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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Taylor County, West Virginia
Adjacent to Taylor County, West Virginia
▶ Barbour County (29) ▶ Harrison County (24) ▶ Marion County (30) ▶ Monongalia County (106) ▶ Preston County (52)
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| On Galloway Road (West Virginia Route 76) south of Barbour Corners, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Barbour County. Formed from Harrison, Lewis and Randolph Counties in 1843. It is named for Philip Pendleton Barbour, distinguished Virginia jurist. The scene of opening hostilities on land between the armies of the North and the South in 1961. . . . — — Map (db m74912) HM |
| On Middletown Road (Local Route 73/73) south of Rock Union Road, on the left when traveling south. |
| | Marion County. Formed, 1842, from Harrison and Monongalia Counties. Named for hero of the Revolution, General Francis Marion. County was home of Francis H. Pierpont, leader in the formation of this State. The Monongahela River forms just above . . . — — Map (db m75098) HM |
| On Walnut Avenue (West Virginia Route 76) near Catcher Street and Simpson Road (County Route 3 & 13), on the left when traveling east. |
| | Named for early settlers. Here Colonel Johnson C. Fleming about 1867 made demonstration of the “glider.” Near here lived Thomas Allen, the messgenger of Wellington at Waterloo. He died here at the age of 107 (4 miles south). — — Map (db m74913) HM |
| On Simpson Road (County Route 13) just west of Local Route 13/21, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Opened on this site in 1865 by Free Will Baptists led by local resident the Reverend F. J. Cather. Chartered by the legislature June 26, 1868. Reverend A.D. Williams became the first president and served until 1870 when he resigned to become . . . — — Map (db m74914) HM |
| On Pike Street (U.S. 50), on the right when traveling east. |
| | 1861 - 1865 Dedicated to the memory of Thornsbury Bailey Brown Co. B. 2nd Va. Vol. Inf. First Union soldier killed in the Civil War. He lost his life on this spot May 22, 1861. Erected May 16, 1928 by Betsy Ross Tent No. 10 West Virginia . . . — — Map (db m4547) HM |
| On North Pike Street (U.S. 50) at Victory Avenue (U.S. 119), on the left when traveling west on North Pike Street. |
| | Great dam built by the United States Government two miles south on the Tygarts Valley River River to control floods in the Monongahela Valley. It is 210 feet high and 1780 feet long. It forms a lake of over 4000 acres, 73 miles around. — — Map (db m75029) HM |
| On West Main Street (U.S. 119) west of St. John Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Grafton was a key transportation hub in Western Virginia. The Northwestern Virginia Railroad went to Parkersburg nearly 100 miles west. At Grafton, the Northwestern Virginia Railroad joined the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O). On the B&O, the . . . — — Map (db m75015) HM |
| On North Pike Street (U.S. 50) at Victory Avenue (Route 119), on the left when traveling west on North Pike Street. |
| | William Robinson preempted Buffalo Flast, site of Grafton, in 1773. Here is the only National cemetery in the State. Former home of John T. McGraw, financier, and Melville Davisson Post, author. Anna Jarvis, founder of Mother’s Day, lived here. — — Map (db m75020) HM |
| On North Pike Street (U.S. 50) at West Wifford Street, on the right when traveling west on North Pike Street. |
| | About 500 graves of early Grafton
settlers, dating 1857-1917, are in
old cemetery located on land given
by Sarah Fetterman to St Augustine
Catholic Church. Headstones include
names of Irish and German emigrants.
Buried here is Thomas McGraw, . . . — — Map (db m75019) HM |
| On West Main Street (U.S. 119) west of St. John Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | West Virginia, born of a nation divided, was the setting for the first campaign of America's Civil War. Although still part of Virginia in 1861, many citizens of the west remained loyal to the Union, rather than the Confederacy. By late May, Union . . . — — Map (db m75013) HM |
| On U.S. 50 at West Virginia Route 310, on the right when traveling west on U.S. 50. |
| | Beauty spot six miles north of the boundary of Taylor and Marion counties where the Tygarts Valley River dashes through a mile-long gorge in a series of lovely falls and rapids. Included in the 1000-acre grant to Thomas Parkeson in 1773. — — Map (db m75017) HM |
| On Shelby Run Road (U.S. 250). |
| | Webster Station was located on the Northwestern Virginia Railroad. Webster was a major supply depot and many warehouses were located here. It also served as a staging area for troops. This was the southernmost station on the railroad. During the . . . — — Map (db m58701) HM |
| On Valley Falls Road (County Route 18) south of U.S. 50, on the left when traveling south. |
| | This is the site of the first Taylor County Jail. After the formation of Taylor County on January 19th, 1844, Pruntytown was named the county seat. A room in the home of Abraham Williams was leased for $1 a month and used as the first jail in Taylor . . . — — Map (db m74924) HM |
| On U.S. 250 at Valley Falls Road (County Route 18), on the left when traveling south on U.S. 250. |
| | The West Virginia Industrial School for Boys was established in 1889 by an act of the Legislature and was formally opened July 21, 1891 for the purpose of training boys commited to the Institution by the courts of West Virginia. — — Map (db m74923) HM |
| On U.S. 50 east of U.S. 250, on the left when traveling west. |
| | To the north stood the birthplace of John Barton Payne (1855–1935), Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of President Woodrow Wilson. From 1921 until his death in 1935, he was chairman of the American Red Cross. — — Map (db m74933) HM |
| On Valley Falls Road (County Route 18) just south of U.S. 50, on the left when traveling south. |
| | Settled by John and David Prunty about 1798. It was county seat, 1844 to 1878. Site of old Rector College. Birthplace of John Barton Payne, Secretary of Interior under Wilson, and head of the American Red Cross. — — Map (db m74929) HM |
| On Simpson Road (County Route 13) near the Simpson Community Park, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Here John Simpson, hunter and trapper, stopped in 1763. He moved on to Clarksburg in 1764. Harrison and Taylor Counties keep alive his memory in the names of Simpson Creek, the town of Simpson and Simpson District. — — Map (db m74915) HM |
| On Webster Pike (Route 119) at Anna Jarvis Lane, on the right when traveling north on Webster Pike. |
| | Born in 1832, in 1858 she organized Mothers' Day Work Clubs in Taylor County to improve sanitation and public health. After the Civil War began, Jarvis united women on both sides of the conflict to care for the sick and wounded. Postwar, she . . . — — Map (db m160691) HM |
| On U.S. 250, on the left when traveling south. |
| | Anna Jarvis was born here, 5-1-1864. Through her efforts President Wilson designated in 1914 the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day. She died 11-24-1948 and was buried in West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. — — Map (db m74918) HM |
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