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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Monongalia County, West Virginia
Adjacent to Monongalia County, West Virginia
▶ Marion County (30) ▶ Preston County (52) ▶ Taylor County (19) ▶ Wetzel County (9) ▶ Fayette County, Pennsylvania (95) ▶ Greene County, Pennsylvania (24)
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| | Site of Baldwin blockhouse, 1770-1775. Brice and Nathan Worley settled here in 1766. Nathan was killed by Indians in 1777. Laid out as a town in 1829 and lots sold through a lottery. Town is named for David Black, early settler. — — Map (db m73798) HM |
| | Made famous as line between free and slave states before War Between the States. The survey establishing Maryland-Pennsylvania boundary began, 1763; halted by Indian wars, 1767; continued to southwest corner, 1782; marked, 1784. — — Map (db m73800) HM |
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Can you imagine a bustling community here made up of hundreds of people, all with livelihoods centered around this old stone furnace? The Henry Clay Iron Furnace was the fiery heart fueling this small community, and reminds us of our historic . . . — — Map (db m109189) HM |
| | Ice's Ferry was settled by Frederick Ice in 1767. His son Adam, born the same year, was the first white child born in Monongahela Valley. Andrew Ice in 1785 started the first authorized ferry in western Virginia. — — Map (db m73337) HM |
| | Revolutionary Soldier 1780–81. First white child born in West Virginia. Son of Frederick Ice, who hewed these millstones from the adjacent hill, installed them on Buffalo Creek, Barrackville W. Va. in the mill operated by his descendants for . . . — — Map (db m74550) HM |
| | West, in Coopers Rock State Forest, is the Henry Clay cold blast furnace, built 1834-36 by Leonard Lamb. It had capacity of four tons pig iron per day, and furnished employment for 200 people. Sold to Ellicots in 1837. Operated until 1847. — — Map (db m145217) HM |
| | Henry Clay Furnace, located on Quarry Run, was built between 1834 and 1836 by Leonard Laws for Tassey and Bissell. It was a cold-blast furnace and produced 4 tons of pig iron each 24 hours. It was one of several furnaces that were operated in this . . . — — Map (db m74511) HM |
| | The massive pebbly Connoquenessing Sandstone, one of the “Salt Sands”of the driller, forms Coopers Rock. The “Salt Sands” produce oil and natural gas in West Virginia and commercial brines on the Kanawha and Ohio Rivers. — — Map (db m74548) HM |
| | On April 30, 1927, Federal No. 3 Mine exploded, killing at least 97 miners. Nine men inside survived the blast and soon reached safety. Using oxygen breathing apparatus, 21 teams conducted rescue efforts until May 24, containing fires as they went. . . . — — Map (db m74653) HM |
| | [Names not listed]
All Gave Some, Some Gave All — — Map (db m134246) WM |
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In honor of
those who served
[Names not listed] — — Map (db m134247) WM |
| | 1.5 miles south; erected in 1889 by order of Monongalia County Court. Contract awarded to W. A. Loar with Edward W. Brand as superintendent. Stone abutments built by Loar at cost of $198, with wood framework constructed by Wm. and Joseph Mercer at a . . . — — Map (db m73386) HM |
| | Built before the Civil War on land donated by Rufus E. and Elizabeth Conn in 1854, this church was the meetinghouse for congregations of Episcopal, Presbyterian, Methodist Episcopal and Methodist Protestant denominations. It was placed on the . . . — — Map (db m153204) HM |
| | Warrior Branch of the Great Catawba Indian War Path. Here are located the three crossings of Dunkard Creek by Mason and Dixon. Here the Chief of the Six Nations Indians declared that he "would not proceed one step further." Here hostile Shawnees and . . . — — Map (db m73799) HM |
