On June 4, 1750, Thomas Lord Fairfax conveyed 400 acres on Lost River in present-day Capon District, Hardy County, to William Warden, on which he later erected Fort Warden.
Learn more:
Deed For Land Conveyed from Lord Fairfax to William
Warden
George Washington's Notes on Survey of William
Warden Lands
"Early Land Grants and Settlers Along Patterson
Creek"
An Example of a Fairfax Land Grant
