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authorized to conduct a lottery to fund the construction of a toll bridge across Cheat River near
Dunkard's Bottom. Concerned included Michael Kern, John Steally, Augustus Werninger, Ralph Barkshire, and William N. Jarrett. The Assembly also authorized in 1806 the construction of mill dams across the Monongahela River, Cheat River,
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Cheat Fest, as of 2024, has been held on the first weekend of May for 30 years, and features local and regional artists, vendors, and musicians/bands over Friday and
Saturday. Past artists who have performed at the festival grounds includes The Larry Keel Experience, Vince Herman, Fletcher’s Grove,
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resulted in general peace along the frontiers, had been pretty generally adhered to by all the savage tribes. The peace, however, which had for nine years blessed and fostered the frontier settlements, was suddenly broken by the murder of several friendly
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along its banks (possibly a misidentification of frost-killed wheat), or (3) deceptively deep sections containing whirlpools that presumably "cheated" men of their lives by drowning them. None of these theories have strong documentary support, but the latter is the most often cited.
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Virginia. The Cheat River country remained part of Monongalia County until 1791 when that county was divided into a smaller Monongalia County and
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Festival, a whitewater race called the Cheat River Massacre-ence takes place in the 10-mile (16 km) Cheat River Canyon on the Friday of that weekend. Unlike the overwhelming majority of
874:, with whom they were engaged in hostilities.) According to George W. Atkinson (1876), "From 1765 to 1774 there were comparatively few attacks made upon the white colonists by the Indians. The
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Donna the
Buffalo, and many other regional and national musicians. A local music festival, Groovin’ With the Grove, is also held annually at the Cheat River Festival grounds.
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Cheat rivers. This unfortunate aggression on the part of these white men gave rise to a general raid by the
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Monongahela. (The party was forced to stop a few miles west at
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1493:Champe Rocks
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372:Point Marion
119:Shavers Fork
74:Pennsylvania
1712:Olson Tower
1707:Bickle Knob
1686:Summit Lake
1604:Laurel Fork
1569:Cheat River
1533:Spruce Knob
1518:River Knobs
1488:Bickle Knob
1478:Barton Knob
1307:October 26,
963:Camp Dawson
817:Eleat River
811:Cheal River
808:Achsinhanac
786:cheat grass
694:and by the
635:in eastern
625:Cheat River
570:Tributaries
548:Progression
523:Parsons, WV
408: /
327: /
246: /
163: /
22:Cheat River
1794:Categories
1594:Glady Fork
1559:Black Fork
1104:References
1053:whitewater
1003:, notably
978:Rowlesburg
969:1985 flood
748:Cheat Lake
724:Rowlesburg
688:Black Fork
680:confluence
649:Ohio River
647:. Via the
439:Basin size
396:79°54′08″W
393:39°44′34″N
315:79°40′51″W
312:39°07′01″N
234:79°37′45″W
231:39°04′20″N
198:Black Fork
194:2nd source
151:79°59′09″W
148:38°23′50″N
96:Preston WV
88:Fayette PA
1584:Elk River
1001:pollution
984:Pollution
947:in 1863.
938:West Fork
936:, or the
678:, by the
670:Geography
656:watershed
629:tributary
611:Elsey Run
509:Discharge
451:Discharge
210:Hendricks
100:Tucker WV
1579:Dry Fork
1231:, pg 36.
1225:New York
1219:(1941),
1183:Archived
1087:See also
1056:kayaking
1037:Albright
974:Albright
888:Virginia
868:Iroquois
866:. Their
728:Albright
55:Location
37:Overlook
1554:Big Run
1060:rafting
929:ferries
825:History
720:Preston
643:in the
631:of the
603:Dry Run
291:Parsons
60:Country
872:Lenape
782:French
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704:Laurel
702:, and
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355:Mouth
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