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1. Name

historic ~ a m s j a ~ e r - ~ y s o n q F a r m

and or common O ld Gamsjager P lace

2. Location County Route 6 6

street & number L i t t l e Buck Run [Cove D i s t r i c t ] - not for publication

citv, town St. C l a r a - vicinity of

state West Virg in ia code 5 4 county Doddridge code 0 1 7

3. Classification Category Ownership Status - district - public - occupied 2 building(s) private - unoccupied - structure - both -x-. work in progress - site Public Acquisition Accessible - object NLA in process X yes: restricted

&!A being considered yes: unrestricted - no

Present Use - agriculture - commercial - educational - entertainment - government - industrial - military

- museum - park

private residence - religious - scientific - transportation - other:

4. Owner of Property ' L name Mr add Mrs. ~ i l l i a m S. Wysong - ,

street 8 number 7 120 M e r r i m a c D r i v e ,.

citv, town M c L e a n - vicinitv of state V i ra in ia 22 10 1

5. Location of Legal Descri~tion courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. Doddr idge Coun ty Courthouse

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city,town W e s t u n i o n state West V i rg in ia

6. Representation in Existing Surveys title N/ A has this property been determined eligible? - yes -x- no

date - federal state - countv local

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Description

Condition Check one Check one -- excellent __ deteriorated X unaltered X or~ginal site X good - ruins - altered - moved date N/A _ - - - _ - _ -- _.

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Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance

The appearance o f the Gamsjager-Wysong house has changed l i t t l e since i t s complet ion in 1906 b y owner John Gamsjager and local carpenter Frank Hinter. This two-story. German-style farmhouse is rectangular i n shape. w i t h a two-story wing a t the rear [original constructionl, set on a foundat ion of cu t sandstone and covered w i t h German siding. The steeply-pitched roof was or ig inal ly covered w i t h square and hexagonal slate shingles. replaced a decade or so ago w i t h asphalt shingles. There is a cent ra l chimney, bu i l t of l imestone blocks. The stones fo r the foundat ion were quarried f r o m the hi l lside behind the house. and the indentation in the h i l l where the stone was removed can s t i l l be seen.

The three-bay facade is p ierced by a double entrance on both f loors which is f lanked i n t u rn by double one-over-one-light windows. The windows are set in molded surrounds w i t h narrow corn ice heads set w i t h corner bulls' eye blocks and separated by a wide mul l ion which is also topped by a bulls' eye block. The doorways on both upper and lower f loors each consist of t w o separate single doors div ided by a wide mul l ion-sty le s t r ip and surmounted by a continuous cornice head w i t h pro ject ing bulls' eye corner blocks. As in the window design. the door mul l ion is also topped by a bulls' eye block. The original panelled doors are s t i l l i n place. as are the original screen doors.

The two- t ie r porch or por t i co consists of slender, lathe-turned wooden columns decorated w i t h scrol l-sawn brackets and connected by a wooden ra i l ing w i t h scroll-sawn balusters on the upper story: the ra i l i ng on the f i r s t story. now missing. original ly matched that o f the upper story. The f loors o f the porch are separated by a simple, unadorned frieze: a narrower f r ieze edged by rows o f mold ing divides the second story f r o m the tympaneum. which is faced w i t h the same German siding as the rest o f the house. The gable roo f o f the por t ico is decorated w i t h a p la in f r i eze and wide, thrust ing cornice and rakeboard, original ly enhanced w i t h a scroll-sawn barge- board (now missing1 which the present owners plan t o replace. using old photographs as a guide.

The roo f is also edged w i t h a wide, plain f r ieze below a thrusting corncie supported by scrol l- sawn corner brackets. Below the gable ends on each side of the house is a small. square a t t i c vent set w i t h a c i rcu lar wooden design cu t out in a f lo ra l pattern.

A t the center rear is a two-s tory wing, par t of the original construction, which contains the k i t chen on the f i r s t f loor and a bedroom on the second floor. A two-story gallery or veranda runs along each side o f the wing, s imi lar i n s ty le t o the f ron t port icobutconstructed w i t h plainer mater ia ls: i. e., sol id ra ther than openwork brackets, simple square columns. a less elaborate rai l ing, now par t ia l l y missing. On the east side the veranda is par t ia l ly enclosed on both stor ies a t the rear.

