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'West Virginia was long a part of Virginia.  Morgan  Morgan began the settlement of the region in 1727.  A great battle with the Indians took place at Point Pleasant, 1774.  West Virginia became a separate state of the Union in 1863.'

1. West Virginia Historic Marker Between Monterey, Va. and Durbin, W. Va.

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.

2. Morgan Morgan Marker on State Rt. 73, Between Morgantown and Fairmont, W. Va.