Martinsburg Berkeley West Virginia United States

The Iroquois Five Nations of New York had penetrated as far as the Tuscarora homeland in North Carolina by 1701, and nominally control the entire frontier territory lying in between.

Following their discovery of a linguistically related tribe living beyond Virginia, they are more than happy to accommodate their distant cousins within the Iroquois Constitution as the "Sixth Nation", and to resettle them in safer grounds to the north. (The Iroquois had driven tribes of rival natives out of Western New York to South Carolina during the Beaver Wars several decades earlier, not far from where the Tuscarora resided.)

Beginning about 1713 after the war, contingents of Tuscarora begin leaving North Carolina for the north.

They establish a main village at present-day Martinsburg, West Virginia, on what is still known as Tuscarora Creek.

A bitter antagonism between workers and the leaders of industry had developed in the wake of the Panic of 1873.

By 1877, ten per cent wage cuts, distrust of capitalists and poor working conditions lead to a number of railroad strikes that prevents the trains from moving.

The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 starts on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, in response to the cutting of wages for the second time in a year by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O).

Striking workers will not allow any of the stock to roll until this second wage cut is revoked.

The governor sends in state militia units to restore train service, but the soldiers refuse to use force against the strikers and the governor calls for federal troops.