| | Fort Martin was built in 1769 by Colonel Charles Martin. Three settlers were killed and seven captured near the fort in 1779. At the Methodist Episcopal Church here Bishop Francis Asbury preached in 1784. — — Map (db m74599) HM |
| | Seven hundred feet east of this marker is the site of Martins Fort built in 1773 for the protection against the Indians and British. Here in 1779 three settlers were killed and seven were captured by the Indians. — — Map (db m102052) HM |
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Monongalia County
Formed, 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 . . . — — Map (db m69903) HM |
| | From 1933-1942, the young men of the Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) helped lift America out of the Great Depression through hard work and ingenuity. They helped develop and restore our recreation areas and natural resources for the benefit of us . . . — — Map (db m109191) HM |
| | This National Guard unit traces it origins to Capt. Morgan Morgan, who formed the company Feb. 17, 1735. It served with Washington's militia in Braddock's 1755 campaign. At the outset of the Revolution he called upon these fighting men to "drive the . . . — — Map (db m73352) WM |
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Bell
of the
Armored Cruiser
U.S.S. West Virginia
Commissioned: 23 Feb 1905
Decommissioned: 1 Sept 1920
Dedicated to the memory
of those West Virginians
who gave their lives in
the service of their country
by
Alpha Phi Omega . . . — — Map (db m134302) WM |
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| | Brooks Hall, named in honor of Chandler, Fred, Amos, and Alonzo Brooks, originally opened in 1951. Brooks Hall was home to the University's biology department until its relocation into the Life Sciences Building in the fall of 2002. Fall 2007, . . . — — Map (db m134280) HM |
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| | Built in 1893, this building was named for Oliver Perry Chitwood, West Virginia University Professor of History from 1907 to 1946. During that period, his textbook on American colonial history was used throughout the country. The building originally . . . — — Map (db m134295) HM |
| | The Core Arboretum was part of the Krepps Farm until 1948, when West Virginia University purchased land for the Evansdale campus. The WVU Department of Biology manages the 91 acre arboretum as a place for research, study, exercise and quiet . . . — — Map (db m153674) HM |
| | Named for the Monongalia River, Monongalia County was established in 1776. With the formal recognition of the Mason-Dixon line in 1783, it was determined that the first meeting place of the county court actually fell within the borders of . . . — — Map (db m153672) HM |
| | The Buffalo and Mahoning sandstones, the "Dunkard Sands" of the driller, are exposed in the road cuts and merge to form a great cliff at Raven Rock. They produce oil and natural gas in northern and western West Virginia. — — Map (db m73376) HM |
| | Steam driven grist mill, built ca. 1870 by Henry Koontz, could grind 120 bu. of grain daily. Stone burrs were replaced with iron rollers in 1894, improving output and quality, and representing peak technological development for a local flour mill. . . . — — Map (db m117096) HM |
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West Virginia University was chartered by an act of the Legislature on February 7, 1867 and was called the "Agricultural College of West Virginia." In 1868, the name was changed to "West Virginia University." As early as 1867, the liberal arts . . . — — Map (db m134284) HM |
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Elizabeth Moore Hall
Built in 1928
Has Been Placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
By the United States
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m134306) HM |
| | First Pottery. The first pottery in West Virginia was founded here about 1785 and the making of pottery was important before 1800. John Scott, Jacob Foulk, John Thompson, and Francis Billingsley were among the first potters.
