Shirtman

Shirtman. . , Conditions of living a life in the woods created men who gave up wearing breeches. They instead wore loose hunting shirts of linsey woolsey, coarse linen, or dressed deerskins, increased length of their leggings and fastened them to their belts by strings: Deerskin moccasins completed the outfit. From a belt hung a tomahawk and a scalping knife even though they relied on their rifle even though unreliable., This region has a favorable landscape for livestock raising, more so than some of our surrounding counties and has always been considered one of the only three grazing counties in the State of West Virginia., One such "Shirtman” was Thomas Hughes who accompanied Pringle's band of settlers to Buckhannon, in 1769. His inordinate passion for sport and adventure lured him to the area and was the same person who hastened to the rescue of the Flesher family when they were attacked by Native Americans in 1784, near where this sign now stands.