on the beautiful Cacapon River
Capon Bridge Founder's Day
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wonderful community. Mr. Bailes's Middle School pages Maps to get you to Capon Bridge Fort Edwards, a French and Indian War Fort Historic Hampshire County West Virginia's Oldest County Hampshire County's 250th Birthday Web Archive Old Photographs of Capon Bridge Capon Valley History
In case you are wondering about the spelling of our town and its river, the River is the Cacapon River. In colonial times it was spelled various ways including among others: Cacapehon and Cape Capon. The town is Capon Bridge leaving off the first sylable as does Capon Springs and Capon Valley. The derivation of the name is questionable; our major county history by Maxwell & Swisher says it may have come from an Indian word for "medicine water" prompted by the various springs along the river. |
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