The in te r io r plan o f the house is a simple two-over- two room arrangement around a cent ra l f ireplace, w i t h the above ment ioned rear wing adding an ext ra room on each floor. Unl ike the classic Pennsylvania "I" house. however, the hal lway and staircase are located a t the rear of the ma in section, w i t h the s ta i rway r is ing i n a direct ion paral lel to the f ron t wal l of the house. s imi lar t o the plan o f a t yp ica l New England farmhouse.

The ce l lar house i s located only a few steps f rom the back door of the kitchen. Bu i l t pa r t l y in to t he side o f a hill. it is constructed of local stone [ lower port ion] and weatherboard over wood f raming [upper port ionl. The roo f is corrugated metal. The upper por t ion has been converted - in to temporary l iv ing space by the present owners. and w i l l eventually become a guest house a f te r the rehabi l i ta t ion o f the ma in hosue is completed.

The barn remains v i r tua l l y unchanged f r o m i t s original la te Igth-century appearance. The large f r ame bui ld ing is constructed on a one-story-high foundation o f cu t sandstone block. bu i l t pa r t ia l l y i n t o the side o f a h i l l in what has come t o be known as a typical German "bankw barn style. The ma in sect ion of the barn is rectangular, t w o stories in height. w i t h German siding over f rame const ruct ion and a gable roo f extending in to a one-story shedlike section across the ent i re rear. It is bel ieved t o pre-date the construct ion of the house.

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8 . Significance

Period prehistor~c

_ - 1400-1499 1500-1 599 1600-1699

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Areas of Significancecheck and justify below archeology-prehistoric community planning . landscape architecture _ religion

. archeology-historic conservation . -. law - science

_ agriculture -. economics _ . literature _ sculpture

X. architecture . _ education -. military _- . socialt . . art engineering --- music humanitarian - commerce x. exploration settlement philosophy -- theater .. - communications . . . industry -x politi~s~government transportation

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Statement of Significance (in one paragraph)

The Gamsjager-Wysong farm, w i t h i t s lgth-century barn and cel lar house and early 20th century house, is perhaps the only remaining in tac t representation o f St. C lara community i n i t s heyday. St. C lara i t se l f was unique i n a number of ways. chief o f which lay in i t s founding as one of the few del iberate a t tempts a t colonization in Western Virginia, and i t s promot ion by, as wel l as homeplace of, Joseph H. Diss Debar, the state's f i r s t Commissioner of Immigrat ion. Debar. a Frenchman by bir th, became act ive in the development of early s ta te legislation, is recognized as the fa ther of the movement t o establish a geological survey - so important i n a s ta te w i t h such an abundance of natural resources - and was the a r t i s t who designed the West Virginia State Seal. H is colony o f St. C lara was also remarkable as a German sett lement which a t t rac ted both Catholics and Lutherans. This German heritage is s t i l l notable today. par t icu lar ly in the f am i l y names and the sty le of architecture. the l a t t e r apt ly demonstrated i n the design of the Gamsjager-Wysong house. which exhibits the strong

German inf luence so typ ica l i n the ru ra l farmhouse found throughout the region o f northcentral West Virginia, eastern Ohio, western Virginia. and Pennsylvania.

Explanatory Notes

The set t lement tha t la ter became St. C lara community was established i n the la te 1840's by Joseph H. Diss Debar. a na t i ve of Strasbourg i n French Alsace. the son o f the estate manager f o r Cardinal Prince de Rohan. He was educated a t schools in Strasbourg, Colmar. Muhlhausen. and Paris, and in 1842 ar r ived in Boston on board the Cunard steamer Br i t tania. H is shipmate -- on the crossing was Charles Dickens. whose por t ra i t Debar painted while en route t o America.

