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In 1750 the Ohio Company of Virginia erected on this site a fortified storehouse known as Fort Ohio or the New Store. It served as protection and as the center of commerce for this area, called Wills Creek until 1755, when Fort Cumberland, across the Potomac River in Maryland, was completed.
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Ridgeley, West Virginia · United States
