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No. They did not use forks until after the civil war.

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Where did Edward's family in twilight live before they lived in Forks?

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The American Civil War. It came at the end of U.S. Grant's Overland Campaign, before the surrender of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.


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