Little Cacapon, West Virginia

Little Cacapon, West Virginia
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 39°30′56″N 78°29′39″W / 39.51556°N 78.49417°W / 39.51556; -78.49417
Country	United States
State	West Virginia
County	Hampshire
Elevation [1]	522 ft (159 m)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
Area code	304
GNIS feature ID	1554961[1]

Little Cacapon is an unincorporated community in Hampshire County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Little Cacapon is located at the mouth of the Little Cacapon River on the Potomac, east of Okonoko. Okonoko-Little Cacapon Road (West Virginia Secondary Route 2/7) and Spring Gap-Neals Run Road (West Virginia Secondary Route 2) converge south of Little Cacapon. Because of its key location at the mouth of the Little Cacapon and on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Little Cacapon played important roles in both the French and Indian and American Civil Wars. Generally pronounced locally /kəˈkeɪpən/ kə-KAY-pən. Sometimes, despite the current spelling of the word (derived from local Native American for "medicine water") some locals say /ˈkeɪpən/ KAY-pən.