Editing Marshall County, West Virginia (section)

===Prehistory===
[[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] occupied the area along the narrows of the [[Ohio River]] by 250 BCE and the [[Adena culture]] constructed the [[Grave Creek Mound]] by 100 B.C.E., which was the highest conical burial mound in what came to be the United States, with only that in [[Miamisburg, Ohio]] of even comparable size.<ref>Marshall County Historical Society, History of Marshall County, West Virginia 1984 (third printing 1989) pp. 6, 8.</ref>
However, by the 18th century the area contained no permanent settlements. Tribes which hunted, foraged and made war in the area by that time included the [[Algonquian languages|Algonquian language]] speaking [[Delaware Nation|Delaware]], [[Odawa people|Ottawa]], [[Miami people|Miami]] and [[Shawnee]], and the [[Iroquoian language]] speaking [[Cherokee]], [[Iroquois]], [[Mingo]], [[Mohawk people|Mohawk]], [[Wyandot people|Wyandot/Huron]] and [[Seneca people|Seneca]]. 

Two major trails intersected in what would become Marshall County. One was a major roughly north–south path sometimes known as the [[Great Indian Warpath]] (other names included the "Great Catawba War Path", "Cherokee Path" or "Tennessee Path") which ran along the [[Great Appalachian Valley]] from what became [[Olean, New York]] through [[Uniontown, Pennsylvania]] and then split after crossing the Ohio River, such that various branches (in what became West Virginia) reached the [[Kanawha River]] or the [[Cheat River]] before proceeding southwest to Kentucky and Tennessee, or southeast toward the Carolinas and/or Alabama. Another major trail, more distinct in this area and proceeding east–west, was sometimes known as Braddock's Road or [[Nemacolin's Path]] after the native chieftain and trailblazer who assisted General Braddock and George Washington during their unsuccessful march through the [[Cumberland Narrows]] pass in the Appalachian Mountains seeking to capture [[Fort Duquesne]] in 1755. In 1811 this path was developed through Marshall County into the [[National Road]] as discussed below.