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- IDNO:
- 031318
- Title:
- Monongalia County Marker on U. S. Route 19 at the West Virginia and Pennsylvania State Line
- Date:
- 1951
- Description:
- Monongalia County: Found 1776 from District of West Augusta. All or parts of 21 other counties, including three in Pennsylvania were carved from it. Named for the Monongahela River bearing an Indian name, which means the "River of Caving Banks."
- IDNO:
- 031321
- Title:
- Morgan Morgan Marker on State Rt. 73, Between Morgantown and Fairmont, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1951
- Description:
- Morgan Morgan: who was Captain of a Company of Virginia Militia at the opening of the Revolutionary War, is buried one mile North of this spot in the old Harperstown Cemetery. His grave marked by the colonel Morgan Morgan Chapter D. A. R.
- IDNO:
- 031322
- Title:
- Corrick's Ford Marker, Parsons, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1951
- Description:
- Corrick's Ford: After the battles of Philippi, Laurel Hill and Rich Mountain. Gen. R. S. Garnett, new commander of the Confederates, led his army southward through the Tygarts Valley. His force was overtaken at Corrick's Ford, July 13, 1861 defeated and Garnett killed.
- IDNO:
- 031364
- Title:
- Historic Marker in Parsons, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1951
- Description:
- 'Parsons- John Crouch pioneer settler established "tomahawk rights" here in 1766, but the town was not incorporated until 1893. Here Shavers Fork and Blackwater unite to form the Cheat River. Hu Maxwell, the historian, lived near.'
- IDNO:
- 031366
- Title:
- Historic Marker on U.S. Route 50, Grafton, W.Va.
- Date:
- 1951
- Description:
- 'William Robinson preempted Buffalo Flats, site of Grafton,in 1773. Here is only National cemetery in State. Former home of John T. McGraw, financier, and Melville Davisson Post, author. Anna Jarvis founder of Mother's Day, lived here.
- IDNO:
- 031369
- Title:
- Historic Marker in Elkins, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1951
- Description:
- 'Named for Senator Stephen B. Elkins. Home of Senator Henry G. Davis. Headquarters for the Monongahela National Forest. Near site of Friend's Fort, built in 1772. Old Seneca Indian Trail crosses the campus of Davis and Elkins College.'
- IDNO:
- 031374
- Title:
- Jones Raid Marker on U. S. Route 19 at Monogahela and Marion County Line
- Date:
- 1951
- Description:
- 'Over this route through the Monongahela Valley, April 27-29, 1863, Gen. William E. Jones led his division of Gen. John D. Imboden's Confederate army. This raid concluded with the destruction of the oil fields on the Little Kanawha River.'
- IDNO:
- 031379
- Title:
- David Morgan Marker near Rivesville on U. S. Route in Marion County, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1951
- Description:
- 'Near this spot in 1779, David Morgan killed two Indians of whose attack on his two children he had been warned in a strange dream. Morgan lived on a farm on the Monongahela River between Paw Paw and Prickett creeks.'
- IDNO:
- 031381
- Title:
- Toll House Marker Between Wheeling, W. Va. and Washington, Pa. on U. S. Route 40
- Date:
- 1951
- Description:
- 'One of the six original toll houses on the Cumberland or National Road is on the hill a mile and a half SW. Built after the road was turned over to the State by the United States in 1835.'
- IDNO:
- 031383
- Title:
- State of Maryland Historic Marker
- Date:
- 1951
- Description:
- 'Named for Queen Henrietta Maria, the wife of Charles I, who gave a royal charter to Cecil Calvert, second Lord Baltimore, in 1632. First settlement at Saint Mary's City in 1634. It was one of the 13 original colonies.' The marker is between Terra Alta W.Va. and Oakland, Md.
- IDNO:
- 031384
- Title:
- Wilderness Road Marker Between Wheeling, W. Va, and Washington, Pa.
- Date:
- 1951
- IDNO:
- 031385
- Title:
- Zachary Taylor Marker Between Wheeling and New Martinsville, W. Va. on Route 2
- Date:
- 1951
- Description:
- 'General Zachary Taylor, on his way to Washington to be inaugurated the twelfth President of the United States, found his steamer blocked by ice here. He left his boat and completed his trip over the National Pike.'
