawnee, and some Mingo spoke this common Eastern Woodland tongue.
What is Algonkian (Algonquian)?
The Latin phrase Sic juvat transcendere montes! is best associated with this colonial-Virginia-governor-turned-explorer.
Who was Alexander Spotswood?
Who was Morgan Morgan?
This 1788 boundary was the source of several legal battles from its creation until 1910, when the US Supreme Court settled the matter once and for all.
What is the Deakins Line?
Both the Allegheny Highlands and Allegheny Plateau share this shape at their northernmost ends.
What is a fork?
Prehistoric peoples became more sedentary over time, as their reliance on and understanding of agriculture increased, while their more distant ancestors lived this more mobile type of lifestyle.
What is nomadic?
This was the exonym applied to the Leni-Lenape tribe by European settlers.
What was Delaware?
Fort Henry was later renamed in honor of him, the fort's commander who launched many of the earliest Trans-Allegheny expeditions.
Who was Abraham Wood?
This German pioneer partnered with Morgan Morgan to found Christ Episcopal Church in Berkeley County.
Who was Joist Hite?
This mountain chain demarks the eastern edge of the Shenandoah Valley.
What are the Blue Ridge Mountains?
What is the Allegheny Plateau?
The Paleo Period ended around this year, just as the Archaic Period began.
What is 10,000 BC?
Concerning the Three Sisters, pumpkins or gourds would be classified as this "sister" group.
What is squash?
His journal details his exploits as far afield as Tennessee's Cumberland Valley.
Who was Thomas Walker?
While Louis Michel succeeded in New Bern, NC, he first failed here at this Virginia river locale.
Where is Harpers Ferry?
This natural boundary runs from the Fairfax Stone in the west to the Blue Ridge Mountains in the east, forming the border between Maryland and West Virginia today.
What is the Potomac River?
What is the Ohio River Valley?
Today, most historians prefer these abbreviations to the arcane BC and AD, mostly to avoid religious connotations.
What is BCE and CE?
Of the tribes adverse to the Iroquois, these "southerners" were the most powerful in the Ohio Valley.
Who were the Shawnee?
Lead plates were buried along the Ohio by Celeron de Blainville in name of this monarch, a Bourbon king of France.
Who was Louis XV?
Morgan and Hite chose this Potomac tributary as the location of Christ Episcopal Church, the first such congregation of that denomination in West Virginia.
What was Opequon Creek?
Formed by the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers at Pittsburgh, this river is the longest West Virginia state boundary.
What is the Ohio River?
Mostly a bedroom community, this region is the fastest growing geographic region in the state, due mostly to its proximity to Maryland and Virginia.
What is the Potomac Section?
In the date c. 1066 AD, the abbreviation c. is shorthand for this Latin term meaning "about" or "around."
What is circa?
Leni-Lenape, an Algonkian term, translates to this premier group, a nod to the mythological heritage of the Lenape people.
What is "First People" or "First Speakers?"
Christopher Gist's greatest claim to fame may have been lifeguard, as he is remembered for pulling future President Washington from this icy river, itself an Ohio tributary.
What is the Allegheny?
While his former BFF founded Marlinton, this pioneer founded Rainelle after their friendship went kaput.
Who was Stephen Sewell?
This surveyor extended the Mason-Dixon Line several miles west, ultimately placing Pittsburgh into Pennsylvania.
Who was Andrew Ellicott?
Marlinton, Kingwood and Elkins are three county seats located in this mountainous geographic region.
What are the Allegheny Highlands?
Of the four Adena sites studied in this class, this is the only one that is no longer viewable outside of textbooks today.
What is Bens Run?
The Shawnee were suspected of raiding this German frontier settlement in late July, 1755.
What was Drapers Meadow?
His accounts of the 1803 Lewis and Clark Expedition were published well in advance of William Clark's better known edition.
Joist Hite's 100,000-acre land claim ran afoul of this earlier grant, resulting in a long legal battle in the English courts.
What was the Fairfax charter?