“Cacapon” means healing waters, according to a Native American source. If you’ve ever walked along the banks of the Cacapon River,
waded out to fish its cool waters, canoed across its wider reaches or seen the eagles soar about the cliffs at Castle Rock, the ancient
meaning of the word Cacapon becomes a spiritual reality.
The Friends of the Cacapon River
(FCR) is a nonprofit, award-winning watershed organization of volunteers and benefactors working to preserve and protect the waterway
and watershed. Our logo shows an otter, a species reintroduced and now thriving on the river along with beavers and eels, among other
aquatic critters. The Cacapon River is also one of the few habitats for the endangered plant Harperella.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s the River Committee evolved slowly under different names, and in 1992 officially became a 501c3
organization. We work in Morgan and Hampshire counties in the panhandle of West Virginia. The Cacapon flows through these counties
to the Potomac River on its way to the Chesapeake Bay.
Our activities include publication of a Homeowner
Packet, Washington Heritage Trail Maps, and brochures on access sites and Harperella. If you are visiting or would like to visit we
can provide two brochures: A Driving Tour of the Cacapon” and “A Boating Tour of the Cacapon.” Information on other points of interest
and accommodations in the area can be found at the Travel Berkeley Springs website: www.berkeleysprings.com.
OFFICERS 2008
President
- Ron Wilson
Vice President/Treasurer - Abby Chapple
Vice president - Cindy Reiffen
Secretary - Mercedes Tibbits
Friends of the Cacapon River
in West Virginia