Blennerhassett Island
Blennerhassett Island in the Ohio River, near Parkersburg, W.Va. On it Harman Blennerhassett built a mansion and a laboratory for his study. The island was ransacked by the local militia when Aaron Burr 's schemes, with which Blennerhassett was connected, were declared traitorous by President Thomas Jefferson.
Bibliography: See N. F. Schneider, Blennerhassett Island and the Burr Conspiracy (1938).
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