Prior to her death 200 years ago this week, "Mad" Anne Bailey cast a giant shadow across the western fringe of the Virginia frontier as a legendary scout and long-distance messenger during an era of bloodshed between European settlers and Native Americans.

It was an unlikely role for a woman who was born, raised and schooled in Liverpool, England, before immigrating to Virginia in 1761 at age 19 — soon after the deaths of her parents — to live near family friends who had settled several years earlier in the Staunton area. News

Commemorating 250th Battle of Point Pleasant anniversary, lantern given to officials

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Green Bank fort site continues to yield clues about Revolutionary War garrison life

By Rick Steelhammer rsteelhammer@hdmediallc.com

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