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With a commanding view of the area below, present-day Fort Hill was used by both Civil War armies. The Confederate push into the Kanawha Valley in 1862 relied on artillery on the heights, and Union troops created a more permanent presence in 1863, naming the battlements after General Eliakim P. Scammon, Third Division, Department of West Virginia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
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Charleston, West Virginia · United States