Old Iron . . . — — Map (db m157691) HM |
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This property has been
placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m134255) HM |
| | John Pierpont, Revolutionary soldier and the son-in-law of Zackquill Morgan, built a fort in 1769. Washington was his guest in 1784. Here was born Francis H. Pierpont, who played an important part in the formation of West Virginia. — — Map (db m117095) HM |
| | One half mile north of this marker stood the house where George Washington stopped in September 1784 and conferred with leading men of this section “pursuing my inquiries respecting the navigation of the western waters”. Eager to . . . — — Map (db m117094) HM |
| | Members of the Armed Forces who gave their lives in World War II
[Names not listed] — — Map (db m134271) WM |
| | Once part of the Burris farm, site holds a limestone monument to Sarah Morgan Burrows (Burris) erected in 1910 to commemorate a raid on the Morgan homestead near Rivesville by Native Americans, during which her father, frontiersman and French and . . . — — Map (db m154011) HM |
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WVU College of Business
& Economic
1989 - 1998
September 11, 2001
North Tower, World Trade Center
Floor 92
Dedicated By Parents, Jim & Linda Samuel,
Sister, Jennifer Agresto, Girlfriend, Jackie Curcio,
Neice, Mikayla . . . — — Map (db m134253) HM |
| | Born in Monongalia County in 1827, he was a delegate to the First and Second Wheeling Conventions and a member of the Restored Government of Virginia. Appointed colonel of the 7th WV Infantry in 1862, he was wounded at Fredericksburg. In late 1863, . . . — — Map (db m104396) HM |
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This tablet marks the site of
Kerns Fort
erected at
the beginning of Dunmores War
1774 — — Map (db m134267) HM |
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In honor of those citizens
of Monongalia County
who so bravely served
the United States of America
in the Korean Conflict — — Map (db m134273) WM |
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96 John Thornton
First Team All-American - 1998
Played 10 Seasons in the NFL — — Map (db m156542) HM |
| | . . . — — Map (db m156603) HM |
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84 Paul Bischoff
First Time All-American - 1952
66 Chuck Howley
Super Bowl V MVP
NFL All-Pro - 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970
75 Sam Huff
Pro Football Hall of Fame - 1982
. . . — — Map (db m156604) HM |
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32 Garrett Ford Sr.
Southern Conference Player of the Year - 1966
First 1,000-yard rusher in school history
Don Nehlen
College Football Hall of Fame - 2005
Winningest Coach in WVU History (1980 - . . . — — Map (db m156612) HM |
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Bobby Bowden
College Football Hall of Fame - 2006
WVU Head Football Coach (1970 - 75)
15 Jeff Hostetler
Super Bowl XXI and Super Bowl XXV Champion
NFL . . . — — Map (db m156613) HM |
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10 Steve Slaton
Consensus All-American - 2006
Sugar Bowl MVP - 2006
5 Pat White
NCAA Career Rushing Record for Quarterbacks
Big East Offensive Player of the Year - 2007
37 Tom . . . — — Map (db m156615) HM |
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22 Avon Cobourne
WVU Career Rushing Leader - 1999-2002
Four 1,000-Yard Rushing Seasons
48 Willie Drewrey
First-Team All-American - 1984
Three WVU records for all-purpose/return yards . . . — — Map (db m156669) HM |
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32 Aaron Beasley
Consensus All-American - 1995
Football News Defensive Player of the Year - 1995
6 Grant Wiley
Consensus All-American - 2003
Big East Rookie of the Year - 2000
21 Ira Errett Rodgers
. . . — — Map (db m156716) HM |
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20 Russ Meredith
First Team All-American - 1922
12 Oliver Luck
NFL Executive
CoSIDA Academic All-America Hall of Fame - 2000
90 Darryl Talley
College Football Hall of Fame - . . . — — Map (db m157564) HM |
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9 Major Harris
College Football Hall of Fame - 2009
ECAC Player of the Year - 1988, 1989
11 Fred Wyant
Southern Conference Player of the Year - 1954
30-4 record as starting quarterback
42 . . . — — Map (db m157567) HM |
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38 Joe Stydahar
Pro Football Hall of Fame - 1967
College Football Hall of Fame - 1956
10 Marc Bulger
NFL Pro Bowl - 2004, 2007
NFL Pro Bowl MVP - 2004
44 Jim . . . — — Map (db m157690) HM |
| | Completed in 1870, Martin Hall is West Virginia University's oldest building. It was named for the Reverend Alexander Martin, the University's first president from 1867 to 1875. The building was extensively renovated in 1976-77. — — Map (db m134297) HM |
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Mast of the battleship
West Virginia
1923 - 1946
A tribute
to her gallant crew and
to all West Virginians
who have served our
country in the Armed
Forces — — Map (db m134301) WM |
| | Built in 1913 and 1914 under the direction of U.S. Department of Treasury Supervising Architect Oscar Wenderoth and at a cost of $97,000, this cut stone and marble Neoclassical structure housed the U.S. Postal Service and federal agencies in . . . — — Map (db m16098) HM |
| | Monongalia County was established in 1776 from the Virginia District of West Augusta and named for the Monongahela River. When the Mason Dixon line was formally recognized in 1783, officials determined that the first meeting place of the county . . . — — Map (db m117097) HM |
| | In memory of Monongalia's sons “They fought for the freedom of others.”