In the 1840's and '50's much o f what was t o become West Virginia was owned and exploited by large land companies and syndicates - rea l estate was cheap, taxes were low. and landowners could rea l ize substantial p ro f i t s on the i r holdings. One major holding covering several counties in the no r t h central pa r t of the s ta te was known as the Swan lands. acquired by James Swan o f Boston before 18OS and compris ing 1,079,724 acres of then-unappropriated lands purchased by Swan f o r 2 0 an acre. John Peter Dumas o f Paris, named trustee for the estate upon Swan's death i n 1831, h i red Diss Debar i n 1846 as agent f o r 10,000-acre t rac t on Cove Creek in newly-created Doddridge County. Virginia.

A rmed w i t h maps of the property and promot ional circulars, Debar began by o f fer ing each fami l y who set t led on Cove Creek 40 acres of land a t no charge. concentrat ing on the large numbers o f German immigrants who were ar r iv ing dai ly a t Castle Garden i n the mid-1800's. Unfortunately. Debar's maps showed the Cove Creek area as easily accessible. indicat ing the Hughes R iver as navigable and a ra i l road running through the county when the nearest ra i l l ine was actua l ly located a t Parkersburg. The original set t lers were forced t o walk the remaining 50 mi les t o Cove Creek. and of the f i r s t group o f German colonists to ar r ive in St. Clara. only three fami l ies chose t o stay. p r imar i l y because they lacked the funds t o relocate: The fami l ies of Jacob Ruppert. Heinr ich Schmidt. and He in r i ch Schafer.

As a resu l t o f this imbroglio. Debar t r i ed a d i f fe ren t approach. of fer ing 150-acre t rac ts fo r $1.50 per acre. eventually sel l ing 19.209 acres t o 1 1 1 purchasers and gaining another 55 fami l ies for h is new colony of St. Clara. named f o r Debar's f i r s t wife. C lara Levassour, of Cincinnati. whose fa ther owned 20.000 acres o f the Swan lands. The second wave o f immigrants consisted

9. Major Bibliographical References

SEE ATTACHED CONTINUATION SHHET

10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property approxm *2 acres

Quadrangle name Vadis* W- Va.

UT M References

Quadrangle scale 1 :24*000

Zone Easting Northing

Verbal boundary descr ip t ion and just i f icat ion

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L is t a l l s ta tes a n d count ies for propert ies overlapping state or county boundaries

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name~title Margo Staf ford

organization Ralph Pedersen, A.I.A. Arch i tect date January 10. 1986

street & number 35 1 Washington Avenue/P. 0. Box 1885 -

telephone (3041 624-9298

city or town Clarksburg state West Virginia 26301

12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is:

- national X- state - local

As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89- 665), 1 hereby nominate this property for Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures

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Continuation sheet S ign i f i cance Item number 8 Pane 2

8. Sign i f i cance (cont.1

o f Kreyenbuhls, Wineburgs, Vanberts. Det termans, and Alberts. and a r r i v e d around 1850 f r o m b o t h Germany and o the r p a r t s o f t h e U n i t e d States. A t h i r d wave i n t h e 1860's added the names o f Krenn, Rastle. H in te r . and Gamsjager t o the colony. Un l i ke many land agents. Debar h imsel f se t t l ed i n h is colony. bu i l d ing a house i n 1852 a t the mouth o f Carder C a m p Run on Cove Creek. B y 1858 St. C la ra had i t s o w n post o f f i ce . located i n Debar's home w i t h Debar as the f i r s t post- master . The house has s ince been demol ished and the proper ty is now known as the Joseph H i n t e r fa rm. A n ea r l y ske tch o f Debar 's St. C l a r a home, made b y Debar himself, is i n the possession o f t he S ta te A rch i ves a t t he D e p a r t m e r t o f Cu l tu re and H i s t o r y i n Charleston. Un fo r tuna te l y , there i s n o longer any dwel l ing s t i l l standing i n the s ta te wh ich was d i r e c t l y associated w i t h Diss Debar : t he house i n Parkersburg where he resided b r i e f l y dur ing his f i r s t mar r i age was demol ished over a cen tu ry ago t o make way fo r t he Judge John J. Jackson residence.

