X-Nico

unusual facts about Cacapon


Cacapon

Cacapon Mountain is a Ridge-and-valley Appalachians mountain in Morgan and Hampshire Counties, West Virginia


Battle of the Trough

That spring of 1756, a pair of Indians, a remnant of a party recently defeated (along with their French captain) by a Capt. Jeremiah Smith at the head of the Capon (Cacapon) River, were passing through the upper South Branch (somewhere near the present site of Cabins, West Virginia) when they encountered two white women.

Bubbling Spring, West Virginia

Bubbling Spring is situated on Cacapon River Road (West Virginia Secondary Route 14) along the Cacapon River south of Capon Bridge and north of Hooks Mills.

Cacapon Mountain

From its southern point, Cacapon Mountain rises from the landscape north of Bloomery in northeastern Hampshire County.

Creekvale, West Virginia

Creekvale is located southeast of Levels along the Little Cacapon River on Little Cacapon-Levels Road (West Virginia Secondary Route 3/3).

Hanging Rock, West Virginia

Morgan managed to remain in his saddle and escaped with neck and mouth wounds towards Fort Edwards on the Cacapon River near Capon Bridge.

Largent, West Virginia

A bridge over the Cacapon River is part of Cacapon Road and leads to the town of Woodrow.

Little Cacapon Mountain

It spans from the Frenchburg area, where it is joined by Chestnut Oak Ridge, to the Slanesville Pike where Crooked Run forms a gap between Little Cacapon Mountain and Queens Ridge near Higginsville.

Little Cacapon, West Virginia

The 54th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment's Company K, under the leadership of Captain Edmond R. Newhard, was assigned to guard duty at the Baltimore and Ohio's railroad bridge over the Little Cacapon until January 1863.

The Devil's Nose

From its southern end near Neals Run on Johnsons Hollow, The Nose rises from the landscape curving along a bend in the Little Cacapon River.


see also