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Fort Boreman is a historic archaeological site encompassing a Civil War fortification located near Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia. It was built in 1863, by Company A of the 11th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment. It is a series of paired, approximately four foot deep trenches encircling the top of the hill in a zigzag pattern. It was originally built to ensure that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad link between Wheeling and Parkersburg was not severed or commandeered by the Confederate army.[1]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.[2]

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  1. Gail Lynn Walls, Patricia Miller and J.T. Sutton (May 2001). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Fort Boreman". State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. http://www.wvculture.org/shpo/nr/pdf/wood/02001690.pdf. Retrieved 2011-09-15. 
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