Joseph Diss Debar i s bes t remembered as the designer o f the West V i rg in ia S ta te Seal. One o f t he f i r s t se t t l e rs i n St. Clara. i n fac t . and one o f Debar's hunt ing companions. He in r i ch Schmidt. served as a model f o r t h e seal. and can also be seen i n Debar's sketch e n t i t l e d "Going t o H u n t on Tanner's Fork," now also p a r t o f t he S ta te Arch ives col lect ion. I n addit ion. Debar was Doddr idge County 's f i r s t representa t ive t o t h e new ly c rea ted West Virg in ia Legis lature. the only fore ign-born de legate t o serve i n t h a t body. I n 1864 he was appointed as the state's f i r s t Commissioner o f Immig ra t i on : dur ing his tenure he produced the only handbook fo r i m m i g r a n t s t o be publ ished i n West Virginia, p r i n ted i n English. German. and Swedish. H e was also one o f t he f i r s t advocates o f t he movement t o establ ish a geological survey i n the state. wh ich eventua l ly came t o f ru i t ion . and i n 1867 produced, w i t h h is own personal funds, West Virginia's e n t r y i n the Par is Exposition, wh ich was awarded t h e bronze medal f o r " f i rs t -qua l i ty lubr ica t ing pe t ro leum and West V i rg in ia oils."

Debar was also responsible f o r t he establ ishment o f another colony i n West Virginia, th is t i m e a se t t l emen t o f Germans and Swiss a t H e l v e t i a i n Randolph County. A t h i r d colony. founded e n t i r e l y b y German Cathol ics. was establ ished independently i n Marshal l Coun ty soon a f t e r colonists began a r r i v i n g i n St. Clara. a l though Debar had no connect ion w i t h the Marshal l County se t t lement . known as St.Joseph. I n the mid-1Sth century, emigra t ion was ac t i ve l y encouraged b y the governments o f m a n y o f t he German states, due i n pa r t t o t h e fam ine which swept Europe i n the 1840's and also in p a r t t o wha t is known as the Revo lu t ion o f 1848. B o t h government and p r i v a t e agencies i n Germany. Austr ia. and Swi tzer land provided funds t o assist emigrants, and several German s ta tes and p r inc ipa l i t i es undertook a systemat ic campaign t o r i d themselves o f p o l i t i c a l offenders. Havre. one o f t h e m a i n European por ts of embarkat ion. passed 30.000 Germans through i t s gates annual ly i n the m idd le years o f the 1 Sth century. mos t o f t h e m bound f o r America.

Whi le the re were m a n y German se t t l e rs and many German communi t ies i n Western V i rg in ia be fo re 1840 (pa r t i cu la r l y a t Wheeling. wh ich throughout much o f the 19th century had the largest - concen t ra t i on o f Germans i n the state]. St. C l a r a was the f i r s t de l ibera te e f f o r t t o r e c r u i t German i m m i g r a n t s and t o establ ish an exclusively German set t lement i n the area t h a t was t o become West Virginia. While o the r s ta tes made a concerted, wel l - f inanced a t t e m p t t o a t t r a c t spec i f i c e thn i c groups. the V i rg in ia and la te r West V i rg in ia legislatures could never be in teres ted i n funding such e f fo r ts . o r i n j o in ing w i t h a land associat ion or ra i l road company t o do so. as happened i n o the r states. W i t h the excep t ion o f Joseph H. Diss Debar and. t o an ex tent . Isaac Hogue. a Moundsv i l le a t to rney who a c t e d f i r s t as agent f o r the C loud lands and l a t e r on his own behal f i n a t t r a c t i n g German se t t l e rs t o St. Joseph Se t t l emen t i n Marshal l County. there was no a c t i v e a t t e m p t t o r e c r u i t immigrants , German or otherwise. t o West V i rg in ia colonies.

