Fort Ashby is located in Patterson Creek Valley, a fertile and protected valley teeming with wildlife even today. Thousands and...

This letter reveals much, not only about Captain Ashby's wife Jane and how word spread quickly even back in the day, but about...

This letter, written on October 23, 1755, instructs Captain Ashby to send half his men to the site of what will become their Fort on...

Captain Ashby wrote the following letter to Lt. Colonel VanMeter and Captain Waggoner at Fort Cumberland, recounting how Indians on April...

The letter which follows is from Colonel George Washington, ordering construction of the first two forts of a chain of forts to be built,...

The French and Indian war was a conflict between Britain and France, fought in North America over disputed territory. Indian nations...