In memory of “Our Sons” who fought for the freedom of the world, 1917-1918
In memory of “Our Women” who sacrificed for the freedom . . . — — Map (db m117099) HM |
| | In memory of those 201st Infantry Veterans through our history from February 17, 1735 as frontier militia who defended their homes and families with honor through the George Washington campaign of 1754, the Braddock campaign of 1755, Battle of Point . . . — — Map (db m134319) HM |
| | On April 20, 1863, Confederate Gens. William E. “Grumble” Jones and John D. Imboden began a raid from Virginia through present-day West Virginia on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Taking separate routes, they later reported that they . . . — — Map (db m117118) HM |
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Oglebay Hall
built in 1918
Has Been Placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
By the United States
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m134305) HM |
| | Oldest stone house in Monongalia County. By legend built by Jacob Nuze on original lot 25. Sold 1795 to tavern-keeper Henry Dering. Owned 1800 - 1813 by potters John Thompson and Jacob Foulk. Bought by Joseph Shackelford who operated a tanyard here . . . — — Map (db m64090) HM |
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Honoring
Orville Sebastian Eberly
1900-1983
Founder of The Eberly Foundation
Uniontown, Pennsylvania
Coal Industry Entrepreneur
Geologist Banker
Community and Civic Leader
Philanthropist
Resident of Pennsylvania . . . — — Map (db m134279) HM |
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Commander, U.S. Navy
September 11, 2001
Pentagon
Dedicated By
Elizabeh Hinkle, Sister
of Buchannon
& Thomas O'Neill, Nephew,
of Morgantown — — Map (db m134252) WM |
| | Martin Hall, home of the Perley Isaac School of Journalism since 1953, was completed in 1870, three years after West Virginia University was chartered. The Reverend Alexander Martin, the University's first president, had an office in the building . . . — — Map (db m134292) HM |
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Purinton House
Built in 1904 - 1905
Has Been Placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
By the United States
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m156325) HM |
| | In 1891, a small group of glass-making artisans from Seneca County, Ohio, founded the Seneca Glass Company. For almost 100 years, Seneca Glass Companys highly skilled craftspeople manufactured glassware and exquisitely etched lead crystal by hand, . . . — — Map (db m74624) HM |
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Stewart Hall
(Old Library Building)
Built in 1902
Has Been Placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
By the United States
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m134307) HM |
| | The rail-trail you are standing on today exists not only because trains because trains rumbled through here in the past, but because this corridor may be needed for trains in the future. In 1983, the U.S. Congress amended the National Trails System . . . — — Map (db m134251) HM |
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To the patriots
of the American Revolution
who went from Monongalia County
and to those
who lie buried in the county
this stone is placed
as a loving tribute
to their courage and valor
by the
Daughters of
the American . . . — — Map (db m134270) WM |
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In honor
of those
who served
— — Map (db m134324) WM |
| | [Top left plaque:]
Doris "Dorie" Miller
First African American Hero of WWII
In Recognition of Extraordinary
Courage in Battle
Aboard the U.S.S. West Virginia
Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941
[Bottom left . . . — — Map (db m134304) HM WM |
| | In memory of the members of
General Daniel Morgan Post No. 548
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S.A.
who gave their lives in service
in World War II
George C. Phillips
John J. Luteman
Clarence Prager
Barton W. Core
James W. . . . — — Map (db m14088) HM |
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In honor of those citizens
of Monongalia County
who served our country
with utmost dedication and bravery
in the Vietnam Conflict
— — Map (db m134274) WM |
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Walters House
Erected 1900-1901
National Historic Place
National Register of Historic Places
United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m134278) HM |
| | Founded by the Legislature on February 7, 1867 as the Agricultural College of West Virginia under terms of the Federal Land-Grant Act of 1862. On December 4, 1868, the name was changed to West Virginia University. — — Map (db m74626) HM |
| | Founded by the Legislature on February 7, 1867, as the Agricultural College of West Virginia under terms of the Federal Land-Grant Act of 1862. On December 4, 1868, the name was changed to West Virginia University. — — Map (db m114316) HM |
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Through the hospitality of the
Board of Governors, President & Faculty
of the
West Virginia University
irreplaceable books and
herbarium specimens
belonging to
The New York Botanical Garden
were graciously given shelter in . . . — — Map (db m134317) HM |
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Willey House
Built 1839-40, this example of Neo Classical architecture served as the home of prominent WV statehood leader and US Senator, Waitman T. Willey. Noted for being the first home in Morgantown to have running water, . . . — — Map (db m153641) HM |
| | For the first 22 years, West Virginia University was an all-male institution.
