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Contestant
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Heritage Dress
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Musician
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General's Wife
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Viewing the Troops
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The Treasure Mt. Festival is Pendleton County's annual celebration of its unique mountain culture. It is a heritage of shared history, customs and dialect, which evolved from the early 1700s, when this area was the frontier wilderness for settlers seeking land. |
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Parade Marshall
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Marching Band
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Queen
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Antique Truck
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Armed and Dangerous
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By the 1800s easier routes westward allowed later settlers to bypass this region, leaving the descendants of the early pioneers to develop their own way of life, largely isolated from outside influences until the early 20th century.
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Apple Butter Man
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Encampment
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Crafts on Display
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Cooking Dinner
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Fort Seybert
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This is how it came to be that even today remnants of old-time culture and traditions can still be found, alive and well, serving to remind us of the ingenuity and communal spirit of our forebears.
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Tractors on Parade
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TMF Official
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Frontier Family
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Pendleton HS Band
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Readying the Cannon
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