Cohee

Small-farm “Cohees” of the Shenandoah were mainly German and Scotch-Irish. They were industrious, duty-loving, puritanical. Rivalry and antipathy between Tuckahoe and Cohee began early, and still exists today.

Even closer to home, Johnny watches with growing concern the widening gulf between the stable and “civilized” Tidewater inhabitants, the Tuckahoes of Old Virginia, and the settlers of the Appalachian frontier, the Cohees of New Virginia, […]

Like the Cohees of Virginia, Pennsylvanians west of the Alleghenies often viewed their neighbors to the east with suspicion and outright hostility. A federal excise tax provided the flashpoint for 1794's Whiskey Rebellion, and[…]