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Also known as: Anglin’s Ford, Booths Ferry
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Philippi, city, seat (1844) of Barbour county, northeastern West Virginia, U.S. It lies in the Tygart Valley River valley, about 13 miles (21 km) south of Grafton. Settled in 1780, it was early called Anglin’s Ford and then Booths Ferry until it was chartered in 1844 and named for Philip Pendleton Barbour, associate justice (1836–41) of the U.S. Supreme Court. Philippi is known primarily as the site of an important early battle of the American Civil War. Fought on June 3, 1861, the engagement was initiated by Union troops who, led by Colonel B.F. Kelley, were attempting to protect the ...(100 of 272 words)

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