Talk:Fort Van Meter (Hampshire County, West Virginia)

Serious confusion
There is serious confusion in this article.

The text of the article currently describes Fort Pleasant (also called Fort Van Meter) at Old Fields in northern Hardy County. The National Register of Historic Places designates it as follows:
 * Fort Pleasant (Isaac Van Meter House), N of Moorefield, NRHP# 73001903, Listed, 7/16/73

Official info on this Hardy County site can be found here.

But there is a new (2009) NRHP historic site listing just south of Romney in Hampshire County:
 * Fort Van Meter, River Rd., Romney vicinity, NRHP# 09001191, Listed, 12/30/09

For sure the historic fort (Pleasant, Van Meter, Town, etc) involved in the 1756 Battle of the Trough is the one in northern Hardy County at Old Fields. But the Hampshire County "Fort Van Meter" near Romney is listed in the Federal Register & other places & appears to be an authentic new NRHP site first listed in 2009. What is it?? I cannot find any NRHP nomination form for it anywhere online, including at the NRHP/NPS website.

Very confusing. Any help would be appreciated. Valerius Tygart (talk) 15:26, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Serious confusion resolved
Clarification, finally, in today's edits. Valerius Tygart (talk) 13:00, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

Can someone more knowledgeable than myself, please start articles on the Van Meter settler family?
Can someone more knowledgeable than myself, please start articles on the Van Meter settler family?

These guys were evidently pretty important, associate with Jost Hite, also evidently settled a lot of people including themselves, all up and down the Opequon Creek which is one of the rather major waterways in the region. (Though ntot navigable it is a significant spring-fed all-year water source, and may be a very old watercourse.)

Look through the search facility, and you will see "van Meter" and "van Metre" all over wikipedia and through history resources all over the internet and they may have been leaders or fore-runners in one of the largest popular migrations in US settlement history (Germanic, into the Shenandoah and Appalachians) but there is no single article about any of them.

I might try to take it on but it will be months if not years, if ever. Thardman22 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 23:36, 27 March 2016 (UTC)