In 1889, 10 brave women enrolled as degree candidates.
In 1891, one of these women, Hariet Eliza Lyon, graduated first in her class.
One-hundred years . . . — — Map (db m134282) HM |
| | Woodburn Circle, comprised of Martin Hall, Woodburn Hall, and Chitwood Hall, is the historic center of West Virginia University. The name Woodburn was selected by Reverend John R. Moore, principal of the Monongalia Academy and later superintendent . . . — — Map (db m134285) HM |
| | The name Woodburn derives directly from Woodburn Female Seminary, which occupied this site before the university was established in 1867. Woodburn means grove of trees and it described the rove of beech trees which once covered the area. Completed . . . — — Map (db m134281) HM |
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In honor of
those men and women of Monongalia County
who served our country during
World War I — — Map (db m134268) WM |
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1917 - 1919
In memory of Monongalia Co., W. VA.
Soldiers, Sailors and Marines who
gave their lives in the World War.
[Names not listed] — — Map (db m134272) WM |
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In memory of those who so
bravely served our country
During World War II — — Map (db m134269) WM |
| | Founder Of Morgantown — — Map (db m155584) HM |
| | Frontier narratives record many hostilities between settlers and Native Americans. One account states Mrs. Bozarth, in a hand-to-hand fight, armed with axe only, killed three men during a 1779 attack on her cabin at the Dunkard Creek settlement. — — Map (db m1031) HM |
| | Branch of Warrior Trail of the Great Catawba Indian War Path located here where Mason and Dixon Survey crossed Dunkard Creek for third time. Guide, Six Nations Indians chief, declared he “would not proceed one step further,” because . . . — — Map (db m1044) HM |
| | Scotts Run
Veterans
Memorial
( left panel )
The Purseglove Community Honor Roll
The following names were listed on the original program of the honor roll dedication of Sept. 16, 1945
( 325 names are listed )
( . . . — — Map (db m114686) WM |
| | Scotts Run By the 1930s 10,000 residents representing 28 nationalities and tied to the coal industry crowded the hillsides, victims of severe poverty brought on by a coal recession and Great Depression. "The Shack" and Scotts Run Settlement . . . — — Map (db m50473) HM |
| | Honor Roll
Star City, W.Va.
In Honor Of
Those Who Have Served and Are Serving
In the Armed Forces of the
United States of America
World War II
Anderson, Ralph R. · Anderson, David C. · Audia, Frank A. · Audia, Louis P. · Audia, Thomas . . . — — Map (db m114667) WM |
| | It was here in Star City that John F. Kennedy announced his intention to enter the West Virginia primary as a candidate for the Presidency of the United States. This decision was motivated by deep concerns within his party that a Roman Catholic . . . — — Map (db m114665) HM |
| | WV
Star City
In Honor
Of All
Star City
Veterans
Past
Present
Future
Dedicated
May 30, 2011 — — Map (db m114664) WM |
| | The oldest denomination of Christians west of the mountains on the Waters of the Cheat and Monongahela Rivers in the Commonwealth of Virginia (now West Virginia).
First meeting house erected of logs on the highest point in the graveyard near . . . — — Map (db m74598) HM |
| | William Stewart settled here in 1771. Northeast was Fort Dinwiddie. Forks of Cheat Baptist Church was organized here, 1775, by John Corbley, the pioneer minister, whose family was massacred later by the Indians. — — Map (db m74597) HM |
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