History Alive! Thomas Ingles – Cacapon Resort State Park

This presentation is a History Alive! program of the West Virginia Humanities Council. Cacapon Resort State Park will host Doug Wood of Hurricane, WV to portray and stay in character answering all questions as Thomas Ingles. The program is at the campfire circle next to the nature center.

Thomas Ingles straddles two cultures before and after the birth of the United States. Born to a pioneer Virginia couple, William and Mary Ingles, Thomas was captured along with his mother in a frontier raid at the age of four, and was given to a Shawnee family in present-day Ohio to be raised in place of their deceased child. Returning to his birth parents as a Shawnee man at the age of 17, Thomas received a Virginia gentleman’s education and served in the Point Pleasant campaign of Dunmore’s War in 1774-a conflict that pitted his Virginia and Shawnee communities against each other on the battlefield. Conflict with his former Shawnee people continued throughout the Revolutionary War, when he served as a colonel in the Virginia militia.

For more information, please call Cacapon Resort State Park at (304) 258-1022.