Fincastle
Fincastle
FINCASTLE. One of the titles of Lord Dunmore, the name of the fort at Wheeling, and the name of a village on the James River that previously had been called Botetourt Court House. Fincastle County included what became the southern part of West Virginia and the adjacent portion of Virginia.
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