FORT ASHBY, WEST VIRGINIA
A village and post office of Patterson's
Creek, Frankfort District, Mineral County WV.
Lewis in 1906 stated that Frankfort, Hampshire County, now Alaska, in Mineral
County, was established by legislative enactment in December 1787.
Fort Ashby was first known as Frankford, and that later, because of the fort
located there, became Frankfort. The latter name caused a postal conflict, and
the Post Office Dept. renamed it Alaska.
The present designation, Fort Ashby, is from a stockade by that name which
stood in early days upon the east bank of Patterson's Creek. The fort was
erected in 1755 by order of George Washington, and in 1756 Captain John Ashby
reached this fort safely in a remarkable escape from the Indians.
FORT ASHBY
FROM FRONTIER FORTS ALONG THE
POTOMAC AND ITS TRIBUTARIES
BY WILLIAM H. ANSEL