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Continuation sheet Significance Item number 8

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The Gamsjager fami l y ar r ived i n St. C lara f r om Bad Goisern, Austria. w i t h the th i rd wave of set t le rs i n the mid-1860%. when Mathias Garnsjager. a wheelwright, immigrated t o St. C la ra Colony w i t h l i t t l e more t o his name than the tools of his trade. including a cross-cut saw. In 1867 Gamsjager purchased f r o m Debar and his w i fe a 132-acre t r ac t known as the Ruckles f a r m where he erected a small log house. La te r i n the century his son John added to the original acreage and eventual ly acquired his father's f a rm on which he erected the present two-story farmhouse i n 1903-06. In addi t ion t o running the fami l y farm, John Gamsjager ran a general s tore i n the communi ty and owned a planing and gr ist mi l l . located a few hundred yards f r om the house and s t i l l pa r t ia l l y standing, although i n a severely deter iorated condition. The land f i r s t purchased by Mathias Gamsjager in 1867 and the house bu i l t by his son are s t i l l i n the Gamsjager fami ly, now owned by a great-granddaughter of Mathias and his w i f e Theresia Krenn.

St. C lara in i t s ear ly days was a community whose residents existed p r imar i l y by subsistence farming. re ly ing on fami l i a r methods o f small grain and row crop producation not necessarily sui ted t o the rugged ter ra in o f Doddridge County. Eventual ly the sett lers made the transi t ion t o pastureland and l ivestock farming. to which the boom i n natural resource exploi tat ion i n the l a t t e r ha l f of the 1Sth century brought added income and economic prosperity t o the farmers of St. Clara. It was this turn-of- the-century prosperity tha t enabled John Gamsjager t o expand his business interests and bui ld his fami ly a larger. more comfor tab le house. The lumber for the house, in fact , was cut f r o m t imber on the f a rm and sawn in to board a t the nearby sawmil l . The stones fo r the nat ive sandstone foundation were quarried f r om the h i l l behind the house. as were the foundat ion stones fo r the substantial barn and the cel lar house. The barn is a classic example of a German "bank" barn. bu i l t i n to the side of a h i l l w i t h entrances on two levels. and covered w i t h German siding. Bo th barn and cel lar house are believed to have been erected some years ear l ie r than the house. The property outside the nominated acreage also contains an old log c r i b i n di lapidated condition, the above-mentioned mi l l . also badly deteriorated. and a second barn some distance f r o m the house/cellar house/frame barn core. The original Gamsjager log house. located d i rec t l y west o f the two-story f rame house, has been demolished.

The house bu i l t by John Gamsjager is representative o f a d is t inc t ive arch i tec tura l s ty le f i r s t developed i n Pennsylvania and Virginia by German settlers, a tenaciously popular sty le throughout the region which changed l i t t l e during i t s long tenure. The sty le was inf luenced in i t s development by the her i tage of the German immigrants who favored it. adapting and combining European and Amer ican elements t o create the d is t inc t ive regional design, a var iat ion on the ear l ier Colonial "I" house. While many o f the houses in St. Clara colony were bu i l t i n th is style, the Gamsjager house exhibi ts a var ie ty o f deta i l typical ly found only on later buildings u t i l i z ing the style. showing i t a t the height of i t s development before i t began to be displaced in popular con- s t ruc t ion by the 20th century Bungalow s ty le and, later, "housing development ranch" styles. - The Gamsjager house is also one o f the few original homes in the community which has no t undergone radical ex ter ior a l terat ion: I t has not suffered f r om the application of v inyl siding nor f r om the removal o f i t s scroll-sawn woodwork and turned balusters.

The Gamsjager-Wysong house. then. is s igni f icant arch i tec tura l ly as an in tac t representation i n the cu lminat ive f o r m of a d is t inc t ive vernacular sty le developed i n th is country by German immigrants and spread throughout what is now Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio. This par t icu lar t ype of ru ra l farmhouse enjoyed an extended per iod of popularity, appearing f i r s t in the 18th centcry and reaching i t s peak i n the later years of the 19th century un t i l i t was edged out by the newer 20th century styles designed fo r the smaller nuclear fami l ies of a post-war



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Amer ica ra ther than f o r the large extended fami l ies necessary i n what had previously been a p r imar i l y agrar ian society.

