Western People — Bitter final weeks of Civil War left a dark legacy in Mayo
FRANK FAGAN recounts the killing of two Mayo Republicans in separate events in March 1923 as the Civil War reached a terrible denouement
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FRANK FAGAN recounts the killing of two Mayo Republicans in separate events in March 1923 as the Civil War reached a terrible denouement
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Archaeological work conducted in 1996–1997 determined that a Patawomeck settlement on Potomac Creek, where the creek empties into the Potomac River at Marlboro Point, dates to around AD 1300. The Algonquian-speakers likely intruded on the area from the north and lived behind a palisade designed to protect them from various warring groups. By 1607, when the first English colonists arrived at Jamestown, the Patawomeck lived north of Accokeek Creek on the south bank of the Potomac River. Their principal town, surrounded by a palisade, was Patawomeck. Based on accounts published in 1612 and 162...