They got me the license for to keep the caff and I'm going to keep the caff. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town Stephen Leacock. Then at night there was a big oyster supper in Smith's caff, with speeches, and the Mariposa band outside. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town Stephen Leacock.
A quiet farming center in 1860, the population of the Moorefield area at that time was about 1,500. At this period there were no bridges at Moorefield, and the South Branch had to be forded some three miles (5 km) up the Valley, or the ferryboat, which was usually busy, had to be used.
The men most likely volunteered at Moorefield in Hardy County and then marched north to Cumberland, Maryland. Approximately 1,200 of the 12,950 men under Morgan's command came from the area that would later become West Virginia.   Not only in a material way were the people of the county developing wealth but in an even more important way did they continue to advance.