Histor ical ly, the Gamsjager-Wysong house is probably the most in tac t remaining example o f St. C la ra communi ty a t the height o f i t s product iv i ty and prosperity. The sett lement i tse l f is an impor tan t par t o f West Virginia's past. not only fo r i t s posi t ion as the f i r s t known German colony t o be successfully established in Western Virginia by the e f f o r t s of a land agent, but f o r i t s d i rec t association w i t h t ha t agent. Joseph H. Diss Debar, the designer of the West Virginia State Seal, and as the s i te of Debar's home throughout most o f his period of residence in the state. The Gamsjager-Wysong house represents the enduring legacy of the German inf luence on West Virginia's cu l tura l and physical her i tage and the impact of a single Frenchman on the state's history through his work dur ing i t s early. format ive years.


Continuation sheet Bib l ioarapnical References Item number 9 Page 5

9. M a j o r Bib l iographicat References

Comet t i , El izabeth, "Swiss Immig ra t ion t o West Virginia. 1864- 1884: A Case Study." Mississippi Val ley H is to r i ca l Review. Volume XLVII. Number L June 1960.

Doddr idge County Deed Books, Doddridge County Courthouse, West Union, West Virginia.

Earl, Jesse A., "The L i f e of Joseph H. Diss Debar and H i s Reminiscences o f Ooddr idge County," West V i rg in ia H is tory , Volume 28, Number 3. A p r i l 1967.

Gamsjager F a m i l y Bible, Cour tesy of Hazel Wysong.

Gamsjager, Mathias, Na tu ra l i za t ion Papers. Courtesy of Haze l Wysong.

--- , H is to ry o f Doddr idge County, West Virginia. Taylor Publishing Company. Dallas.

Texas and Paoli, Pennsylvania, 1979.

Schuricht. Herrmann, H i s t o r y of the German E lement i n Virginia, Genealogical Publ ishing Co.. Inc., Bal t imore, 1977.

--- , St. Johannes Evangel ical Lu the ran Church 132nd Anniversary C o m m e m o r a t i v e Booklet.

St. Johannes Evangel ical Luther. Church. St. Clara. West Virginia, October 1984.

Stut ter , Boyd B., "Joseph H. Diss Debar, Prophet. Colonizer," West V i rg in ia Review. Volume IX, December 1931, Charleston. West Virginia.

L e t t e r f r o m Haze l Wysong. A p r i l 25. 1985.

In te rv iew w i t h Haze l Wysong. A p r i l 20. 1985.

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Verba l Boundary D e s c r i p t i o n and J u s t i f i c a t i o n :

Beginning a t t h e p o i n t o f i n t e r s e c t i o n o f County Route 66 w i t h L i t t l e Buck Run a t t h e c u l v e r t / b r i d g e approx imate ly 600 f t . w e s t o f t h e i n t e r s e c t i o n o f Co. R t . 66 and Co. R t . 2 9 , t h e boundary r u n s 1 9 5 f t . i n an e a s t e r l y d i r e c t i o n a l o n g t h e n o r t h bank of L i t t l e Buck Run; t h e n c e nor thward i n a s t r a i g h t l i n e 130 f t . ; t h e n c e westward 3 7 1 f t . i n a s t r a i g h t l i n e ; t h e n c e southward 80 f t . i n a s t r a i g h t l i n e t o a p o i n t of i n t e r s e c t i o n w i t h t h e n o r t h edge of Co. R t . 66; t h e n c e s o u t h e a s t 2 3 0 f t . a l o n g t h e n o r t h edge of Co. R t . 66 t o t h e b r i d g e and p o i n t o f b e g i n n i n g ( s e e r e d l i n e on s k e t c h map).

The boundary was s e l e c t e d t o e n c l o s e t h e farm complex whose components a r e l i n k e d by p lacement and s e t t i n g , t h e f o c a l p o i n t o f which i s t h e Gamsjager House.

GAMSJAGER-WYSONG HOUSE

LITTLE BUCK RUN

ST. CLARA COLONY

DODDRIDGE COUNTY

WEST VIRGINIA

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