Bulltown/Bulltown Battle

Important point in plan of Washington to establish water transportation to West. Salt was made here as early as 1792. Attack by whites in 1772 upon Captain Bull's Indian village here was among the causes of Dunmore's War.

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On October 13, 1863, a force of 400 Union troops under Captain W. H. Mattingly, entrenched on the hills to the northeast, repulsed attack of Confederate forces under Colonel W. L. Jackson. Jackson retreated after some loss into Pocahontas County.