Fishing through history at Ferry Hill, Pack Horse Ford, and long-gone Bridgeport

The stone piers stand like ghosts. Ghosts keeping watch over the mostly unplanned history that literally flooded the Potomac River at Shepherdstown. Ghosts of Native Americans that once built a fishing weir at what is now known as Pack Horse Ford or Boteler’s Ford, less than a mile or so east of the town limits.

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