Blennerhassett Island
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title:
Blennerhassett Island
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Blennerhassett Island is an island on the Ohio River below the mouth of the Little Kanawha River, near Parkersburg in Wood County, West Virginia, United States. Historically, Blennerhassett Island was occupied by Native Americans. Nemacolin, chief of the Delaware Nation, made it his last home, dying in 1767. European Americans knew it as Backus Island, named for Elijah Backus, who purchased it in 1792 in the wave of westward settlement following the American Revolutionary War. In 1798, Harman Bl
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Island in the Ohio River in West Virginia, United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blennerhassett_Island
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2021-02-07T07:52:30Z
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