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| | Welcome to Hacker's Creek Pioneer Descendants, Inc. |
 | | John Hacker, a Stafford County,Virginia, native who came with the first party of men to settle at present-day Buckhannon, Upshur County, West Virginia. |
 | | Finding that land he desired at Buckhannon had already been claimed by Samuel Pringle, an earlier sojourner in the region, he crossed the Buckhannon Mountain and selected four hundred acres on a tributary of the Muddy River, as the West Fork of the Monongahela River was then called. |
 | | The society's original purpose was to preserve the history and genealogy of the Hacker's Creek watershed in Lewis and Upshur counties; a few years later, the society elected to expand their area of interest and influence to include the entire Central West Virginia region. |
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