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During the Indian wars in the early 1770s, forts were built along rivers from Fort Pitt to West's Fort at Jane Lew. One strong fort, Nutter's Fort, was built in 1772 on Elk Creek. Nearby, by 1780, settlers were building their homes in rectangle patterns for protection on land claimed by Daniel Davisson in 1773. At a meeting, Samuel Shinn suggested naming the settlement Clarksburg after Revolutionary War hero George Rogers Clark. By the end of the Revolution, so many people had settled along the West Fork that the Virginia General Assembly created Harrison County in 1784.
